Author: London Art College

Victoria Westmacott-Wrede has created a beautiful set of watercolour fruit and veg for one of her assignments on the Botanical painting course. She explains below how she painted each one and the colours she used. We thought that would students…

London Art College student Elizabeth Taylor has been working on the Landscape Diploma Course with tutor Alan Dedman and has created some wonderful landscape paintings and drawings for one of her assignments. Elizabeths delicate and precise drawing and sketching skills…

We have a wonderful blog post today by student Jane Tivey. She wrote a wonderful accompaniment to her artwork which we have added some of below. We hope that it gives our students and readers an understanding of how Jane…

Welcome to this weekends art challenge – and what a challenge this week. Tigers! We have collated some magnificent photos for you to work with below which are all copyright free. Alternatively if you have your own photos you are…

Welcome to the beautiful results of our latest weekend art challenge – all about butterflies! Our students have excelled themselves this week and created some very delicate and colourful paintings and drawings. Well done to everyone who took part! Our…

Rebecca Friend is working with tutor Gayle Mason on the Pet Portrait Diploma Course and here are a couple of Rebeccas pieces from the first and second sets of artwork. We love the oil painting and you can read more…

Sarah Briggs has created two wonderful illustrations for her first set of work for the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. We have added them below for you to study. The double page spread illustration gives lots of detail and interest…

Benjamin Magesh has completed the third assignment on the Portrait Painting and Drawing Course and also included some progression shots of the portraits. We absolutely love receiving candid photos by students and we hope you enjoy viewing these of Benjamin…

Welcome to our newest weekend art challenge! This week we would love for you to get creative using the theme butterflies. We have added some beautiful copyright free photos below if you would like to use those. They are full…

Welcome to a beautiful selection of Northern Lights artwork from our recent weekend art challenge. We have received some stunning and very creative artwork from our students this week. Our featured image today was created by student Rebecca Blake and…

We have added a variety of pieces of artwork today from student Madhavi Yelnurkar who has been working on the Drawing & Painting Diploma Course with tutor Paul Weaver. Madhavi’s artwork is wonderful and we hope that you enjoy viewing…

Steve Giles is currently working with tutor Gayle Mason on the Pet Portraits Diploma Course. He created these two portraits for his set 4 assignments. One exercises was to add a dog within a scenic background and the other was…

Student Oksana Lupych has just completed the Watercolour Diploma Course and tutor Ida Mitrani was thrilled with Oksana’s artwork. She requested for it to be added here on our blog for fellow students to view. We are thrilled to be…

Welcome to this weekends art challenge. Some of you reading this will have been lucky enough to see the Northern Lights in real life. Others will have admired the phenomenon from photos and tv. We would love for you to…

Welcome to our weekend art challenge all about fairies! We are absolutely delighted with the results of the art challenge this week. Our students have created a wonderful array of artwork, including an incredible lino cut and print from student…

Karen Bruce completed our Watercolour Diploma Course and produced these stunning paintings for some of her assignments. The colours Karen used are so fresh and vibrant. We particularly love the eye and ear studies that she has completed with some…

London Art College student Sidney Pletschke is working with tutor Steven Hersey on our Illustration Diploma Course. Steven was particularly impressed with Sydney’s assignment, part of which we have added below for our students to view. Steven said….. Sidney produced…

Welcome to our beautiful collages of birds by student Sara Roberts who is studying the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. Tutor Maggy was thrilled with Sara’s main collage and felt it would be a great addition to the blog to…

Welcome to this weekends art challenge. We would love for you to get creative with an etherial feel this week within the theme of fairies. The challenge is quite open, interpret it how you would like. We have added some…

Welcome to this weeks art challenge results from the theme ‘Summer’! This theme has generated some amazing pieces of artwork, our students have been very creative in expressing what summer means to them. Our featured image today is by Pet…

When I first read the assignment and when I looked at the various works done by students, Sebastian’s Sink City felt like a real challenge. I had never drawn or painted house-cleaning products and I was wondering how I would…

Student Linda Carluschi is taking the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma Course and completed this beautiful illustration for the Fiery Fred Assignment. Linda said… I studied for five years and worked as a graphic designer for six years. I started to…

Student Yun-Ting Hsieh is currently working on our Illustration Diploma Course with tutor Steven Hersey. Steven was thrilled with Yun-Ting’s preliminary drawings and final painting which you can see below. We have also added some of the text that Yun-Ting…

LAC TUTOR PAUL WEAVER HAS HAD 2 PAINTINGS SELECTED FOR THE ARTIST EXHIBITION – NOW OPEN! Although the Patchings Festival, featuring ‘The Artist’ and ‘Leisure Painter’ Open Competitions, could not take place this year, the good news is that the competition still…

Welcome to this weekends art challenge! We would like you to create a piece of artwork on the theme of ‘Summer’. It can be anything from a warm sunny beach scene, a picnic on the grass, children playing in the…

