Author: London Art College
We have received this email and felt it was appropriate to post on our blog. If any of our students submit please let us know and we will display your artwork here too. ———————————————————– An art exhibition with a difference Capture Cure 2011 is…
New LAC Course – Understanding 20th and 21st Century Art I just completed writing a new LAC course for art history (and other students?) looking at modern and contemporary art – art from the 20th and 21st. century. Compared to…
Bill Muldowney contacted me a few days ago to let me know that he had been short-listed in the Wildlife Artist Of The Year competition and so I asked Bill if he would write a piece of our student news blog. I am thrilled to have had Bill as a…
We have had a lovely email from one of our students letting us know that they won the recent competition we profiled here on the London Art College news blog recently. Louise Broome, who studied the Children’s illustration course, won the Meisha EP Competition. If you would like to visit the…
An opportunity for one of our Children’s Illustration Students…. —————————————————– In summary, my eldest daughter – herself only 12 – has written a series of short rhyming stories ostensibly to entertain her younger sister and cousins. These stories are genuinely entertaining –…
Maggy Roberts contacted me today with this lovely piece of illustration work form one of her students to be added to the blog and gallery. There are so many vibrant colours and strong tones here, this is a superb illustration for children. I hope you…
This study of the chest and halter on a dog is from one of my top performing students currently working on the Pet Portrait Diploma Course. This students skills are superb and the painting below in Acrylics really shows the students skills off well….
These are two wonderful and very advanced drawings from a student who is currently studying with our tutor Nick Beall on the portraiture course. This student really enjoyed working with the hand drawing exercises and did many sketches from life and also took photos…
These sketches are form one of my Pet Portrait Diploma Students and I was so pleased when they came through for me to assess. This is a perfect way to study animals in your sketchbook, looking at the light, shadowing, detail in the eyes,…
Special Offers On Courses… Don’t forget you only have 7 more days to purchase our courses that are currently on offer. Selected Diploma Courses Normally £320 – NOW £275.00 (Overseas Students £290) D1 Drawing & Painting Diploma >> This is our Foundation…
We have been contacted by Scott Free Films Limited to ask if we will help publicise a competition to design a poster for their ‘Life In A Day’ film. It looks quite exciting, have a look at the trailer of…
We have just heard the news below from one of our students. We wish them the best of luck with the SAA Competition! Dana……”I’m chuffed that below painting made it into the SAA 2011 Artist of the Year competition and is…
We have received an email from a lady who is looking for a cartoonist to help her with her new project. Caits details and information is below. If you are the successful applicant please let us know! =============================================================== Hi. I am looking for…
This student has completed the Botanical Illustration course and this is just one of the wonderful pieces they have submitted during the course of their time with us. This is a lovely piece and we wish them the best of luck with…
Here are two versions of a poster created by a student who has just completed the Graphic Design course with Vanessa Weaver. Both posters have a great feel to them, the top one particularly catches the eye with the swirling light. I’m sure that this student will…
This is a very contemporary piece by a student who has been studying the coloured pencil certificate course. This image is very strong, and the colours the student has used to create the dark background are excellent. Its often better to use a variety of dark…
INTERNATIONAL PRINT BIENNALE The 2011 International Print Awards are the centrepiece of the International Print Biennale. The Awards are an open submission opportunity for British and international artists and are open to all artists whose work encounters print. Works in any…
For those of you who follow our student artwork blog regularly, you may have seen this poem illustrated by our young artist students before. It is fascinating to view the different approaches the young artists take when illustrating it and they do come up with some wonderful ideas and designs. The image…
This drawing is from one of my own students who has just completed the pet Portraits Diploma. Here the student has depicted a rabbit and guinea pig interacting together quite comfortably. Adding two animals together in a scene can be tricky, particularly if you are working from separate…
Another still life from a student studying the painting and drawing course, this time the flowers are accompanied by a mug and a vase. This brings new elements into the scene which allows the student to play with the light and shadows and reflective light…
Flowers make for a great subject when painting in watercolour as the medium is perfect for capturing the delicate, translucent petals. This student who is studying the Painting and Drawing Course has worked well with their wet in wet washed and darker tones in the background which help the flowers…
This really caught my eye this week when viewing the students work as I simply love a limited pallet painting. This student is currently studying the Oil Painting course written, illustrated and tutored by Alan Dedman, available from the London Art College as a distance learning course. The sepia and…
This is a very bold piece from a student who has just completed the Botanical Illustration course with the London Art college. This piece really exudes a bright and vivid colour which isn’t easy to achieve in watercolour. Well done to this student for a very successful piece.
