Category: Student Artwork

Gina Maldonado is currently studying with Maggy Roberts on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. Gina posted her illustration on our student forum for her fellow students to view and comment on. As soon as I saw it I knew it just…

We asked Jan if she would email us some of her pieces of artwork for the college website and blog and she very kindly send us three lovely pieces of work below. We are so pleased that Jan has developed…

Here is a recent piece of artwork from a student studying on our Pastels Certificate Course. The colours, textures and light here is absolutely superb, its a wonderful piece of observational drawing and we are thrilled to be able to…

Julie Ann Maguire wanted to share a little about her work and herself with our students and readers and we were delighted to share. Julie has just completed the Coloured Pencil Certificate course and we wish her every success in…

Stewart Roberts, tutor for the History of Art Diploma and Follow on course Understanding 20th to 21st Century Art Diploma, sent us a photo of one of his students helping cleaning some stones in Luxor. We were very interested to hear…

Ruth Bain’s designs for the logo brief in the Graphic Design Diploma course was a live brief and she has given the approval for us to use it on our blog. The final client choice can be seen in the…

Natalia got in touch with us to ask if we would be able to add some of her artwork to our student gallery. We were delighted to be able to add them and we took the opportunity to ask if…

We would like to thank Julie-Ann for sending us this wonderful piece of artwork for inclusion on our blog. Julie-Ann has written a small piece below to let us know how she got on with using the drafting film along…

Ursula has just passed the illustrating Children’s Books with Distinctions and tutor Maggy Roberts emailed me one of Ursula’s final pieces of artwork from the course. Its absolutely superb! I have added the full version below, along with a close…

We would like to officially congratulate Linda for passing her Portraiture painting course with Distinctions. Linda has worked extremely hard throughout the course and has learnt a lot on her journey. The self portrait below was created for the final…

This stunning piece of artwork was emailed to me for inclusion on the blog by our tutor Julie Douglas. One of her students who is studying the Drawing and Painting Diplma Course, Alla Nikolenko, created this wonderful watercolour as one…

We are pleased to announce here that Brenda who has just completed the Pet Portraits Diploma course has been awarded a Distinction and is on our honours list on our website. Brenda created some beautiful pieces of artwork throughout the…

The following post is written by one of our students Rachel Dawes who is currently studying with Vanessa Weaver on the Graphic Design in Art Diploma. We hope that you find Rachel’s post inspiring and interesting read! Congratulations to Rachel on…

Lucy has just received her distinction for passing the Illustrating Children’s books diploma with Maggy Roberts. One of Lucy’s images are blow. We wish Lucy the best of luck in her illustrating career!

We thought that this piece of recent artwork from one of our Coloured Pencil students would be a great way to start the new year off on our blog. Amelia has created a beautiful drawing here and we hope that…

Jonathan Cooper has just passed the Illustrating children’s books diploma with distinctions can now be seen on our honours list >> I have added one of Jonathan’s final pieces below along with a close up detail of the illustration. We have…

Judy Elizabeth Wilson, received her certificate this week for successfully passing the Illustrating Children’s books diploma course with distinctions. Judy recently illustrated ‘The Magic Walnut’ which you can read more about below and view a few illustrations form the book…

Here is a beautiful illustration from one of our students studying with Maggy Roberts on the illustrating children’s books diploma. This is for the Row, Row, Row your boat exercise. Superb coloured pencil techniques, wonderful colours used and overall a…

This is a wonderful illustration from one of our students who has passed the Illustrating children’s books course with Distinctions. This illustration was also a finalist for this years London Art College Art competition. We are sure this student will…

We have two wonderful talented students who have just received distinctions for completing the Illustrating Children’s book course and the follow on course. We hope that the artwork below is inspiring to all of our budding illustrators out there! Congratulations…

We have recently updated all of our galleries on our website so pop over and take a look at the new student artwork coming through. London Art College Student Art Gallery >> Here is a brand new image from a…

Hi my name is Celia Carlile and I’ve just been invited to write something here about my new book ‘The Christmas Song‘. In 2010 after some unsuccessful attempts at writing and illustrating  children’s picture books I went online to find…

My name is Margaret Orchard. I am writing this having just learnt that I have won the LAC Competition for 2013. I am absolutely thrilled to have won and would like to congratulate Alexandra for her delightful depiction of her cat…

Rachel Morrison has just started the Graphic Design Art Diploma course after already completing the Children’s Book Illustration course and currently studying its follow on course too! Vanessa Weaver, the Graphic Design tutor, emailed us a piece of Rachel’s artwork to…

An amazing story from one of our Illustrating Children’s books students Jacqui…….. ———————————————- A few years ago I was lucky to be given the London Art College Illustrating Children’s Books course by a good friend. I love working through the…

I was really over the moon to receive runner up in the LAC Competition 2013 for “Boris my Bengal” My name is Alexandra, and I live in Maidstone, Kent. I have been married to Alan, a forestry consultant, for 33…

We have two pieces of typographic work to blog today from a student who is currently studying on the Graphic Design in Art Diploma course with Vanessa Weaver. Ella Chambers has put a lot of thought and time into the…

Vanessa Weaver, tutor for the Graphic Design Art Diploma course, emailed her student Carlenes artwork along with accompanying text which Carlene submitted with her work. Vanessa felt that other students would be really interested to read it on the college…

Tutor Vanessa Weaver has sent us two pieces of wonderful artwork for our blog. The artwork has been completed by Ruth who is currently studying with Vanessa on the Graphic Design Art Diploma. Vanessa has commented on her pieces which you…

Gabrielle emailed me to ask if we could add her artwork to our gallery. We are always delighted to hear from our students and happy to add artwork to our student gallery at any time. Having viewed Gabrielle’s images, I emailed…