Welcome to the results of the weekends art challenge. We challenged our students this week to all look up to the sky and portray what they saw. We have received a huge number of stunning paintings, drawings, photos and digital…

I am using Strathmore Bristol smooth and a mechanical pencil and also b and 2b pencils. My first sheet shows a common Ivy : Hydera Helix and I choose a mature shiny leaf. Also on this sheet is a young…

Student Maria Ei Zar has created a beautiful study of a lobster and has sent us photos of the painting in stages for us to see. She has also shown where her easel is set up along with her paint…

I remember submitting my first assignment for the Illustration Course, I was so nervous. I had never studied art before, and I didn’t know what to expect. I come from a background in which art is seen as a waste…

Welcome to our weekend challenge and today it is all about sky and clouds. We all have access to look up at some point in the day wherever you are in the world. Whether is is a beautiful blue sky,…

Welcome to the results of this weeks art challenge on the theme of Wild Flowers. We knew that this would be a popular theme, however we didn’t realise how much enjoyment you would all gain from this wonderful subject. You…

I have enrolled in the Digital Illustration course (a gift from my husband), in the hopes of expanding my artistic style as well as learning about the technical aspects of drawing digitally.  Although I come with some experience (well self…

Two stunning illustrations today by student Layla Ewen who is studying the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course with tutor Maggy Roberts. We not only love her very three dimensional Fiery Fred painting, but we adore Laylas frog lazing on the…

Lauren Sandall has completed a lovely first set of typographic work for the Graphic Design Art Diploma Course. Tutor Vanessa weaver was thrilled to receive them as are we to be able to show them here on the blog. We…

Welcome to this weekends art challenge all about wild flowers. Some of the photos below were taken on a woodland track in the wilds of west Wales, others are stock photos all free to use. You can draw or paint…

Welcome to the results of our latest weekend art challenge. We set our students this week, the task of creating artwork around the theme of Strawberries. Our students have had a wonderful time in creating and probably eating, plenty of…

Student Emily Hemmings has submitted her first set of work on the Graphic Design Art Course and produced a terrific set of illustrations for a tourist brochure. Emily has also put together some very effective concept boards, which were a…

Anne-Sophie Laugier submitted this very impressive illustration as her response to the Fiery Fred brief on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. Sophie also took a photo of the painting with her watercolour pallet which is absolutely beautiful! We would…

Rosy Davis created these two superb pieces of artwork for the first assignment on the Graphic Design Art course. At this stage, Rosie was learning about perspective and these are her two pen and ink illustrations as examples for this….

Welcome to our very summery weekend art challenge. This week, we would love for you to be creative with strawberries. It’s the height of the strawberry season and you may be lucky enough to have some growing in your garden,…

Welcome to our big announcement! The London Art College yearly competition is now OPEN! Students can submit ONE piece of artwork they have created. It doesn’t have to be a course work piece. The artwork can be in any medium…

Welcome to the results of ‘The Scream’ art challenge. This time we set our students the task of creating their own version – or own take on the Edvard Munch painting ‘The Scream’. We hope that you are all as…

Caroline Richards has completed the Graphic Design Course course and passed with an overall Distinction grade. Caroline has designed a beautiful poster which you can see below, along with her sketches and mockups of how the poster developed. Caroline sent this…

Ian Dance, a student from the Learn to Draw Course has created two lovely drawings in pen. Tutor Monika Cilmi was delighted with his work and we are thrilled to be able to show them on the blog today. The…

Student Sara Sykes has just completed the Illustration Diploma Course with a Distinction. Tutor Steven Hersey said that the distinction grade was well deserved and her work on the course was outstanding. We have added three images below, the first…

Welcome to our weekend art challenge. A very different idea today sparked by student Mila Zinzen. ‘Mila’s idea is to ‘Make your interpretation of a well-known piece of art and for everyone to do the same piece’. After lots of…

Welcome to the results of this weekends art challenge. We set our students the task of creating a mandala or two! Students seem to have loved this idea and found the whole process very relaxing and meditative. So many beautiful…

Sean Cocker is currently working towards completing the Botanical Coloured Pencil Course with tutor Ida Mitrani. Seans illustrations below are absolutely stunning and we hope that you enjoy viewing them as much as we have. If you are interested in…

Audrey Quinton studied our Cartooning Diploma Course with tutor John Byrne. Audrey has just got in touch, as one of her stunning cartoons has been published in a booklet called ‘Fit For Farming‘. You can read about it online and…

I changed my path at college level from illustration to 3D Design., This gave me a wonderful career but I hope to finish what I started with Illustration. I also wish to learn more to be able to illustrate the…