While looking at some recent students work this caught my eye, again another coloured pencil drawing, this time of delicate flowers in a tub with a wall behind. It really stood out for me and I can feel a sense of warmth, sunshine and…
This wonderful coloured pencil drawing has been created by a current student on the Coloured Pencil Certificate course tutored by Julie Douglas. Julie is a great tutor, not only teaching this course but also the pastels course too. This student…
This image is from a current student who is studying under Vanessa Weaver our Graphic Design tutor. This student has designed a poster to advertise a Model Car Exhibition, following Vanessas brief. This image certainly catches the eye with the wonderful splash of colour.
Here we have a lovely piece of artwork by a young artist who has just successfully completed the Young Artists Course. The poem was written by Fred Starr and is something that our students can illustrate in their last set of work in…
Meisha are looking for talented artists to design artwork for their brilliant debut EP. Working with new artists in the past resulted in this stunning video from Alec Strang and Dickon Knowles. Meisha feel strongly about working with good people…
We have been alerted to an interesting article, very informative and inspirational for serious illustration students. If any of our students who are taking the Children’s Illustration Diploma course and are thinking of taking the step towards publishing, please read…
This is a piece of work by a young student who is currently taking the portrait course. This drawing is very expressive, the student has captured the look of the model and drawing people pulling faces can really help if you are learning. The wrinkles of…
This piece of artwork caught my eye while looking through the student artwork this week. it has been very well drawn and painted, the wet in wet techniques on the pears themselves is wonderful. Everything is very fresh and I hope this inspire you…
A graphic design student has created a super piece of artwork and has written about it below. The graphic design tutor Vanessa says…” It gives an insight into this students experience of applying a design to the computer. The result is terrific, achieving a bright,…
International Open Art Competition 2011 This contest is ‘open’ to both amateur and professional artists. Deadline for entries 30 April 2011 Entry Fee- £10 to submit up to 5 images. Please read details and rules for the contest for more…
Special Offer for a limited period only: Selected Diploma courses are offered with £45 discount (paying in full). UK Students normally £320 – today £275.00 Overseas students £290 D1 Drawing & Painting Diploma This is our Foundation course covering a wide…
This is an absolutely wonderful watercolour painting from one of our students, the painting is so full of life and vitality. I hope this painting inspires you all to get those watercolours out!
Here is a drawing from one of the students studying the coloured pencil course. This is a very fast and lively drawing of a dog, which focuses in on the eyes – which is where we tend to look first…
Here are three very well designed pieces of art work from a student studying our Graphic Design Diploma. I personally love the textures created behind the second and third images below, this student has excellent drawing skills and good use of colour.
Watercolour Diploma Course New Watercolour Diploma Course, now up and running. Written and illustrated by Jan Nesbitt Watercolour Course Page >> From basics to beyond….. Watercolours are in the news at the moment with the exhibition at the Tate, London,…
I was delighted with the outcome of these two pieces of work from Shirley Carter as they combine a number of aspects of learning from the Art in Graphic Design course. Students have to choose a minimum of one piece of work from…
We blogged about a competition recently where students created and submitted with designs to help raise money for the Sumatran Orangutan Society. The finalist designs are now online at the link below – go and see the fabulous designs for yourself! You can even…
————————————————————————- From time to time we are asked to contact our students by people not connected to the college in any way. We are happy to do this but students should be aware that this does not constitute any sort…
Derwent Logo Competition This is your chance to embellish our logo any way you want. Enter our competition and let your imagination run wild! Illustrate around it, over it, under it, or just simply add bling! All using Derwent products, of course! The…
We are now accepting entries to the Penguin Design Award, Puffin Children’s Prize and Penguin Adult Prize. To submit your entry please go to www.penguindesignentries.co.uk The closing date for the competition is 5pm on Friday 15th April. For full details of the…
The United Kingdom Coloured Pencil Society celebrates its tenth anniversary with a major event from 19th September to 1st October 2011. ‘A Celebration of Creative Art’ will include the 10th UKCPS Open International Exhibition (of pure coloured pencil work) a…
Recipes From The Cookery Book Of The Last Kandyan Dynasty One of our Graphic Design students has been working on a fantastic project to help collate a cookery book from old manuscripts used by the last Royal Dynasty in Sri Lanka. From…
This is a superb study of a tree in coloured pencil, one of our students completed this for their course and Julie Douglas, the coloured pencil tutor, was thrilled with the rendering, the colours and the use of the pencil…
One of my students on the Children’s Drawing Course sent their work in for me to assess and I was thrilled with this still life drawing of perfume spray bottles. Can you see how cleverly this young artist has created…
Maggy, the tutor for the Children book Illustration course, alerted me to this wonderful piece from a student who has illustrated Fiery Fred very successfully. I hope you all like it too!
