Author: London Art College

As a warm-up challenge for my final Watercolour Course Assignment I decided to re-do the paintings that were, in my view, a milestone/watershed moment in this year’s watercolour journey. These being the Mushrooms from assignment #3 and Braye Bay beach…

Student Beckie Andrews has chosen this weeks theme for our weekend challenge. Magical or Mythical Creatures! We have scoured the internet and have only come up with one photo of a unicorn pictured below. So we feel that students are…

Welcome to the results of our latest weekend art challenge where we asked our students to create artwork only using sepia colours. This was a pretty challenging, challenge! It’s not easy to create artwork using only brown tones, whilst still…

The following pastel painting was the final piece created by student Dianne Pike for her Pet Portrait Diploma Course. Dianne wrote the following about her artwork and also a thank you to Gayle for helping her during the course. We…

Student Susan Cardozo is working on the Still Life Drawing and Painting Course with tutor Alan Dedman. Two very interesting paintings Susan created were of her shed tools, one in daylight and one in moonlight. Different lighting and different colours…

Mari-Ann has just completed the course with a DISTINCTION. She worked diligently through the course and produced some sensitive work, her pencil studies are particularly good. Tutor Paul Weaver NovemberFor this picture I sat down and used Daniel Smith watercolors to…

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 ‘Sepia’! If you are unsure…

Welcome to our weekend art challenge where we asked our students to create a painting, drawing or collage on the theme of water sports! We have received some spectacular artwork this week along with such happy and playful pieces too….

Jane Tivey created this fantastic drawing of fruit for one of her exercises on the Pastel Painting course. Jane explains about the artwork below, we hope that our students find it informative and helpful. I chose to do fruit for…

I am a fine artist who paints in oils. I chose to have no formal art college education but I studied Art History at the School of Oriental and African studies, University of London. It was during this time when…

I have a passion for art and was looking for a structured course to help me learn. The pandemic presented an opportunity for me to enroll and study at LAC. LAC’s course helped me to study and think. The study…

Student Oksana Lupych has created her final set of work for the oil painting course and we have added a selection fo paintings below for our students to view. Oksana has explained a little about her paintings and also a…

Our latest challenge was devised by student Latha Bhaduri Prabakar and we loved the idea of a sports theme for our weekend challenge. To make it a little more challenging, we have narrowed it down a little more to Water…

Welcome to the results for this weekend art challenge. So many wonderful pieces of artwork and so many variations on the theme. Our featured image this week is by Student Eve Warren – we love the idea of turning Fingerprints…

The old barn was part of my third assignment for the coloured pencil course.  This was my choice for a building which I felt would also demonstrate perspective, the sky also was a challenge but once started I had to…

Set 3 Assignments- Coloured Pencil Course – written by student Jennifer Parry  Portrait – I decided to try pastelmat for this piece and even though I am not pleased with the outcome, I am really pleased with the amount I…

Every month we have an Alphabet challenge and this month it is the turn of letter ‘F’. Students are challenged to draw or paint anything, as long as it begins with the letter F.. Why not try to illustrate a…

Welcome to this weeks art challenge where we set our students the task of creating a painting or drawing of any subject using only the colours ‘Blue and White. Perhaps it sounds a simple challenge however once you start, it’s…

Portrait Painting student Yulia Kerme has completed her set 3 assignments and we wanted to include a few of her paintings here for everyone to see. They are absolutely beautiful and we love to see the in progress style photos…

Student Daniel Hall has been creating some amazing work on the Illustration Diploma course and we have added a few of his pieces below. We love the chickens especially! We would like to wish Daniel all the best for his…

Student Sean Cocker has been working on the Botanical Coloured Pencil Course with tutor Ida Mitrani and these pieces are from Sean’s final set. Ida was delighted with Seas work, and gave him an excellent critique and help to send…

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 ‘Blue and White’! These two…

Welcome to the Mermay results of this weeks art challenge. WOW! They are all absolutely wonderful and we are so thrilled to see them. So many variations in medium and style! Our feature image is by student Nina Colva who…

I have always been drawn to art, but for some odd reason it took until nearly three years ago for me to take the passion seriously. I would often find myself doodling small characters or monsters in the corner of…

London Art College student Debbie Davidge is currently working on our Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. Her artwork below is absolutely superb and Debbie explains both below…. The Evacuee Child, A4, is from an Assignment, done in Indian ink and…

Lynne has just completed the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course with a distinction, her drawings are particularly strong with excellent shading. Lynne carries this understanding of tone into her paintings as well. We hope that you enjoy viewing them all below.

Do you have a love of Manga and everything kawaii? Would you love to learn how to create your own original Chibi characters from scratch?  If you are jumping in your seat with excitement, this is the course for you!  Our…

What is Mermay? MerMay is a month-long celebration of creativity, community and above all… MERMAIDS.Every day in May people are drawing mermaids or subjects around the mermaid theme and so this week we thought it would be great to follow…

Welcome to our weekend art challenge results for our Peace and Quiet challenge. We have been very relaxed this week watching all of the lovely peaceful artwork appear on our facebook group and in our inbox. Some very beautiful and…

Rachel has just completed the course with a very well deserved distinction and tutor Paul Weaver was thrilled with all of the work she completed throughout the course. Rachel completed the Drawing and Painting diploma and we wish her the…

I felt this was a difficult assignment, except perhaps the Japanese technique where open lines and simplified shapes are used.  Mastering ink painting is a long term process and feel I have a long way to go before I get…

We haven’t featured any botanical students here for a while and so today we have some amazing and very delicate artwork by student Georgine Somer. Each piece she has created is absolutely stunning and we hope that you enjoy viewing…

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…