Author: London Art College
Welcome to this weeks challenge and it is ‘Oh so quiet’….! We would like you to try to capture the theme of peace and quiet. Not an easy challenge, so we are looking forward to seeing what you all come…
Welcome to our weekend art challenge results with things and subjects all beginning with the letter E! We have had some very Elegant Elephants…and some Eggcelent Eggs! So many stunning paintings and drawings this week. Well done especially to our…
Here are my first-ever attempts with acrylics! I loved the colour mixing and working with paints with a completely different texture to the water colours. I found it much easier to work with them with the water – using them…
After a lot of deliberation I managed to come up with this painting of the red pepper/ onion and white garlic. I am still using my favourite paper Fluid 100 hot press 140lb/300gsm 12” x 16” because I feel comfortable…
Student Helen Walton has just completed our Beginners Drawing Course and she created some really lovely drawings for her final set. We have also added some text from Helen too and we hope that students enjoy reading it. Hands –…
Welcome to our Alphabet Challenge. Every month we will have a new letter of the alphabet and students can draw or paint anything as long as it is beginning with that letter. This month its the turn of ‘E’. Think…
Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge results. This week we asked our students to paint or draw anything on the theme of Ireland. We have received some amazing paintings this week, incredible in fact. Student Bhawna Sinha’s landscape artwork…
Student Peter Barnett completed these pieces of artwork for the Oil Painting Course tutored by Alan Dedman. Peters work is very varied and the course has allowed him to experiment with different painting techniques and subjects as you can see…
Wendy Harknet has submitted two wonderful paintings for her Botanical Coloured Pencil Course and we have added them below along with the text that goes along side. It explains how Wendy went about creating the artwork for her Hellebore and…
Danielle Kantola completed our Watercolour course and these paintings are from her last set. Daniel explains a little about them in her text below. We wish Danielle the very best of luck in her future watercolour painting, we are sure…
Student Thakur Balbeer Singh suggested that we have a set of challenges based on places around the world. Kind of like a world tour! We thought it was great idea and a good chance to for our students to not…
Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge which this month was one of our colour theme challenges. This month it was – create a painting using the colours Orange & Green, keeping as close to those two colours as possible….
Student John Peace created these two paintings on our Still Life course with tutor Alan Dedman. John set the objects up in his home, and painted them from life. Drawing and painting from life is often the best way if…
Catriona Henderson has just passed the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course with a Distinction! Tutor Paul weather said Catriona was … “a hard working lady and a pleasure to teach!” We are thrilled for Catriona and wish her all the…
For the exercise I used my own gerbil as a model. I thought it would be fun to make a tower of naughty gerbils working together as a team. Or are they? I used 4B pencil and watercolour. For Fiery…
Laura-Inès contacted the college from the National Portrait Gallery regarding their photography competition, the National Portrait Gallery’s annual Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2021. Open to all, this leading international competition celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait…
Welcome to our Colour Challenge. Every month we provide a new colour challenge whereby students can draw or paint anything they would like, as long as it is within those colours. This month it is ‘Orange and Green’! These two…
Welcome to the amazing results of our latest art challenge. We are absolutely delighted with the response to this weeks theme. We were not expecting students to accompany photos of themselves with their abstract portraits, however It was so wonderful…
Steven has just completed the Drawing and Painting Diploma course with a Distinction which is great news. Paul Weaver said that “He put a lot of effort into his studies and really improved as he worked through the course which was great to…
Today’s blog post is another amazing watercolour called ‘The Himalayan Lotus’ by student Dilnawaz Tarapore who is studying on our watercolour course with tutor Ida Mitrani.
Student Catherine Verdoene is working with Ida Mitrani on the Botanical Coloured Pencil course and has produced some beautiful illustrations which we have been able to showcase below. Catherine’s artwork is exquisite and we hope that our students find her…
Welcome to this weeks art challenge! A lot of creativity is required for this one! We would like for you to create an abstract self portrait. Whther you take a selfie first and work from that or draw or paint…
Welcome to our weekend challenge results for our theme – Holiday / Vacation! This has evoked some wonderful memories of holidays that students once took – and will of course again soon. We can see that there have been many…
Some topical cartoons from student Sam Lee who has recently completed the Cartooning Diploma Course with tutor John Byrne. If you are interested in learning how to create cartoon similar to this – or if you have a style of…
Today’s blog post shows the most beautiful watercolour painting called ‘ Blossoms’ by student Dilnawaz Tarapore who is studying on our watercolour course with tutor Ida Mitrani. We are absolutely delighted to showcase Dilnawaz’s artwork here and look forward to…
Mark making and being inspired by a favourite artist by student Sarah Jay. This piece is called Alone from both photographs and imagination. Staedler fine nib pens and white paper around A3 size. Very much about mark making in the…
Student Elizabeth Robinson has chosen the theme for this weeks art challenge. It is to remember back to your favourite holiday and try to illustrate it, whether it was from a few years ago, or perhaps one that you remember…
Welcome to our weekend art challenge, all centred around the letter D. We challenged our students to draw or paint any subject or object starting with the letter D. We have had some amazing submissions which you can see below….
