Author: London Art College
A very bright, colourful and happy snowman for today’s Christmas countdown by student Elena Statham.
Day 5 of our Christmas countdown and student Leila Nabih has created a beautiful illustration for us today!
Day 4 of our festive countdown in December! Today a wonderful illustration by Alankrita Jain.
Day three of our Christmas countdown and today showcases a beautiful painting by Alison Hughes…
Our yearly tradition is to feature students festive paintings and drawings every day of December. We hope that it gets everyone in the festive spirit! Todays painting is beautiful, it is painted by student Elena Statham.
Tutor John Byrne very kindly sent us an email from one of his completed students called Nitin Bhojraj along with some wonderful photos Nitin has taken. Nitin was delighted for us to add the photos and his email here for students…
Blog post by Vanessa Weaver on the Graphic Design Course…. My student Caroline Richards is currently working on my Graphic Design Course and these are her responses to the study unit that mark the culmination of the drawing, composition and mark…
My name is Maria Lusser. I recently have finished the Digital Illustration course. One of the works which I have submitted for the final assignment is a comic drawn as vector graphic. John a little bull is explaining his little…
Our Drawing and Painting Diploma Course is one of our most popular courses. It not only introduces you to lots of lovely mediums, it also enables you to draw and paint a whole variety of subjects. Student Anne Callanan is…
Todays illustration is by London Art College student Gina Maldonado. Isn’t it a wonderful! Gina’s use of colour and design makes for a very appealing illustration.
Today’s Spooky Illustration is by London Art College student Emily Miller…! We love the happy bats flying around the moon. Superb!
Zaniska Lachhani has created a wonderful illustration for her ‘Sebastian’s Sink City’ assignments in the Illustrating Children’s Books course. We have added a full version for you to see below, along with some close up versions too. Zaniska has created a…
Shelby Bledsoe has created a range of wonderful paintings for the Life drawing and painting course. Shelby has used an online photo resource to paint and draw the life models, which is often much easier than heading out to a…
A lovely line drawing in pen and ink today by London Art College student Sarah Giddy. Sarah, who is studying the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course completed this as one of her assignments. Tutor Maggy Roberts put this forward for…
If anyone reading our blog or newsletter is at the very beginning of their artistic journey, our drawing course could be the perfect first step for you. What ever your age it’s never too late to take up a course….
Christine Pitt completed our Pet Portraits Course a few years ago and we wanted to show some of her exquisite pieces on our blog to help inspire our students. As you can see our Pet Portraits course isn’t just for…
London Art College student Pernilla Nehler completed our Portrait Painting and Drawing course with flying colours. We are thrilled to be able to add some of her work here on our blog to both wow and inspire our students. One…
Student Elena Peres has been experimenting with drawing garlic using pastels for one of her assignments on our Pastel Course. The first study is in full colour, the other is a tonal study in greyscale using only black and white…
Three beautiful oil paintings today by student Mahua Pal who is studying on our Oil painting Course. The oils course is fairly open in that you can paint any subject within the guidelines of each assignment. So if you want…
Shelby Bledsoe has drawn some wonderful studies in preparation for her colour work on our Life Drawing and Painting Course. We love the way that Shelby has shaded the background around her subjects and studies, allowing us to place the…
When you think about painting a landscape you tend to think about rolling hills and trees and looking as far as they eye can see. Representing the landscape with all of it’s beauty is important. However how many of you…
Today’s Spooky Saturday illustration is by student Diana Farmilo. Watch out if you are scared of spiders…this one might make you squeal!!