I’m Jan (Jan Nesbitt) and I’m tutoring the Watercolour Course again and making some hopefully exciting additions and changes in the form of new thinking, new writing with useful information, and exchanging existing examples of my work in the course…
The London Art college have been presented an award by Reflect Magazine. Highlighting the College’s services to education, Reflect have awarded us a Certificate of Recognition for Creative Development and the article can be seen below. If you click on it, it will open in a new…
I am so pleased to be able to add this image to the London Art Colleges blog as this has to be one of my favourite images I have seen for a long time from one of our students. First of…
There are so many fantastic pieces of artwork coming through the college at the moment and this one is now exception. This is an absolutely wonderful life drawing study by one of our students and I think they should be extremely pleased…
What can we say about this apart from a truly superb study of a Cheetah in coloured pencil – terrific!
This drawing is from one of our students studying the Drawing for Children courses and the students are often asked to draw their games console or similar. The challenge is so that the young artist can have the opportunity to draw something shiny to…
This is another lovely piece of work from one of our students and the overall colour scheme to this piece really catches your eye – all using blues and yellows. The shapes are very important in this piece along with the strong light and shadows. An excellent pastel piece.
This painting has been completed by a watercolour student and they have used their colours well, almost a limited pallet and it really gives a lovely fresh feel to the scene. Their use of watercolour washes are great in the background, I hope…
Often the most interesting things to draw are old, broken, scrap objects. They can prove to be very interesting with their rusty textures, shadows and shapes. This is no exception, a student has drawn an old rusty car and rendered…
When you study with the London art College on the coloured pencils course, you are able to cover many subjects including portraiture. As you can see this student is currently experimenting with skin tones and facial features.
This has to be one of my favourite pieces I have seen from a student recently. I love the texture the student has created and the wonderful light in the scene. The overall colour scheme is excellent and I hope this inspires everyone who reads this…
This student has very cleverly added her work in progress along with her final portrait so that her tutor could view each stage of the process and how she created the image. You can see that the student went on a journey during the painting looking, drawing, changing, observing…
Our coloured pencil tutor Julie has just forwarded us some images she would like us to add to the blog and website and this is one of them. Its rendered in coloured pencil and the student has concentrated on the eyes which work well.
My name is Julie Douglas and I am the new tutor for the Pastels course. I already tutor the Colour Pencil course. My main interest is drawing, for observation and as a basis for painting and design, and pastels are a fantastic way…
Mark Nolan has very kindly written todays blog post for us, about his story in how he joined the London Art college Cartooning Diploma Course and his journey in working up to creating his first set for John Byrne to assess. I hope you…
This is a detailed close up of a children’s illustration of Firey Fred. Maggy our course tutor for the course has picked this one out as her favourite this week so well done to this student.
This is a wonderful drawing by one of my young students who has copied out the Teddy bear poem by Fred Starr and illustrated it beautifully. I particularly liked the way the artist used the teddy bear and his arms for the ‘T’ Superb!
This cartoon has stood out for me this week, its a well painted and drawn cartoon and I’m sure that the student who is currently studying our cartooning Diploma will be very successful in his chosen career. Hope you like it!
This illustration has caught my eye as it’s filled with movement and intrigue. It realy makes you study the drawing, which has been executed very well. I am looking forward to seeing more from this student in the coming months.
I’m sure those of you who order coffee while you are out, will find this cartoon from one of our students rather amusing! Excellent computer skills used here.
This really caught my eye when looking through the student artwork this week , it made me smile which is great as children’s illustration should give you feeling and emotions from the artwork. This creature looks quite scary but when we see…
Here is a lovely study from one of our Botanical students, it is a detail from their artwork. This is a very strong painting and really shows the velvety feel of the petals. We look forward to seeing more from this student.
Another children’s illustration student has gained a distinction on their course! We would like to congratulate Karien on her hard work and dedication through the course and wish her every success as an illustrator. If you would like to read more about Karien please take a look at our…
This is a submission from a current student who is on the cartooning Diploma course and this is an illustration to depict their design for a 40th birthday card….
This is a lovely example of some life drawing sent in by one of our students currently working through the painting and drawing diploma course. If you want to improve your drawing skills then a great way to do this is to attend local…
This illustration is from a student who has just completed the Children’s Book Illustration Diploma and she received a distinction for her wonderful work over the duration of the course. This is a very happy scene below and one that could quite easily be seen…