Student Emily Gigg has just submitted her first set of work in the Illustration Diploma course. Tutor Steven Hersey was absolutely delighted with her work and is very much looking forward to seeing more from her and helping her achieve…
Botanic Gardens Conservation International has opened an illustration and photography competition for a chance to be on the cover of the Global Tree Assessment, the first-ever conservation assessment of all the world’s known tree species. Enter your best illustration or photo…
My name is Julie. I picked up coloured pencils a few years ago to do pet portraits after purely doing them in acrylics. I am doing this course to go back to scratch, improve my drawing skills and learn how…
Welcome to our latest Alphabet Challenge. If you have been following our blog for a while, you will know that once a month we set our students an alphabet challenge whereby they can draw or paint anything beginning with a…
Welcome to the results of our weekend challenge – your home, inside or out. We feel that this has enabled us to get to know our students a little more. To be able to see views from kitchen windows, back…
I have loved all kinds of art since my school days and when I took early retirement 2 years ago I decided to try my hand at the LAC Drawing and Painting course to see if I could improve things.The…
Student Michael Masson has created a number of stunning paintings during the time he has been studying with the London Art College. Below is a lovely collection of paintings he completed whilst on the Painting and Drawing Diploma Course. Such…
I retired four years ago having spent the previous thirty five teaching in a Special School. The children I worked with learnt most successfully when information was presented in a visual form so I spent many hours adapting materials and…
Welcome to our latest art challenge all about ‘home’. Let us know what home means to you in picture form. You might like to paint or draw the outside of your house, perhaps there is a a special place inside…
Welcome to the results of this weekends art challenge where the theme was to paint or create artwork on the theme of Purple and Yellow. We have received some amazing pieces of artwork this week and such happy spring like…
Student Eva Chen has been creating some amazing pieces of artwork for her assignments on the Illustration course with tutor Steven Hersey. They are all so wonderfully laid out with text and we really hope that our students enjoy reading…
I have completed the colour pencil course, it was hard work but satisfying and enjoyable.I enjoyed drawing the variety of subjects and receiving constructive advice from my tutor, I feel my pictures have improved owing to my tutors advice and…
My name’s Anastasiia and I just finished my drawing and pencil course. I found the London Art College online when I was searching on purpose some drawing courses to become an art adventurer. The course for sure helped me to…
Welcome to our Colour Challenge. Each month we provide a new colour challenge whereby students can draw or paint anything they would like, as long as it is within those colours. This month it is ‘Yellow and Purple’! We understand…
Welcome to this weeks results from the art challenge – Family. It stirred plenty of emotions this week and I think you will see from the images below we have some wonderful family paintings and drawings to view. Also some…
Art had finished for me when I left school. Now retired I have been lucky enough to travel and see some wonderful things. However, our last cruise in March 2019 went disastrously wrong off the coast of Norway. Having survived…
A big thank you to Monika Cilmi, my tutor on the coloured pencils course. I have finally finished my amazing journey. The support and encouragement she gave me has inspired me to book onto the illustrations course. Plus Monika gave…
I tried a lot of subjects in the Illustration Diploma Course. I think each topic is interesting, such as drawing comics based on text, creating picture books, or creating illustrations of your own choice of lyrics. In my opinion, the…
Sadly the well known and much loved illustrator Victor Ambrus passed away recently at the age of 85. Victor was a Hungarian-born British illustrator of history, folk tales, and animal story books. He was also well known for his appearances on the TV…
Welcome to our latest challenge and this weeks theme is ‘Family’. What does family mean to you? Try to convey this on paper or canvas – or digitally. In any form. Let us know why you have created the artwork…
Welcome to our weekend challenge results from the Alphabet Letter C Challenge. What a challenge! We have received a phenomenal amount of pieces of artwork and we really hope that you enjoy viewing them all below. Our feature images this…
Student Alyson Fairchild is working on our Beginners Drawing Course with tutor Steven Hersey. Steven was extremely impressed with Alyson’s artwork and so we have added some of her drawings below. We love her detailed pen and ink work especially….
