Author: London Art College
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…
Tanisha Sharma has created a very bold collage for one of the assignments on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. All students who enrol on the course experiments with collage during their time with us. We have found a very…
Some amazing and very imaginative artwork today by London Art College student Peter Shorney. Peter is studying our Science Fiction and Fantasy course, tutored by our lovely cartoonist John Byrne. Peters artwork is full of colour and movement which is important…
We have lots of Young Artists studying with us at the London Art college. Our Drawing for Children Courses are perfect for little ones who enjoy drawing at their kitchen table and we cover ages from 7 to 14 with…
Pauline Fallows has been working on the Portrait Painting course with tutor Alan Dedman. We have added a few of Pauline’s paintings that she has produced while completing the assignments. Our favourite painting of Pauline’s has to be the top…
Ina Haigis studied with tutor John Byrne on our Cartooning Diploma Course and created these two cartoons for her assignments. We have a number of our cartoonist posting on our London Art College facebook group. If you havent yet joined,…
Superb drawing today by Drawing and Painting student Amanda Reid. Isn’t it wonderful!! If you would like to gain a good grounding in general drawing and painting, this course could be for you. It can help you in your goals to…
Emma Allen studied our Children’s illustrating course a number of years ago, however we never tire of seeing Emma’s work. We love adding her assignment work onto our blog as inspiration for our illustration students. Once you have studied her…
Christine Towell has created some beautiful and very colourful pieces whilst studying the Chinese Brush Painting Course with tutor Monika Cilmi. The pinks and red colours Christine has used are fantastic, the paintings are full of life and very pretty….
Sunita Baruah studied our Beginners Drawing Course and has produced some stunning drawings in pencil, coloured pencil and pen and ink. The drawing course is an excellent beginners course, or refresher course, if you haven’t drawn for sometime. It’s a…
A stunning painting today in watercolour by botanical artist and student Nola Sindel. It is an absolutely beautiful painting and I’m sure that it will leave all of our readers completely inspired.
Deimante Bruzguliene completed both of these stunning drawings whilst studying on the Portrait Painting and Drawing Course. Deimante’s drawings show confidence in her lines and shading. The hand was drawn from life. It is really helpful for students to be able…
Pauline Manderville has created a wonderful illustration for her Fiery Fred assignment on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. We love the way Pauline has given the dragon a very 3 dimensional effect by painting him separately with a marbled effect…
Elisabeth Planella has been experimenting very successfully whilst on our Oil Painting Course using impasto techniques. Elisabeth submitted both of these two pieces for one of her assignments on the course. We love them both, particularly the flower study. It…
Student Martina Zielinska Bentayou has created this illustration for the Children’s Book Illustration Course. Maggy Said… A really well drawn and creative reposes to one of the exercises on the course by Martina.
Laivi Poder has just completed her Diploma for the Illustrating children’s books with tutor Maggy Roberts. Maggy was thrilled with Laivi’s artwork and asked if her final illustration could be showcased here on our blog. Laivi said at the start…
Todays blog post by tutor Vanessa Weaver…. I’ve got some super work from the Graphics course by Rachel Malpass to show today. One piece is a book jacket design, there other the front face for a box of teabags. For…
This years London Art College 2018 competition is now open!! Please check the size of your images prior to sending. Make sure they are at least 1000 pixels wide. If you can name your files your full name and student…
My name is Shubhangi Jain and I am taking the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. I have always been interested in drawing and was keen to learn painting. The art course here gave me a perfect opportunity to learn at my…
Wonderful painting by Amanda Cumming who is currently enrolled on the Oils Certificate Course. Amanda said… This is my first attempt at using a palette knife. If this is is Amanda’s first try at painting with a pallet knife, we are really…
Sally Broderman has been working with tutor Maggy Roberts on the Illustrating Children’s book diploma course. The illustration below is a doiuble page spred that Sally design for one of her assignments. We absolutely love it and Maggy was thrilled….
We have three wonderful pieces today from three different students who are studying our Graphic Design Art Course. Ruth Bain, Senila Sen Gupta and Blanca Melendez Del Castillo have excelled at their assignments. I hope that you will agree created three very…
My name is Yeliz Hakki and I started studying ‘Illustrating Children’s books‘ with London Art College in 2014, as I loved drawing and loved Children’s books, especially Dr Suess! I wasn’t sure if it would ever transpire into anything, but…
This weeks Spooky Saturday Illustration is by London Art College student Natasha Chambers
My name is Mary Hardman and I am studying the Chinese Brush Painting with the London Art College. I took this course as I love Chinese paintings, simple as that, and I wondered if I would be able to apply…
A wonderful Fiery Fred illustration today by student Stephen Goldsack who is studying our Children’s Illustration Course with Maggy Roberts. Stephen sent in a lovely written message for Maggy which we have enclosed also. Stephen is doing a fantastic job with…
I have a beautiful piece of student work to share, it’s from Janet Malone. She chose to represent China whilst studying on my Graphic Design Art Diploma Course and has put together a super digital illustration. I particularly like the…
My name is Tanisha Sharma and I am currently taking the Children book Illustration course with my tutor Maggy Roberts. I am a graphic designer by profession but I always wanted to get into Children book illustration. Am glad that…
Beautiful work today, to make you all smile, on this lovely Monday morning! Student Christine Towell completed these for one of her assignments on the Chinese Brush Painting Online Art Course. Visit our website to read more about the course if…
Student Kathryn Barstow’s work is absolutely beautiful and you can read about Kathryn below. I have no formal training in Art. I studied Geology at Manchester University, then went into teaching Science at a secondary school. I left teaching after 14…
These stunning Watercolour paintings have been created by student Esther Geh, who studied on our Watercolour Diploma Course. They are simply delightful to view. We acknowledge Ethers skill in being able to create fresh, warm and vibrant colours, all with…
Annabel Bishop has created some wonderful studies for her Coloured Pencil Online Art Course and we have gathered a few of them here for you to view. Whilst practicing coloured pencil techniques it is much easier to work on still…
The final day in our week of Row, Row, Row your Boat illustrations today. We have left our favourite illustration to last and it is by student Joanne Gore. We absolutely love this one. If you look at the detailed…
We hope you have been following our blog this week. We are on our fourth day of illustrations from students who are studying on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. The assignment is Row, Row, Row your Boat and Jo…
We have featured Emma Allen’s Row, Row, Row your Boat illustration previously on our blog, however we felt it required another post as we love it so much. We hope students find it as inspirational as we do! Emma studied on…
A unique take on the Row, Row, Row your Boat assignment today by student Cheryl Parkhouse, for the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma Course.
We are starting a week of illustrations from students who are studying with Maggy Roberts on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. More specifically the Row, Row, Row your boat assignment. We receive so many wonderful illustrations from this assignment…
We were absolutely delighted to receive these photos from Ridhi and her mum Archana Bahri Khanna with their certificates. Ridhi has just completed her diploma in Drawing and Painting, and her mum completed the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma a few…
Post by Vanessa Weaver Graphic Design Art Course. I have three pieces of work from different students on my Graphic Design Art Course, which I felt would be perfect to showcase on the college’s blog. They are all from the…
My name is Veronica Makarein. I’m currently a student with London Art College, completing my Diploma of Illustration. Here’s a few pieces that I’ve worked on, all entirely painted with watercolours except for the logo which was digital. Please enjoy….