Welcome to this weekends art challenge. Mandalas. What are Mandalas you ask? Wikipedia describes them as ‘a geometric configuration of symbols’. They can be a very precise circles with a matching configurations of patterns or conversely they can be a…

Welcome to our latest art challenge where we asked our students to set about creating a ‘triptych’ as our weekend challenge. A Triptych is a set of three pieces of artwork with a theme running through them, or an image…

Student Gayathri G is studying on our Illustration Diploma Course with tutor Steven Hersey. In one of the assignments on the course students are asked to design and redesign some logos. Gayathri created a number of stunning logo designs, including…

Welcome to our blog post today, dedicated to photography student David Feakes. He passed with flying colours this week with a distinction and tutor Rona Cox was delighted. The photos below show two from the portraiture window light tasks, one…

Today we have two beautiful watercolour paintings by student Sylvia Kendrick who is working on our Watercolour Diploma Course with tutor Ida Mitrani. Sylvia has traditionally painted a stunning flower painting entitled ‘Flowers from my Garden’ and a still life…

Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge. This time we would like you to create a Triptych. Students can create one long image split into three, or alternatively three separate images with a definite theme. The painting below by Simon…

Welcome to the results of our latest weekend art challenge. We set students the task of choosing to draw or paint anything that involved warm colours. We were once again delighted with the creativity that our students have shown this…

These beautiful Illustrations are from Gillian Ofodile, who has taken the same subject matter and applied her interpretation of realistic, loose, graphic, collage and retro illustration styles to it. Some lovely experimentation with different styles of illustration. Vanessa WeaverGraphic Design Art…

Having never studied art online, I was a little apprehensive as to how much I would learn, but was truly impressed by the quality and content offered in the watercolour course. I found the assignments fun, yet challenging too. My tutor…

A lovely collection of paintings today by Landscape student Jackie Davies who is being guided with painting and drawing landscapes by tutor Alan Dedman. We hope that Jackie’s use of beautiful soft shades of blues and yellows inspire you to…

We would like our students this week to come up with a piece of artwork which celebrates the use of warm colours. We are thinking about oranges, yellows, golds, reds, peaches and sandy colours. The subject you paint or draw…

Welcome to our weekend challenge set last weekend on the theme of Pandas. We have received a phenomenal amount of Panda artwork! Each and everyone one being beautifully creative and we can see that our students really embraced the theme…

For this exercise I used some decorative objects of my toilet sink.At first, it was a little bit challenging but after the final image popped up to my mind, I could cleary see what was requested. Roberta Goncalves da silvaIllustrating…

We have a simply superb collection of paintings today by our Pet Portraits Diploma Course students. We thought it would be lovely to celebrate our animal painting students and also provide some inspiration to our readers too. If you have…

Student Ana Munoz was nominated by tutor Monica Cilmi for an ABCC certificate of merit for her work on the  Chinese Brush Painting Course. You can also see Ana’s certificate above and at the bottom of the page along with…

Welcome to this weekends art challenge. We would love for you to create artwork around the cutest animal on the earth…a Panda Bear! We have left this challenge fairly open, so our students can create either a realistic painting or…

Welcome to the wonderful results of our latest weekend challenge all about illustrating song lyrics. This challenge was thanks to Beckie Andrews who created this beautiful illustration below celebrating the song by Ocean Colour Scene – Travellers Tune. Also special…

My name is Rachel and I have just completed assignment 5 for the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. I found it to be the most difficult so far. Especially as I love working in colour! I had no idea at the…

Thanks for asking me to write a little about my ‘Row Your Boat’ illustration for part one of the Children’s Book Illustration Diploma Course with Maggie Roberts as Tutor. As you can see I’ve used quite strong, warm colours to…

Welcome to our new weekend art challenge. Student Beckie Andrews came up with a lovely idea for this weekends challenge. She would love for you all to draw or paint lyrics from your favourite song. We don’t really have many…

Welcome to our weekend challenge all about Marine Life. WOW! What an amazing array of paintings and drawings we have received from our students this week. We are stunned by the quality of every single piece. They are all so…

These pictures were produced by Kyrah Smith in her assignment 5 work. I yesterday assessed them, together with the preparation studies, and thought they were lovely examples of imaginative and skilful digital illustration, with great drama and atmosphere. Steven HerseyIllustration…

Here is some work from Caroline Richards, who has designed some lovely teabag packaging. It really captures a theme of relaxation and calm and has shown terrific continuity of style around all faces of the pack.  Vanessa WeaverGraphic Design Art…

Student Evgeniya Sheshina has completed the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course and passed with a distinction. Tutor Paul weaver said…. Evgeniya is very talented, especially with her drawing. Lots of stunning pieces below. Paul WeaverDrawing and Painting Diploma Course

Welcome to our weekend challenge all about marine life. Something a little different this week. We would love for you to have fun with shape and colour, texture and form, wet in wet washes, bold strokes and soft shades… the…