Author: London Art College
Welcome to the results of this weeks art challenge. The feedback from all of our students was incredible. From the sounds of it, the challenge was one of the most enjoyable to date! Scroll down to take a look at…
When I first read the assignment, I wondered what I was going to be able to draw. And finally I never thought that the space under a sink, an ordinary place, would be such a fascinating source of inspiration for…
I complete my Watercolour Diploma in January. I had a great time during the course and my tutor Jem was fantastic with his constructive feed back, his timely advice and encouragement. I really felt supported throughout. I recently looked back…
I chose the Editorial Illustration option for this set of work on the Graphic Design in art course. My first thought on reading the description was of the portraits produced by Giuseppe Arcimboldo using fruit and vegetables. However, I started…
We have a very calming challenge for you this week. Sit back and relax and do some designing and drawing at your desk or kitchen table. We would like you to illustrate your name – or your initial. We have…
Welcome to the latest results of our weekend art challenge. A couple of weeks ago we set our students a challenge to take a photo of themselves in a mirror. You can see how the students got on here –…
Danielle Kantola has just completed the Watercolour Diploma Course with tutor Ida Mitrani. We have includes some of Danielle’s artwork below along with a lovely testimonial too. We hope you find Danielle’s watercolours inspiring. I really enjoyed the course and…
List of priorities to focus on for this assignment Have a focal point Develop the painting in stages- darkening tone as you go Use tonal variation to show the contrast in tones Use tonal variation to suggest recession in the…
I was flattered to be invited to contribute to the LCA blog and share some of my recent pieces of work, alongside some of my coursework. Inspired by TV, movies and comics, I’ve loved creating sci-fi and fantasy characters for…
Welcome to our latest art challenge which is a continuation from last week. We would like you to paint or draw your photo from last weeks challenge. I hear you say, ‘What? We have to draw or paint our photo?’…
Welcome to the results of our Photo in a Mirror art challenge! Wow! The results are absolutely incredible. We are thrilled not only to see our students, but also to see how creative they can be with their cameras! We…
I recently started the Illustrating Children’s Diploma course with Maggy Roberts and submitted my first assignment about a week ago where I received very encouraging feedback from our tutor (“excellent work”). It was a very inspiring and bright exercise to do,…
We would like to send Sabina Rahmanova our heartiest congratulations on recently passing her Drawing and Painting Diploma Course with a distinction. Congratulation Sabina! We have added some of Sabina’s artwork below for our students to be inspired by. We…
London Art College student Christine Emery has just completed the Botanical Art Coloured Pencil Course with flying colours. We have added two beautiful pieces which were created by Christine for her course below. Congratulations on passing! We wish you all…
Welcome to our new weekend challenge – ‘photo in a mirror’. We are partnering with our lovely Photography tutor Rona Cox who set this challenge for her own students this week. We would love it if our students could take…
We hope that everyone had a lovely Easter, although it was probably a lot different for many people this year. The Easter theme definitely generated lots of lovely and happy illustrations and paintings. One of our favourites is the lovely…
Welcome to the beautiful artwork of student Anna Noel Storr who is studying on the Beginners Drawing Course with tutor Monica Cilmi. Monica said… The composition of Anna’s artwork is very simple but each drawing works extremely well. Her drawing…
The following has been written by our tutor Rona Cox for her photography students, however we thought that in general it would be good advice for all of our students on other courses as there are ‘ways and means’ of…
Student Olga Polyanska has created three stunning watercolours for a set of assignments for the Drawing & Painting Diploma course with tutor Paul Weaver. We absolutely love them and were thrilled when Paul asked for them to be shown here….