Have we got any Chinese Brush Painters among us? Perhaps you have always wanted to have a go and would like some guidance in doing so? London Art College student Senur Bicer has been doing just that working on our…
Some of our readers might not be aware that we offer two lovely courses for the young artists amongst us from ages 7 to 14. Talitha Young has completed our Drawing for Children’s courses 1 and 2 recently and here…
Our Drawing and Painting Diploma Course is one of our most popular courses. It is a perfect course for the beginner to be introduced to the world of drawing and painting and its even great for intermediate artists to brush…
Student Chew Mei Hui completed these two superb designs whilst studying our Graphic Design Art Course with tutor Vanessa Weaver. Our graphic design course is suitable for all levels of experience and can really help students to improve their creative skills…
Welcome to our blog post announcing the new tutor of our Illustration Diploma Course! Steven Hersey taught art for many years in a secondary school. Since his retirement from teaching Steven has been delivering workshops and demonstrations at the Lady Lever…
Today’s Spooky Saturday artwork is by Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma student Charley Muhren.
Here is a wonderful photo of some of the tutors and staff who attended our yearly meeting in Bristol in October 2018. A very exiting meeting with lots discussed. Some of our tutors were unable to make it, however here…
We are following on from our post all about the winner of the London Art College Competition 2018. Now we would like to present the runner up – Rob Leuchtenberger! Rob is taking our Life Drawing and Painting Course and has very kindly…
We would like to announce the winner of the London Art College 2018 Competition – Michael Masson. The winning painting was chosen at our yearly meeting where all of the tutors voted for a winner and runner up. Mike’s painting…
Happy Halloween Everyone! Today we have a fantastic blog post by a very clever student of ours called Heidi Seal. Here is her incredible Halloween Pumpkin decoration. Read all about it below. Don’t forget to follow Heidi on Instagram to see…
John Byrne, tutor of the Cartooning Diploma course, asked if we would be able to post Afreen Rubbani’s artwork from his final assignment. Afreen had passed his course with flying colours. Her three final pieces are scratchboard portraits of Donald Trump,…
Maggy Roberts, tutor for the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course, put forward some of student Sarah Giddy’s artwork for the blog. We absolutely love her Sink City illustration and have shown the full painting and some close up details for…
Emily Miller’s illustration is today’s Spooky Saturday! We hope that you love it as much as we do. So much detail and lovely ideas!
A wonderful piece of artwork on this bright and cheery Friday morning. The collage has been created by London Art College student Margaret Desouza as one of her assignments for her Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. Students are asked to…
Sara Wendy Olivia studied our Beginners Drawing Course recently and created this wonderful still life study in charcoal. Students who are practicing drawing and finding it difficult to create tone within their artwork, charcoal is a great way of gaining…
Hi Everyone, My name is Paul Weaver and I am a tutor on the drawing and Painting Diploma course. I am having an exhibition with my painting friend Max Hale next month in Wiltshire, UK. I hope that its a…
Alison Croft completed the Pet Portraits Diploma Course a few years ago and passed with flying colours. She received a distinction for her final set of work and high marks throughout her course. We have added Alison’s work here on…
London Art College student Sophie Delesque enrolled on our Botanical Coloured Pencil Course a few years ago. A few of her beautiful botanical studies are below. Sophies work can be found on her twitter account Sophie Delesque Twitter and you can…
We have shown Belinda Cullen’s artwork on our blog previously. Belinda completed our Watercolour Diploma a while ago, however we have lots of her artwork on file and we never tire of looking at it – or posting it here!…
Here are three illustrations by botanical student Sabine Krappmann. Sabine completed three different studies of the sunflower using different techniques. The first study is a sepia pen and ink drawing, allowing Sabine to describe the areas using fine pen lines and texture….
Josephine MacLeod is currently working through our Life Drawing and Painting Course with tutor Alan Dedman. She has completed three excellent paintings for her coursework and we wanted to show them here for our students to see. We love the…
Student John Irvine has created some amazing drawings on the Coloured Pencil Course recently. We particularly like the first drawing below, the cup and spoon drawing. The pattern on the cup is absolutely wonderful. The intensity of the colour in the…
Student Elena Peres created some wonderful studies for one of her assignments on the Pastel Painting Course. We absolutely love the way that Elena has experimented using the same still life set up using different papers and different techniques. Both…
My name is Ana Lucía and I would like to share with you these two works of my final sixth assignment on the Botanical Painting Diploma Course with the London Art College. They are Persea Americana and Beta Vulgaris. Ana…
Today’s Spooky Saturday artwork is by student Carlos Rodriguez Leyva. We love this one, such fluid lines! Congratulations Carlos!
