Author: London Art College
A student who is currently studying on the Botanical Course tutored by Sandrine Maugy, has emailed me her most recent work to add to the Student gallery, which I updated today. Sue’s illustrations are beautiful and you can see one of them below, along with…
We have just updated our Chinese Brush Painting Gallery with lots of lovely new student artwork, one of which is below. Monika Cilmi, the tutor for the course emailed me some lovely pieces of artwork and this one really stood out for me so I felt…
This is a piece of work from one of our students studying on the Children’s Drawing course. Catrin has now completed her course and her final piece is below. She was asked to illustrate a poem written by Fred Starr and we think…
We have received information above the 3×3 picture show competition for our illustration students to enter. Please note we are not affiliated with this competition in any way. 3×3 Picture Book Show – Deadline: May 3, 2013 Information about the competition here >>…
I am sure that this wonderful illustration will put a smile on everyone’s faces today. A student completed it for the Children’s Illustration Course Diploma and it caught my eye, so colourful and rich.
We are pleased to announce we have a new tutor on the D1 Drawing and Painting Diploma course – Paul Weaver. He will be sharing students with Alan Dedman who also tutors for this course. Paul Weaver is a superb…
Having posted an Easter post yesterday with ‘happy’ Easter illustrations, Robert, a student who is currently studying the children’s illustration course was prompted to email me his version of Humpty Dumpty. Robert said…”Seen the lovely pics on the blog, but not all eggs fare so well in children’s verse!” How…
We would like to wish all of our students a very Happy Easter and thank you to both Heather Robertson and Judy Elizabeth Wilson for sending us these Easter images for us to specifically use for our Easter post this…
Alan Dedman, one of the tutors for the Drawing and painting Diploma Course alerted me to a students wonderful artwork yesterday and asked if some of the pieces can go on the website and blog. I will be updating the website gallery soon, but…
Lets Paint Magazine have teamed up with the London Art College as you can see from the screen captures of this months Lets Paint magazine below. If you would like to download your very own free copy, just click the link below and enjoy!!…
We were thrilled to hear that one of our photography students entered into a Sony photography competition in conjunction with The Metro and The World Photography Organisation and has been chosen as the regional winner for Wales. Nicola Cooper is currently studying with Rona Cox on…
This student has produced two amazing drawings for the Pet Portraits Diploma Course, you can also see them in our Pet Portraits Student gallery. The top drawing has been rendered in coloured pencil, the lower in graphite pencil. We hope they inspire!
Gabrielle Marlow emailed the college recently to let us know of some fantastic news and how she was getting on after completing the pet portraits diploma with myself. I am always thrilled to hear from my past students and love…
On my daily travels moderating the student forum, helping out where ever I can with students questions and artwork, I happened upon this fabulous watercolour created by a student studying our Drawing and Painting Diploma. One of the submissions for…
We have received this poster through to add to our blog just in case students are interested in entering. As always we are not affiliated with the competitions posted here. If you enter and are successful let us know!
Vanessa Weaver, tutor for the Graphic Design Diploma, emailed me recently to ask if I would add one of her students artwork on the blog and website. Christine is doing extremely well and you can see some of her recent work below. Vanessa said… “Christine has…
Julie Douglas emailed me a wonderful piece of artwork completed by one of her students currently studying on the coloured pencil course.You can now see this piece in our student gallery. Why not take a look around at some of the delightful…
I saw this piece of artwork while on the London Art College Forum, it was created by Jon, who is currently studying with tutor Maggy Roberts on the Illustrating Children’s books Diploma. This piece particularly caught my eye, not only for the superb wet…
This is a very spooky piece of artwork from a student who is currently studying with tutor Maggy Roberts on our Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. I think this illustration would definitely capture children’s imagination…what do you think?
Here are two submissions from the same student currently studying the pet Portraits Diploma. The student has excelled in these mediums, the Labrador was painted in oils and the puppy was drawn in pastel on velour and both of these portraits are superb. The student should…
As many of you may know the Photography Diploma Course is a relatively new course that the London Art College has recently introduced and it is becoming extremely popular with students signing up every day. Rona Cox, who has written the course showing many examples of…
Tutor Julie Douglas emailed me two wonderful pieces of artwork by a student who is currently studying on the Pastel Certificate course. I have already added them to the student gallery and thought it would be great to post them here…
This piece of artwork caught my eye in the student area and I just had to add it to the blog. Isn’t it wonderful! You can really imagine standing there in Australia between those beautiful mountains. Fabulous colours – congratulations to a very talented student.
Here is another lovely piece of work that Maggy has emailed me from one of her students Lovely bright colours, a piece of artwork that’s definitely making a splash!
This is a lovely illustration from one of our students currently studying on the Illustrating children’s books diploma with Maggy. Wonderful colours and watercolour techniques used here.
