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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…
Alex is completing the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course with tutor Paul Weaver….. I deliberately put together a similar collection of items for a still life painting that I had seen on LAC, and it was useful to have such…
Welcome to this weekends Art Challenge! With thanks to our Illustration tutor Steven Hersey and his suggestion, we are excited to announce the them for this challenge is Superheroes! We have added a literal translation of the theme below in…
Welcome to our artwork for this weekends art challenge where the theme is Winter! We knew that this subject would allow our students to be very creative and come up with a wide range of paintings and drawings for this…
Student Federica Cesaroni has completed her second assignment in the Illustration Diploma Course. Tutor Steven Hersey said… “I think it is quite lovely, with sensitive and delicate drawing work done with charm and flair. I am constantly amazed at the…
We have collected all of the Christmas images that we didn’t manage to post in our Advent Calendar and hope you enjoy viewing them. We received so many amazing paintings, drawings and illustrations and cant thank our students enough! We…
Susan Heller has passed with a well deserved Distinction on the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. Tutor Paul Weaver was thrilled with Susan’s artwork and we have added a collection for our readers to view below. Congratulations Susan, we wish…
Hi, my name is Lisa. I am from Australia. I have just started the ‘Children’s Book Illustration’ course tutored by Maggy Roberts. This is my first assignment submitted in December 2019. The aim was to create a lively illustration for…
This weeks challenge is quite an open theme – its anything to do with Winter. You could draw or paint all sorts of things from a still life of pine cones, to a wintery snow scene, skaters on an ice…
Welcome to our first art challenge of the New Year and what an amazing array of artwork we have been sent! Our theme this week was Teddy Bears and we love them all! So many different bears in different poses….
Lucy Wheeler has created an illustration of a dog on a wall with a little bird. One great way of learning how to create illustrations of animals is to practice drawing fairly realistic animals and give them a character. You…
Student Ester Murphy completed these two pastel paintings whilst working on the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. We absolutely love the reflection of the small silver pot in the larger silver pot in the pastel with the light brown background….
A wonderful illustration today by London Art College Illustrating children’s book student Ethne Diian. So many things to see within the illustration, we hope you find it inspiring!
Still life student Barbra Knapik has created some stunning pieces of work for her assignments on the Still Life course. We particularly love the bronze and brass colours of the still life below with the striped cloth background. The glassy…
Welcome to our very first Art Challenge for 2020! We hope that you all had a lovely festive season and New Year and are ready to get back into the swing of things again with our art challenges. We thought…
Drawing and Painting student Elaine Marsh has created four wonderful paintings for one of her course assignments. We particularly like the first watercolour below with all of the tall buildings and shop fronts. Very colourful and the windows on each…
Pet Portrait Diploma student Iona Findlay has created some absolutely stunning coloured pencil drawings for one of her sets of work on the course. The first few images below are exercises in practicing how to capture eyes, fur, noses and…
A stunning watercolour painting today by student Christine Towell. We have added a close up version along with the original below so our readers can see the lovely detail. Beautiful. Well done Christine!
A beautiful painting today by London Art College Student Mike Masson. A very beautiful and wintery scene.
We are continuing our festive artwork for the rest of December. Today we have a fabulous painting by Shamina Chowdhury called ‘Winter in Paris’. We hope that everyone is enjoying the festivities!!
Happy Christmas! Two wonderful illustrations today by student Priscilla Hocking. Congratulations for being chosen for Christmas day! We would like to take this opportunity to send our students very best wishes for the festive season, from us all here at…
Its Christmas Eve!! We hope that your stockings are hung up over your fireplace and the presents are wrapped! Merry Christmas Eve from all at the London Art College. Thank you today to Iryna Labunska for a fantastic festive illustration…
Two beautiful pantings and drawings today by students Vera Jaouadi and Ava Marley. Both very similar in that they are using a very limited pallet for their work creating the most beautiful effects using this technique. We love Vera’s soft…
We are getting very close to the big day! Student Katherine Rolf has created a fabulous Illustration for our Advent Calendar which you can see below. Well done Katherine, it is superb! Stay tuned for another painting tomorrow!
An absolutely stunning watercolour painting today by student Vera Jaouadi. Beautifully painted. We hope you enjoy viewing it. Stay tuned for another festive piece tomorrow!
We have four fantastic pieces of digital art for you today by student Louise Dexter. Aren’t they wonderful! We especially love the Guinea fowl below offering up some Mistletoe. Well done Louise!
Welcome to the 19th day of our advent calendar. We have quite the collection today with three stunning pieces by our students. Emma Miller has created a very lively Christmas Pigeon. We love the pigeon’s eye and the way he…
What a fantastic illustration we have today by student Diana Eastlake! Very colourful and festive!!
