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Student Alfred Reid created this cartoon for Valentine’s day and we are thrilled to display it on our blog. Happy Valentines day everyone!
Welcome to our wonderful blog post filled with artwork by our students who completed our latest Weekend Challenge. Aren’t they all simply wonderful!! Students are able to copy from our photo or they can use their own still life set…
“A great solution to the brief The Cow who went looking for a friend by student Rachel Hey.”Maggy RobertsRead more about Rachel on her website – Rachel Hey and follow her on Instagram Panda_Crafts
My name is Sophie and since joining the Pet Portrait Diploma Course, I have learnt a tremendous amount and I can definitely see the progress I am making throughout the course. I never thought I would be able to create…
This weekends challenge is to draw or paint a glass bottle in sunlight. In any media, paint, collage, pencil, digital etc the choice is yours! You can use this photo below if you are inspired by it, or you can…
James Carson is 15 and is studying the SciFi & Fantasy Art Certificate Course with tutor John Byrne. This is James’ 2nd year studying with the London Art College. He received a distinction in his Graphic Design Diploma Course last…
My name Gwenda Reavley and I am taking the Pet Portrait Diploma Course with tutor Gayle Mason. Here is my pastel pencil picture of French Bulldogs Ralph and Hugo. They are my granddaughter’s much loved pets. Great practice for my…
We have received this beautiful painting from Dessi below, for inclusion on our College News Blog. Isn’t it wonderful! The reflections of the trees in the still water are beautiful. There is so much to look at and your eye…
Here are just a couple of the images posted on our Facebook group by students, Pauline Burke, Nicola Young and Magdalena Anna Piwowarczyk. If any of our students missed the post this weekend, we challenged our students to draw or paint…
Intro: I am thoroughly enjoy my Pastel course. I believe it has given me the opportunity to be more experimental In my art work with very helpful comments from Monika. My First pice of artwork. The flowing lines of this…
Welcome to this weeks – Weekend Art Challenge. We challenge you to turn off your TV and pick up your pencil and sketchbook, or your paintbrush and paper. You can even draw digitally on your ipad or tablet. Your challenge…
Kelly is studying with Alan Dedman on the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course and has emailed us some of her pieces from her final set of work. They are so colourful and beautiful and we are really pleased to be…
This blog post written by our lovely tutor Vanessa Weaver who teaches our Graphic Design Art Diploma Course. I want to celebrate the work of Rachel Malpass, who has recently completed the Graphics course with a distinction. Many of you…
Three wonderful pieces of artwork today from student Mark Highfield who is currently studying the Watercolour Diploma Course. We hope you enjoy viewing them!
Maggy Roberts, the tutor for the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course emailed me this wonderful image for our blog. We absolutly love the illustration and Sarah said to Maggy… “The exercise at first filled me with fear as I am…
My name is Alan McMahon, and the attached pictures are my submissions for the first assignment in the Colour Pencils Certificate course. I have been using coloured pencils for a number of years, but in particular, I have trouble illustrating…
Here is a great image of Fiery Fred from London Art College studet Ecaterina Boricean. The drama of the narrative is clear immediately and the viewpoint really adds to the storytelling.Maggy RobertsIllustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course
Today’s Spooky Saturday illustration is by London Art College student Melanie Stephenson….
Nola Sindel has created this beautiful botanical study of two peppers for one of her Botanical assignments. One green full pepper and one half cut red pepper. Nola’s use of watercolour washes and layers are beautiful in both studies. The…
Good news everyone, Lesley Ryan, one of my students based in Australia has just completed the Drawing & Painting Diploma Course with flying colours, passing with a Distinction! Lesley proved to be a naturally gifted artist with an enquiring and…
Thank you so much for inviting me to write about my artwork and thank you to my tutor Monika for her support and encouragement. I have really enjoyed the colour pencil course it covered a wide variety of subjects that…
Dear all,Thank you all so much for your kindness and support, I have enjoyed the course immensely! If I can find any arty employment or work experience following this I will be very happy. Kindest regards, Rosie Marnan.Graphic Design in Art Diploma…
Here is a beautiful piece from Maria Win, called ‘Dream’. Maria is currently working on my Watercolour Diploma Course. Ida Mitrani Text by Maria This is the foot bridge in Kachin Highland, the upper side of Myanmar, Burma. The photo was…
This week’s Spooky Saturday illustration is by London Art College student Danielle Kantola…..