We have received another email from an individual who’s currently publishing a children book and needs some illustrations to go with it. If you help out do let us know. We cannot endorse this project, we are merely passing on the information! ———————————————————— I am currently in…
Here is another opportunity, this time for children’s illustration students. Good luck and if you are involved in the project let us know! ———————————————————————– I am writing to ask if any of your students would like to illustrate any of my next children’s books….
Here is another opportunity for a cartooning student this time, please note that the college are only passing on this information, we are not endorsing these opportunities. Good luck and let us know if you are the successful applicant. ——————————————————- Opportunity, for an enthusiastic…
We have received the following details from Oliver Carew from Illustrate it. It looks to be quite an exciting competition. If any of our students enter, let us know! ———————————————————————– In the coming few weeks I am due to launch an international online illustration…
We would like to congratulate Andrea for successfully passing the pet Portraits Diploma course in distinctions. Andrea emailed us a photo of an article her local newspaper which you can view and read below. Andrea said….”I’ve never been in the paper before…I am really…
Gay Mckinnon successfully completed our Children’s Book Illustration Diploma in 2011 and she has just published her first book as an illustrator. Gay told us that the diploma definitely helped her and she has written a little piece describing how………
One of our students who has recently completed the the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Certificate, has emailed us an update as to how shes getting on now she has completed her course. it sounds as though she is doing very well…
Maggy asked Sara, a student currently studying on the Illustrating Children’s Books illustration diploma, if she would email me a copy of one of her wonderful pieces of artwork for the college news blog. Sara has very kindly written about herself and the artwork below. ———————————————————————————– Sara Wyche…
Here is a wonderful piece of artwork from a student currently studying on the Children Illustration Course Diploma. Isn’t it wonderful! I think the dragon is laughing at the irate lady and her rolling pin. This illustration would be perfect in…
One of my Pet Portraits students has completed their course and passed with distinctions and you can find a detail of the painting below on the honours list page. I asked Lisa if she would be able to write a little about the Woodpecker painting and…
Ian Emerson has recently completed our graphic design diploma course with Vanessa Weaver and mentioned to Vanessa that he had been involved in a wonderful project with the ‘Living Memory Association’. Read and view Ian’s story below along with viewing his work….
One of my pet portraits students sent a wonderful piece of artwork through to me this week to be critiqued. The brief was to create a surreal portrait and Barbara has created a fabulous portrait of her cat Chef Athos. Such a lovely…
We would like to wish all of our students a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Here’s to a very successful and creative 2013! Also thank you to Angela, one of our students on the Pet Portraits Diploma course for allowing us to use her Robin drawing which…
Having just assessed one of my students work on the Pet Portraits Diploma Course, I was thrilled to see this painting of a Rooster that she had done. What a superb painting, it just had to be added here to…
Here is a wonderful piece of artwork emailed to me by one of the Chinese brush painting students, to add to the student gallery. Isn’t it beautiful!!
Here is another of my students artwork, a lady studying on the Pet Portraits Diploma Course and this was from her first set. She is progressing extremely well with her pencil work and I’m really looking forward to seeing what…
We have received an email from Dominic Leyton and are posting it on our blog in case any of our students are interested in working with Dominic. We are in no way affiliated with Dominic Leyton, we have no knowledge about the project and are only passing…
This is a beautiful piece of artwork from one of my own students who is currently studying on the Pet Portrait Diploma. This student has understood the structure of the dog well and is progressing extremely well with her pastel…
What a wonderful and inspiring story, written by Lynn, who has just passed the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course with Distinctions. We hope Lynn enjoys the extension course with Maggy and we wish her the very best of luck with her future illustrations! ————————————————— My…
Victoria Edwards has just completed the Graphic Design Art Diploma Course receiving a distinction. We would like to congratulate Victoria on working so well though her course and we are sure that she will go far in her creative endeavours. Vanessa Weaver, the Graphic Design Course tutor,…
Norma submitted her work to Julie Douglas who tutors the coloured pencil extension course which Norma is currently studying on. I emailed Norma to ask if she would write a little something about her cat portrait for our college news blog. We would like to thank Norma officially…
Caroline is a new student on the Illustrating Children’s book course and she posted her painting of ‘Row Row Row your boat’ on our student forum. I was so taken with it I asked if Caroline would write a little about it for our blog. I hope you…
We have received an email from Paul O’Brain and are posting it on our blog in case any of our students are interested in working with Paul We are in no way affiliated with Paul, we have no knowledge about the project and are only passing…
16 year old Sunita Hodgson is currently taking the Graphic Design Diploma course with Vanessa Weaver and Vanessa asked if Sunita could write a little about one of her cartoons for the college news blog. I’m sure you will find it inspiring and I hope you…
The following text and images are by Claire, a very talented student who has just completed both the Illustrating Children’s Books (D6) and the follow on Extension course. We would like to thank Claire for taking the time to write a piece for our college news blog and we wish her…