Tutor Monica Cilmi has a superb student called Julie Cook who is currently working on the Coloured Pencil Drawing Course. As you can see by viewing Julie’s work below the course is very varied in the subjects that you can…
Welcome to our weekend challenge. As it’s Good Friday and Easter weekend we thought it would be appropriate to have an Easter challenge for all of our students to enjoy. Ideas! You could paint or draw all of your Easter…
Welcome to our springtime art challenge. We have received some beautiful pieces of artwork this week for our challenge which has brightened everyones day and lifted the spirits of our students! The lovely happy colours used in the artwork below…
The Getty Museum is asking people to recreate artwork using random house objects. As self-isolation is becoming the new norm and people are getting bored, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles challenged their Twitter followers to recreate a…
We have two stunning illustrations today by Emma Hasson who is currently working through the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma course with tutor Maggy Roberts. Maggy asked us to show Emma’s artwork on the blog as it is a wonderful answer…
Welcome to the beautiful step by step watercolour flower blossoms by student Maria Ei Zar. Maria’s painting style is so delicate, beautiful and fresh. We hope that you find her work inspiring! Maria said… I love this kind of flowers…
Welcome to this weeks artwork challenge. As the clocks have sprung forward and we are now officially into Summer Time – although clearly it isn’t quite summer yet here in the UK, we would like you to draw on the…
We are absolutely loving this weeks collection of artwork – so varied and up-lifting. We were aiming for a cheery theme this week and we really hope all of these beautiful paintings and drawings make you smile. Thank you to…
We were thrilled to receive some wonderful images from student Anne-Sophie Laugier. We love her ‘in progress’ photo of her workspace and sketches. Anne-Sophie is studying with Maggy Roberts on the Illustrating Children’s Diploma course. If students have any in…
It seems strange now, but it is just a month and a half ago that I completed the Drawing and Painting Diploma, with Distinction. Rather than delving straight into a successful art career, I have put some other bits and…
Welcome to two beautiful illustrations by London Art College student Christina Green. Christina has created both of these paintings for the first sets of assignments on the Illustrating Children’s Diploma Course. Christina said… I would like to work as a…
Welcome to this weekends art challenge. This one is quite a tricky one as we are going to make our students have a ponder as to what they would rather be doing than sitting at home. The list is endless…
We have received some beautiful paintings and drawings this week for our weekend art challenge, all about your favourite things. Watercolour seems to be the medium for today with students Vera, Anthea and Elena creating some very delicate pieces using…
Student Mahua Pal studied our Oil Painting course with tutor Alan Dedman. We thought we would show some of Mahua’s still life artwork to help give our students some inspiration of what to draw and paint in light of the…
Sandra Eve completed the Pet Portrait Diploma Course a few years ago, however the pencil drawing of her cat and some foxgloves was always a firm favourite our and we felt that it was extremely blog worthy. The delicate pencil…
Veronika has just completed the Drawing and Painting Diploma art course with a distinction. We have added some of Veronika’s artwork below and we hope that you enjoy viewing it.
Welcome to this weekends art challenge. In these difficult times of self isolation we would like to make sure our students have fun with the challenges but also make sure we can set them challenges where they can safely stay…
Welcome to this weeks artwork for the Rainbow art challenge. What a diverse display of artwork we have received. It has been a lovely challenge for our students to complete in these difficult times we are going through. The beautiful…
Student Maggie Pelling has created a beautiful painting for her Graphic Design in Art Diploma Course tutored by Vanessa Weaver. We have received a lovely quote from tutor Vanessa too, which you can read below. Congratulations Maggie on a wonderful…
Three superb pieces of artwork today by London Art College student Pat Marsh who is working on the Drawing and painting Diploma course. Pat has created some lovely drawings below, we are thrilled with the pencil drawing study of Pat…
Student Stuart Brandt has created two lovely illustrations for the illustrating Children’s Diploma Course with tutor Maggy Roberts. We hope to add Stuart’s illustrations to our website gallery in the coming weeks.
Welcome to this weekend’s Art Challenge where the theme is Rainbows! We thought we would brighten your day by looking at colour and how rainbows are made, the colours within them and the transitions between each colour too. In a…
Welcome to this weeks art challenge. This post comes with a cuteness warning! We are sure that you will scroll down and smile at the beautiful paintings and drawings that have been created by our students. We hope you all…
Student Denise Roscoe has created this pen and ink drawing of a fish sellers yard in Whitby. Denise is currently studying the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course with tutor Paul Weaver. We hope to add Denise’s drawing to our website…
We have some wonderful artwork today, a collection of students work from the Drawing with Pens course tutored by Monika Cilmi. The students work below are Lynn Stuart James, Samuel Croyle, Anca Wicksman and you can see their names under…
Welcome to a wonderful collection of artwork by student Gayathri G. She is currently completing the Illustration Diploma with tutor Steven Hersey. These are just a few of the pieces Gayathri submitted for her first and second assignment. Steven was…
Welcome to this weekends artwork challenge. Its cuteness overload here! We would love for you to create a drawing or painting of a ‘Cute Animal’ similar to the photos you see below. You can use the photos or choose your…
Welcome to our weekend artwork with the theme – Cityscapes. We left the theme fairly open so that our students were able to add their own flare and creativity into the artwork. As you can see from looking at the…
These illustrations are by James Hutton for his second assignment for the Illustration Diploma Course. Simply excellent. Some outstanding examples of illustration in both technique and concept. Incredible detail and worth taking time to ponder over the pictures. Steven Hersey
Sebastian’s sink city has been hard work for me, but in the same time I really enjoyed it. I began my work searching for inspiration on internet. There I found a very interesting blog, written by Charlotte Kaill, with detailed…
When planning for “Fiery Fred”, I immediately wanted to portray a scene depicting a fairytale/country feel and took inspiration for style and colour palette from Alida Akers’ work. I wanted the colours to gradually become warmer as they move away…
Welcome to this weekends Art Challenge. We thought we’d mix things up a bit this week and ask our students to paint, draw or illustrate a cityscape. This can be any city at any time of day or night, in…
Welcome to the gallery of artwork for this weekends challenge, created by some very serene students! The pieces below are absolutely fantastic and we really hope that you all enjoy viewing them. So many different ideas for the theme this…
Student Shubhangi Jain has completed the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course with tutor Alan Dedman. Alan requested for Shubhangi’s artwork to be added to the college blog and we were delighted to. We hope you find them inspiring.