Emma has uploaded these two images for her first assignment on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. They are both really brilliant and the orang-utan collage is one of the best solutions to this exercise that I have ever seen!…
Welcome to Claire Nicholson’s amazing illustration for an assignment on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. Clare has written a little about the illustrations below. Tutor Maggy Roberts was thrilled with Clare’s artwork and asked specifically for it to be…
Nina Tadsen is currently completing our Watercolour Diploma course. Tutor Ida has been so thrilled with Nina’s artwork she has asked her if she would consider enrolling the Botanical Watercolour Course. You’ll see why! You can also read about the…
Tutor Monique Piscaer Bailey has been working with a superb student on her Digital Illustration Course. Monique said… ….I am so proud to issue, Leonie Schottler a diploma. She has worked so hard and I’ve not seen this amount of…
A wonderful rendition of Sink City by London Art College student Marlies Mast. Scroll down to see the artwork in detail and read what both tutor maggy and Marlies has to say about her artwork. Maggy said… Here’s a lovely…
Hello everyone, My name is Monika Cilmi and I am the tutor for the Chinese Brush painting Course among a number of others. I am always happy to welcome new students on my course and if you have any questions…
We hope that you enjoy viewing the artwork of Melanie Stephenson below., Melanie is studying on our London Art College Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course and doing extremely well! Look at this lovely relationship between this cat and pigeon, I…
Nola Sindel studied on our Botanical painting course a few years ago however we never tire of posting her artwork for our students to see. This is a painting from one of her assignments on the Botanical Painting Course and…
Ann Bradford is studying our Beginners Drawing Online Art Course with tutor Ida Mitrani. Ann’s artwork is absolutely stunning and very blog worthy. We wanted to share it here to inspire other students in picking up a pencil and giving…
Christine Towndrow has completed a number of our London Art College courses and we wanted to show two of our favourite pieces that she completed during her time with us. These two ingenious paintings are digitally created and are a…
Samantha Wing is currently working through our Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course with the gentle guidance from tutor Maggy Roberts. Maggy asked for Samantha’s Firey Fred illustration to be posted here to inspire other students. We are thrilled, as we…
Normal hall completed the drawings below when she studied on the Coloured Pencil Drawing Course. Normal passed with flying colours and we wish her the best for the future!
Sabine Krappmann completed our Botanical Painting Course a number of years ago and these are some of Sabine’s final pieces to continue to inspire our students with. Sabines work is absolutely beautiful and we know that you will find each…
Beautiful illustration today by student Ingrid Rugel who studied with both Vanessa Weaver on our Graphic Design in Art course and John Byrne and his Sci Fi Fantasy course. Both courses work well together and many students combine their time…
We hope that you have enjoyed you festivities so far this year. It is now the last day to celebrate and we hope that you all have fun and enjoy yourselves. Happy New years Eve! Artwork by Julie Ann Maguire.
It was a Christmas wreath that started our Christmas countdown of 2018 and another beautiful watercolour wreath to bring it to a close. Painted by student Elena Statham.
Happy Holidays to everyone! We hope that you are all having fun wherever you are! Wonderful painting today by student Debra Gibson.
Did you kiss your loved one under the mistletoe this year? If not its not too late! Beautiful mistletoe artwork today by student Cherry Ferris.
We hope that you managed to catch a glimpse of Santa this year. If not, here is a wonderful portrait of him drawn and painted by Inari Johnson…
We trust that all of our students and readers of our newsletter had a wonderful Christmas day! We hope Boxing day will be relaxing for you. A great image today by student Chris Jaffe…
Hello everyone! My name is Ethne Dian and I am a London Art College Student studying the Illustrating Diploma Course. For me, this time of year is about celebrating the Winter Solstice — the triumph of light over dark. (Can…
Audrey Quinton created this illustration for us to use on our Christmas countdown and we absolutely love it! We have added a close up version too. The background watercolour with salt texture is wonderful! We hope that all of our…
Here is a wonderful watercolour painting from our competition winner this year Mike Masson. Isn’t it absolutely fantastic! We love it and hope you all do too!
Today we have two pieces of artwork, the top image is by student Elena Statham. The second digital piece is by Gayathri who has sent this wonderful message to us and all our students and readers below….. Hi All,My Season’s…
Stunning artwork today for our Christmas Countdown from London Art College student Magdalena Piwowarczyk
Here is another beautiful illustration from Audrey Quinton who has just started on our Cartooning Diploma course.
Now you know my secret! Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas! I am really enjoying the Cartoon Diploma Course. It has been of great benefit for me these past few months since I took the course in September. Thank you all…
My name is Gwen Reavley and here is my submission for this years Christmas countdown. It’s watercolour on Hot Pressed paper. Really enjoyed creating the detail of the Robin. Gwen Reavley
I’m Katie Lee , student of Illustrating Children’s Book course. I found that it would be great to share with you my festive artwork devoted to Christmas countdown. I’m beginner illustrator and making only the first steps, and I think College assisted me a lot…
Dear All, Merry Christmas to you all !!I am enclosing my recent Painting for Christmas !! Enjoy !!It is Acrylic painting of Landscape size 20″ X 20″. Subrata Bandyopadhyay
Today’s Christmas Countdown artwork is by student Audrey Quinton. Isn’t it wonderful!!
Todays Christmas Countdown image is by London Art College student Gisela Robinson…
I am Maria Ei Zar from D8 Watercolour Diploma course. Here is my own watercolour drawing for the Showcase of Christmas countdown.
‘Magic surrounds you when robins fly near … they bring Fairie blessings and Red-breasted cheer’ Cherry Ferris
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…