We have our first pieces of artwork from our first student on our new correspondence course – Chinese Brush Painting! We would like to thank Janet for writing the piece below about her artwork and allowing us to display it both here and in our student gallery. We are looking forward…
A lovely testimonial from a Watercolour Diploma Student………… ————————————————————————- I am delighted to have received a distinction for my Watercolour Diploma. I enjoyed the course and the challenge of painting subjects which I have not attempted before and feel like I have…
Maggy Roberts, our Illustrating Children’s book tutor, asked if Jenny could write something for our college news blog. Jenny passed the Illustrating children’s books course with distinctions and she is in the process of writing children’s stories for publishers. Below are Jenny’s experiences from the course. —————————————————————- For…
I asked Nicola if she would be able to chat about her wonderful photograph below for our college news blog. Nicola is currently studying the Photography Diploma Course (D10) with Rona Cox and is enjoying every minute. I hope you enjoy Nicola’s post below. ———————————————————- Hello everyone, My name is Nicola…
We have received some beautiful artwork this week to add to the website and blog and I have added one of them below. This is a piece of work from the portraiture course and this student has completed two studies of eyes…
We add students to our honours list on our website regularly with students who have passed their course with flying colours. This week was the turn of a drawing and painting diploma student called Ulrike and when I saw her work, I thought we just…
In this jubilee year, the art world has inspired lots of talented individuals to participate in art competitions with Britain at the heart of their theme. New student, Julie Ann Maguire, who joined the Portraiture Certificate course in January this year,…
As a tutor for the college and also being an artist myself (Melanie Phillips pencil pet portraits)I quite often have art catalogues drop through my letter box and one of the regular suppliers that I order from is Ken Bromley Art Supplies….
This piece of lovely artwork was created by one of our current students studying the Illustrating Children’s books Diploma. Maggy has requested it to be on the website and I thought it would make a great blog post. Don’t forget…
We are pleased to announce this years winner and runner up for our 2012 London Art College Art competition. All of the tutors and admin staff who attended this years annual conference had the difficult task of choosing a winner…
The London Art College Admin staff and Tutors have just returned from the annual tutors conference. Unfortunately not all tutors and admin staff were able to attend, however we still had a good turn out, as you can see from the group photo below….
Our annual art competition for our students has come to a close for another year and we have now posted all of the entries and finalists online for you to peruse! We had a fantastic response this year with a whopping 84 entries. There were so many…
Having seen this illustration posted in our student forum, I thought it would be a fabulous one for the blog and student gallery. I have added the full illustration of the ‘Row, Row, Row your boat’ painting below, along with a close up of…
On my travels sorting out admin in the student area I stumbled across a student who is currently studying the Graphic Design Diploma, who has submitted their work for submission. All of the images drew me in and following the progression and the creative…
David Shepherds Wildlife foundation team have emailed us the press release below for our college news blog. I hope it is of some interest to some of our younger readers! ======================================================== Press Release: Animal Friends Insurance teams up with the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation to…
I thought this was an extremely clever image created by one of our Science Fiction and Fantasy course students. I hope you find it interesting!
We are receiving some fabulous work through at the moment, everyone must be in a very creative mood! This is a piece of artwork from a student currently taking the Illustrating children’s books and Maggy has just emailed it to me for the blog. Don’t you…
I asked one of our students who has just completed the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma (D6) and received a distinction for his work, if he would write a little about his work and experiences through the course. It has been an extremely interesting read and I hope al budding illustrators out there,…
Maggy has just emailed me this wonderful piece of artwork from one of her students and we felt it just had to be added to our blog today. A star pupil in the making. I can see this student going…
This is a wonderful coloured pencil portrait from one of my own students. The time taken over this drawing can definitely be seen here and it has really paid off. Coloured pencil is a time consuming medium, it cant be hurried. My usual advice for students is to have one on…
Click on the image below to view details of the David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013 competition….
Our Portraiture tutor Julie Dougglas has emailed me a wonderful piece of students work which she received for critique this week. Its beautifully laid out and annotated. More and more students are using the computer to collate their work which is great for our tutors, the…
This piece of artwork caught my eye today, a Drawing and Painting Diploma student created this lovely watercolour rural scene. The student has used some wonderfully soft, wet in wet washes for the sky, allowing the colours to blend. They haven’t been…
This is one of my favourite pieces of artwork at the moment, its by a lovely student called Nancy who has completed a couple of courses with the London Art College. The creativity in this piece is superb, i love…
This wonderful piece of artwork has come to my attention this week, its absolutely beautiful. Not only covering the botanical illustration side of things it feels quite contemporary too. Well done to this student and I hope it inspires students…