Sue Harper is a new student to the London Art college and has recently enrolled on our Coloured Pencil Art Course. She has just completed her first set of artwork, a few of which you can see below. Tutor Monika…
Student Robyn Hoskins has created two amazing illustrations for her set 5 work for the Illustration Diploma Course. Tutor Steven Hersey was particularly impressed with them and asked if we could show them here on our blog. We were delighted…
Welcome to our Alphabet Challenge. Every month we will have a new letter of the alphabet and students can draw or paint anything as long as it is beginning with that letter. Students need to get creative with anything beginning…
Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge – Under the sea. What a colourful challenge this has turned out to be. We absolutely love all of the artwork created this weekend, so much work has gone into them,, everyone should…
Student Benjamin Magesh has just completed the Portrait Painting course with flying colours and passed with a distinction. We have added Benjamin’s final set of paintings below and we know that you are going to be hugely impressed with his…
At the beginning of lockdown in March 2020 my 94-year-old mother had come to live with me. I was looking for something that we could do together and came up with drawing and / or painting. Although my mother did…
Some images have come to light on Facebook regarding a student from 1954! Salvu Scerri signed up for our Press Drawing course and you can see a photo of him below, along with the letter and part of the course…
This challenge has been suggested by student Maria Moon. We love this idea and we hope that the photos below prove to be a good source of inspiration to you all. Draw or paint anything that lives under the sea…
Welcome to our weekend art challenge which was based on the theme of the colours Red and Black. We set the students the task to try to create artwork only using the colours red and black. There can be other…
Illustrating Children’s Book student Cheryl Day has completed two stunning pieces of artwork for her first set of artwork. Tutor Maggy Roberts was delighted with them both and asked for them to appear on our college news blog. We have…
My favourite watercolour artists are Ann Mortimer and Geoff Kersey, I do really like their evocative realism style of painting, but I also love Hazel Soan’s loose style. For this assignment, I made a painting that depicts a group of…
London Art College student Olga Polianska has very kindly written about her artwork below. Olga studied on our Painting & Drawing Diploma Course and passed with a Distinction with tutor Paul Weaver. Lake:This work is inspired by the unusual shades…
Discover the entire Bayeux Tapestry following online the 70 meter-long embroidered canvas which tells the story of the conquest of England in 1066. Official digital representation of the Bayeux Tapestry – 11th century. Credits: City of Bayeux, DRAC Normandie, University of…
Welcome to our Colour Challenge. Each month we provide a new colour challenge whereby students can draw or paint anything they would like, as long as it is within those colours. This month it is ‘red and black’! We understand…
Welcome to our weekend challenge all about ‘Australia’. Thank you to Thakur Balbeer Singh who suggested we have a set of challenges all about travelling the world and so we started with Australia. You can see Thakur watercolour painting of a…
The ‘Australia’ prompt for this weekend’s challenge brought a welcome opportunity for me to look back in time. Since my retirement three years ago, and until travel was halted by the global pandemic, I divided my time between Cornwall, UK,…
Pet Portrait student Jenny Pulford has completed her set 5 artwork for the Diploma course and we have added some of it below for you all to see. Jenny has very cleverly taken three separate photos, one each of her…
Student Rob Pilsworth created both of these wonderful paintings while studying on our Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. Rob’s style of painting is superb and our art course allowed him to develop his style and given him time to work…
Tatjana Tarasenko is studying our Oil Painting Course with tutor Alan Dedman. The following pieces are from one of Tatjana’s recent sets of artwork and you can follow her text about experimenting with a pallet knife along with viewing the…
I was a complete beginner before taking this course, sketching in pencil for fun. I wanted to improve but I struggled to know what to do to reach the next level. I had no structure to my practice and only…
Fiery Fred in watercolour and Indian ink. Felt pens. Paper – Opus cold pressed watercolour paper. Mother always said a dragon should never burp in public. Now Fred knew why. “I think I can smell smoke,” the villager said as…
Although doing art at ‘A’ Level, I only started doing art again when I retired. Initially I started with pastels but have now progressed to using coloured pencils which are far less messy. My strong point is drawing and therefore…
Student Thakur Balbeer Singh suggested that we have a set of challenges based on places around the world. Kind of like a world tour! We thought it was great idea and a good chance to for our students to, not…
Welcome to this months Alphabet Challenge for the letter B. You can see how much fun our students have had this weekend and what great challenges these are turning out to B! 🙂 Our feature image is shared by Sarah…
The following is by student Anne-Sophie Laugier who has recently sent in her final assignment for the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma Course with tutor Maggy Roberts… I chose to do the exercise digitally, because it was easier for me to…