Two wonderful illustrations today from student Agathe Talbot Morisse. The first painting below is a mural in acrylic created by Agathe in the waiting room of the children’s ward at the Kings College Hospital for the Christmas season. The children…
Two wonderful paintings for you all today on this lovely Monday morning. Our Christmas advent Calendar is starting to look very festive! Both of these paintings have been created by student Shelia Brown. We all wish her a very Merry…
Today’s advent calendar is by student Pauline Burke and what a lovely and creative image! We absolutely love it and perfect for our calendar today. Keep checking back for the next window to open tomorrow!!
Welcome to day 14 of our advent calendar. Getting a lot closer to the big day! We have two lovely images for you today created by Julia Renee Cook. The Poinsettia and Robin was created in Faber Castell Polychronos Pencils.
A superb image today by Dylan F Jeskye who has painted a red squirrel peering around the tree, hopefully looking to spot Santa on his way! The month is flying by and we hope you are enjoying our advent calendar…
We have two beautiful drawings and paintings today by student Katherine Peverelle. The first Christmas piece below was with Africa in mind. Katherine created it using coloured pencil with touches of silver pen. The second watercolour is of a dog with a…
Todays Advent is by student Rebekka Volgmann… “Christmas …. time for love, charity, peace, family and friends. I have chosen the ananas to show how easy a simple thing can be interpreted in two different ways. Or every story has…
We are very impressed by this wonderful piece created by student Magdalena Piwowarczyk who is staring on our Advent Calendar today. Very wintery and festive, loving the different tones in the sky!
A stunning pastel painting for today’s Advent Calendar by student Heidi Elizabeth. We hope you like it. Stay tuned for another festive piece tomorrow..!
What an amazing drawing for our advent calendar today! The pastel drawing “Christmas Flower” was created by student Mila Zinzen and we are thrilled to showcase it on our blog. Mila said “I was carried away while drawing the shadows…
Welcome to our weekend advent! Today’s artwork is by artist and cartoonist Audrey Quinton. We absolutely love the techniques Audrey has used in her watercolour painting, very wintery and festive!
We absolutely love Dionne Turnbull’s digital artwork of the character called Bah Humslug! Diane has used him for one of her first assignments for the digital illustration course. Dionne said “Definitely not a self-portrait, I love Christmas!!” So do we Dionne,…
Pete Woolgar starts the day today with a fabulous gingerbread character for our December 5th window. We hope you like him, we think he is superb! If you would like to take part in our 2019 Advent Calendar, drop us…
Welcome to our 4th of December Advent Calendar! Today’s beautiful artwork is by Eileen Maspero. Isn’t the little Penguin gorgeous! We hope that you stay tuned for tomorrow’s Christmas advent window!
Welcome to day three of our Advent Calendar and today’s artwork has been created by student Ethne Dian. Isn’t it fantastic! So many elements, well done Ethne! come back tomorrow to open the next window…!
Welcome to our Second day of our Festive Advent Calendar! Todays wonderful illustration is by London Art College student Magdalena Piwowarczyk. Stay tuned for tomorrow’s instalment!!
Welcome to the first day of our London Art College Advent Calendar. Elena Statham is starting us off with her beautiful wreath that she created in her Procreate software on her iPad. Wonderful and very clever too! Thank you Elena!…
We would like our students to take part in our Big Christmas challenge Advent Calendar. It is very simple. Find something along a Christmas theme to paint or draw for us to post on the blog this month. Send as…
We are speechless! WOW! What an incredible amount of entries for this weeks Art Challenge. It was based on the brief of Exotic birds and we found the students a few copyright free photos to get started. Alternatively they could…
The coloured pencil course allows students to learn how to create deep tones in their first assignments by comparing and contrasting still life studies in both mediums. Alison Davies completed the mug and spoon exercise beautifully and has understood how…
My name is Yulia and I am from Russia. In the past, I have practiced drawing sculpture heads, like Apollo and Venus. I don’t have any clear artistic goals for now but I do hope to keep pushing my boundaries…
Science fiction and Fantasy student Sarah Baker has created an incredible painting called ‘Portal’. We love the textures and colours Sarah has created, the concept is superb. Tutor John Byrne teaches the Science fiction and Fantasy Course and you can…
What an art challenge we have for you this week! Its all about colour! Lots of bright intense and vivid tones and hues to portray some exotic birds. You can use any of the photos below which are copyright free,…
Welcome to the results of our Art Challenge which we sent our students last Friday. It was to create a drawing or painting in any medium, on the subject of Nuts. We have received some beautiful and very creative pieces…
Portraiture painting student Michael Van Der Roost has been putting his all into his art course and we have three stunning studies here for our students to view. The first two are in pencil and charcoal and the final painting…
Gemma Dobson has been working really hard on her Pet Portrait Diploma Course and we have added two of her pieces of work below. The Pet Portraits course doesn’t only include pets – you can paint or draw wildlife too….
Oil painting student Mahua Pal has painted four oil paintings of vases and pots of flowers and leaves. Each subject has been meticulously drawn onto canvas and painted with great care and attention. Mahua’s style comes through in each painting…
We would love for you to find a collection of nuts to draw or paint! Hopefully, heading fast towards Christmas, there should be lots of choice in supermarkets or your local shops. You can portray as many as you would…