Today we have some beautiful artwork form student Rebecca Hearson who has just submitted her first set of work for the Illustrating Children’s book Diploma Course. Maggy said… A lovely first submission from Rebecca, she has submitted some outstanding work….
Tutor Alan Dedman has Recently been invited to participate in the opening of an exhibition of African Art at Hidden Lane Gallery in Glasgow. Alan showing some of his work alongside African artists, meeting some of them and joining an ‘Art…
Paul Weaver has an article out in the latest issue of ‘The Artist’ magazine (April 2020) ’The Magic of Snow & Frost in Watercolour’ and we have added a painting by Paul Weaver which you can see in the magazine below….
This weekends art challenge is quite an open subject. We thought as we generated lots of stormy artwork last week we would calm things down with the theme of Serenity this week. Interpret it how you would like and we…
What a beautiful array of artwork we have received for this weeks art challenge. The artwork below really does convey the theme of ‘Storms’ well and I hope that everyone enjoys viewing all of the pieces. A very wide selection…
Stunning illustration for our readers to view today. Diana Eastlake who is currently working with tutor Maggy Roberts on the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma course created this double page spread for one of her assignments. The bottle on the left…
The following painting was completed by Oksana Lupych who has just completed our Oil Painting course. The image below is part of her final assignment and is the from the abstract section of course exercises. Oksana said… For the abstract…
A lovely collation of artwork today by Illustration student Eva Chen. Tutor Steven Hersey was thrilled with all of the pieces. He said to Eva.. “This first assignment is outstanding. I would like to congratulate you on your work. It…
Here in the UK and in parts of Europe there have been lots of storms recently, this weekend we are being battered by Storm Dennis. We thought it would be a very apt challenge to create a piece of artwork…
Welcome to this weeks art challenge artwork! It is all about the eyes! We set students the task to either draw their own eyes in a mirror or draw or paint the eyes of friends and family members. If students…
Qian Tang Michel is currently studying our Portrait Painting Course with tutor Alan Dedman. The paintings and drawings Qian has created below are absolutely stunning and we hope that they inspire our students and readers. Qian Said… I already performed…
The Cartooning Diploma Course: This is a long blog post (just warning you now!) but the course was 18 months of sheer enjoyment so it warrants quite a few words (and illustrations!) in praise of it. Just in case you…
After four years as tutor on the Watercolour Diploma course, Jem Bowden has critiqued his last assignment for students at London Art College. A planned move to Scotland sees Jem go in new directions in life and work, although he…
Welcome to this weekends art challenge. We thought we would ease you in gently with painting portraits by starting with drawing eyes. You can either look in the mirror and draw your own, or if you have a friend or…
Welcome to our weekend art challenge artwork for the theme Cats and Kittens. We have received an overwhelming amount of entries this week and we are delighted to see the vast array of styles, ideas and beautiful artwork our students…
Louise Dexter created this selection of beautiful paintings whilst working on the drawing and painting course, along with travelling too. Louise said…. Watercolour 1 was painted while on holiday in the Algarve, surrounded by Bougainvillea so it made sense to…
Two wonderful paintings today by London Art College student Aneta Juszczak who is studying on our Portraits course. Both paintings are absolutely stunning and we hope that our students are inspired by them!
Jamie Simmons has created a beautiful double page spread as part of the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. Read Jamie’s experiences of the process below… “I did individual studies of each bird I wanted to use, before I sketched them…
Welcome to this weekend art challenge. We would like you to create a piece of unique art in any medium and of cats or kittens – or both! It can be a pure portrait style piece for our pet portrait…
Welcome to this weekend’s art challenge – Superheroes. The theme was a fantastic idea by our illustration tutor Steven Hersey! We have received some amazing paintings and we particularly like the watercolour by Vera Jaouadi which we have used as…
We have two wonderful oil paintings today by student Abigail Winfield. One is a final painting and the other is a full preparatory study. We feel that they are absolutely wonderful and are thrilled to be able to show them…
London Art College student Elizabeth Kelly, has been creating some beautiful artwork on the Chinese Brush Painting Course with tutor Monika Cilmi. We have added three wonderful pieces by Elizabeth below. If you would like to have a go at…