The final day of our Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma exercise the ‘Row Row Row Your Boat’ week. Monique Bailey’s version was wonderfully received by tutor Maggy Roberts which you can see below. The overall design, the different elements of the…
Karen Moore has created a very dreamy illustration for the ‘Row, Row Row Your Boat’ exercise. If you look at the detailed versions below you will be able to see the characters Karen has created more clearly. The whole concept…
A beautiful illustration today by London Art College student Gabrielle Marlowe. This is a wonderful response to the exercise ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’ on the illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. We love the dog with his paws over the…
Our second day of “Row, Row, Row Your Boat’ illustrations. If you didn’t see yesterdays, check back a day on our blog! Read all about where the exercises and concept is from too. Today’s illustration is by student Johnathon Cooper.
We are starting a week of “Row, Row, Row Your Boat’ illustrations! This exercise is one of the assignments in our Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course and we are always amazed at the diversity of each students take on the…
Yada Benputtipong has created three absolutely wonderful studies for one of his assignments on the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. We are absolutely thrilled to be able to show them here on our blog for students to see. Each hare…
The following post has been taken from one of our History of Art students assignment al about the Hay Wain by Keith Phillips. We had such a fantastic response to our last History of art blog post we hope you enjoy…
My name is Tanya Narayan ad I have enrolled on the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. I am mostly a self taught person, lucky to have found London Art College and wish to improve more and more. I love the…
Drawing with Pens! We are thrilled to announce a brand new course for the London Art College called Drawing with Pens. Many budding artists will have seen that there are many hundreds of professional artists creating beautiful artwork these days…
We are looking for a new tutor to teach our Illustration Diploma Course. We require a tutor to become a member of our London Art College team. The tutor can work from home and teach students in their own time,…
Sabine Krappmann completed the Botanical Painting Diploma Course a few years ago and we thoroughly enjoy showing her work here on our blog. Isn’t this painting stunning! We hope our students will be inspired, not only students who are on…
Welcome to a fantastic piece of artwork today by student Ting Wei. Ting is studying the Illustration Diploma Course and from viewing her artwork below, it looks as though she is throughly enjoying it! Our illustration course covers a wide range of…
Beautiful coloured pencil artwork by today’s student Geoff Goodall. We have been admiring the lovely warm and light colours Jeff has used throughout his work and it really gives a lovely fresh feel to his drawings. They are also very well…
My name is Denise Norman and I have recently completed the Coloured Pencil drawing course. I have no art education or formal training, just a keen interest and a desire to produce something that I could be proud of. It has…
Sandhya Sharma has created a lovely selection of practice drawings in graphite pencil and sepia pastel for her practice assignments on the Life Drawing and Painting course. Some of the drawings Sandhya has been able to draw from life, some she…
Marianela Soto is studying the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma Course with tutor Maggy Roberts. Marianela contact me here at tech support with her artwork to ask about resizing the images for submitting in the ‘The Art Room’. Upon helping her…
We thought it would be great to collect a selection of the beautiful watercolour landscape paintings students have been creating on the Landscape Painting Diploma Course. We have so many beautiful paintings in all different mediums on file, that we…
Christine Amstutz completed our Drawing and Painting Diploma and here are a few of her pieces of artwork from the assignments on the course. We particularly love the painting of the pear. The colours Christine used along with the patterns and…
We have five very different pieces of artwork today from students who are studying on the Coloured Pencil Course. The course is very well rounded and it enables students to draw any subject that they would like whilst teaching coloured…
Three wonderful pieces of artwork today, from three different students all taking the Watercolour Diploma Course. The students have created a painting on the theme of boats and each are are very different from the other. We love the confident…