This is a wonderful piece of artwork that was created by Annemarie, a student who has just gained a distinction on our Illustrating children’s Book Diploma course with Maggy Roberts. What a happy spider to have found his forever home!…

Here are some wonderful photos a student took whilst working on the exercise ‘Row, Row, Row your Boat’ for the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma course with Maggy Roberts. The student has produced a wonderful illustration and I have added a…

One of our Photography Diploma students has been studying the shape and form of cabbages and has taken two very interesting photos for his assignments. The droplets of water are superb, the colours are vibrant and we wish this photography…

One of my students who is currently studying the Pet Portraits Diploma Course has created the most beautiful pastel portrait of their cat. The portrait captures the soul of this little feline, the eyes have been beautifully executed and the…

Vanessa, the tutor for the Graphic Design Art Diploma has sent a wonderful piece of artwork to showcase on the blog. Vanessa has said that the solid dark area in the foreground really helps the viewer to establish the main…

We recently posted about the ‘Something to Shout About’ conference and one of our students, Jane Sunbeam, who is currently on our Illustrating children’s books diploma course, attended the conference and summer school. Jane has very kindly written about her…

Larisa, a student who completed the Botanical Diploma Course in June has just emailed me some of her artwork for our website and blog. I have added Larisa into the honours list and posted her artwork below. We would like…

Eva Cano has just passed the Graphic Design Art Diploma course with flying colours and one of her pieces is shown below. We hope that Eva has a very long and successful career in graphic design.

We would like to congratulate Mani for successfully passing the Portrait painting course with Distinctions. One of Manis pieces is below and I ahve added a few others in the student gallery. We wish Mani the best of luck in…

Sarah Lister is currently studying with Maggy on the Illustrating Children’s book Diploma course and she has emailed us her entry for the ‘Illustrate it’ competition. The judges are definitely going to have a hard time choosing the winner and…

Lucy, studying on the Illustrating Children’s book course, has also entered the Illustrate It competition and you can see her entry below along with a detail of her beautiful illustration. We wish Lucy all the best with the competition! ——————————————————————————-…

I asked Jon, a student who is currently studying with Maggy Roberts on the Illustrating children’s books, if he would write about his sink city painting for the blog. I was very interested to hear how he created the piece…

Kasia Gudacz emailed to ask if we would add her entry to the illustrate-it competition. We were more than happy to! Kasia has written about her entry below and we wish her the best of luck in the competition. If any…

This piece of artwork has been waiting in my inbox for a while to blog and so at last here it is! The student gained a distinction for passing her Graphic Design Art Diploma with Vanessa Weaver. We love the…

This is a piece of artwork from a student on the Pet portrait Diploma Course and I felt it was absolutely blog worthy! I have another piece id like to blog created by this student, however I will save it…

Daniel is currently studying the Illustrating Children’s Books diploma with Maggy Roberts and had posted his latest piece on the student forum. I thought that it would make a wonderful blog post. Daniel was happy to write about his work…

Lisa Watkins is currently studying our Pet Portrait Diploma Course and one of the exercises in the course took her on an amazing journey travelling all the way to to Romania…..It has been published in the magazine coloredpencilstudent.com and we are very…

Danette Byatt is currently studying our Illustrating Children’s books Follow on Course, however has taken some time out to enter into the Illustrate It Competition. Danette has written a little about how she came up with the ideas for her entry…

Rachel Carpenter has just completed the Graphic Design Art Diploma and has passed with flying colours gaining a distinction. One of her final pieces is shown below. We have also included Rachel’s text which accompanied her work submitted to tutor…

Lisa, a current student just starting out on the Drawing and Painting Diploma course has completed one of her first exercises. She has asked if we can blog the artwork just in case other students have any advice for her….

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Debi has allowed us to post an in progress photo of her artwork here on the blog. Debi posted this on the forum and I just loved her painting with all the paints and brushes. If you have any ‘in…

Vanessa has emailed me a lovely piece of student artwork today which I thought would make a perfect blog post. Vanessa has written about it below. Congratulations to this student for a fantastic poster! ————————————————————— This work is of a…

We have featured artwork from Christine Towndrow within the last month, she has already completed our Cartooning Diploma and our Graphic Design Diploma with flying colours. She is now studying our Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma with Maggy Roberts. Christine has just created a website for…

We have updated our Chinese brush painting Gallery on our website and have created a new Chinese brush painting gallery on our Facebook page. Pop over there to take a look! London Art College Facebook Albums >>

We have updated the Pet Portraits Diploma Course Student Gallery recently with lots of lovely new student artwork. The image below is just one of the new pieces we have added. Why not pop along to view the gallery, along with some…

One of my students has just completed the ‘close up exercise’ on the Pet Portraits Diploma course and I feel Carolyn has done a superb job with this pastel portrait and fulfilled the exercise beautifully. Well done Carolyn!

One of our illustrating Children’s books students, Lucy, tackled the walking the dog exercise so well, I asked if she could explain how she came up with her designs for our blog. As you can see below, her preparation drawings and final piece is excellent. I…

One of our graphic design students has passed her course with flying colours and has been awarded a distinction. Vanessa Weaver, who tutors the Graphic Design Diploma course has sent me some of Christine’s work for the website and you can see two of her pieces below. We…

Jenna Whyte completed the Sci Fi Fantasy course a few years ago and has emailed us to let us know she has just released a new book called ‘The Illustrated Guide to the Elements’. Jenna Said – “The Illustrated Guide…

Congratulations to one of our photography students, Nicola Cooper is a winner! Here’s the text from her newspaper article… ———————————————————————— A FORMER quiz show hostess who gave up her TV career to move to rural Wales has won a national photography competition…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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?