Welcome to our latest art challenge. This week we would like you to find a photo of yourself, or look in the mirror and turn yourself into a cartoon! To do this you can enhance your features, for instance, if…
Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge results. We definitely have something to crow about today! Aren’t all of these rooster paintings and drawings amazing! We love them all. What a fantastic subject to choose for our art challenge this…
We would like to officially welcome Heather Rooney to the London Art College as our new Graphic Design tutor. Heather will be taking over some of our current students as well as new students enrolling. Students who haven’t submitted assignment…
As a youngster I loved art, but training to be a Doctor and having a family always got in the way! After retiring I started drawing watercolour birthday cards for friends and family but needed advice and direction. I started…
Brian Spencer has just completed our Photography Diploma Course with tutor Rona Cox. Rona said of Brians work…. “The planning his work went through was amazing and the thoroughness of his note taking of camera settings and his thought processes…
I am having an exhibition to show some of my recent work. The gallery is in Brecon (UK) and I will be showing about 20 pieces of landscape paintings based on Welsh places. Some close to home and some from…
Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge. This time the challenge is very simple. All you need to do is draw or paint a rooster! Can be any rooster, any colour and in any style. Most of all enjoy it…
Welcome to our amazing collection of paintings and drawings on the theme of Desserts. By the time you have viewed them all, we guarantee you will be craving something sweet! Our featured image is by student Aggie Choy who has…
Hi All – a while ago, I took John Byrne’s marvellous cartooning class at the London Art College and thoroughly enjoyed it ! John is part of a rather small group of teachers and now mentors who helped me realize…
Janet is currently studying on our Watercolour Diploma Course tutored by Steven Hersey. Steven said… I think Janets painting is superb. A great example of skill and vision in the composition and painting qualities. A view of a holiday scene,…
Gelise has just completed her Drawing and Painting Diploma Course with a Distinction. Tutor Paul Weaver said … “Gelise has been a pleasure to teach, always very thorough and creative, producing some great work during the course. The male nude was drawn with…
We hope no one is on a diet….. because it might be a good time to have a cheat weekend! As this weekends art challenge is all about desserts! Perhaps not so much about cake, but more about unctuous gooey,…
Did you all have a lovely Valentines Day? We hope that the cards and paintings that you all created for our Valentines Weekend Art Challenge were well received by your loved ones! What a wonderful collection of paintings and drawings…
I love experimenting with Watercolour and Acrylic Inks. My painting was worked in Watercolour and Acrylic Inks. The sky was worked wet into wet. The foreground was a heavy wash of pigment with Acrylic Ink dropped in. I then used Florists…
We have a wonderful selection of work today from a very talented student. Margaret Brown has passed the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course with a Distinction and tutor Paul Weaver was thrilled with her work and said…. “Margaret has been…
Another amazing selection of artwork from London Art Student Lauren McPhee who has completed the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course with a Distinction. Lauren can be found proudly on our honour list on our website. We hope you enjoy viewing…
Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge. We are ‘on topic’ this weekend with a Valentines Day theme. Why not create a card for your loved one entitled ‘Be My Valentine’. The ideas are endless and we will leave the…
What a wonderful collection of frog artwork we have received this week! Fantastic challenge idea! We set our students the task of drawing or painting a frog, any kind of frog, for this weeks challenge. We love all of the…
A MUST-SEE EXHIBITION: The @derwentartprize 2022 is opening soon! Created in 2012 by Derwent, the #DerwentArtPrize rewards excellence in contemporary graphic art by showcasing the very best artworks created in pencil. Visitors will discover 72 works by 55 artists shortlisted…
Student Bronwyn Copeland has completed the Drawing and Painting course with. a Distinction. Her work is absolutely beautiful, in particular the watercolour Magnolia painting below. Tutor Paul Weaver was delighted with her artwork and will are thrilled to be able…
Jenny Nutbourne has been studying under tutor Maggy Roberts on the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma Course. Jenny annotates her drawings when she submits them so Maggy has a full understanding of what Jenny is doing at each stage. We felt…
Ethne Dian is the first student to complete the Chibi Character course. Tutor Monique said – “I am so proud of her. I think she’s brave & her texture & unique style is just wonderful!” Ethne said I just wanted…
More than 10 years ago, when online courses were not so popular as now, my international friend in Scotland told me about London Art College. I kept the name in the back of my mind, not thinking that one day…
Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge and yes you have guessed it… we would like to you draw or paint a frog… in traditional media or digital….you can even make one in clay or paper mache…! We are very…
Welcome to the results from our very popular challenge this week Shades of Grey. So many amazing paintings and drawings from our very creative students! Our feature image is shared this week by Bhawna Sinha and Lynne Bagnal, both pieces…
I am really happy and very proud to have got a distinction. I really enjoyed the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course and learned a lot. It was so helpful to make these illustrations and get feedback. Some subjects I would…
Jenny Nutborne’s flower project for the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course is absolutely beautiful! We love the delicate flowers in watercolour that Jenny has created. You can follow her process from the initial watercolour studies through through to the finished…
Student Lydia Weber has been working with tutor Monica Cilmi on our Pastel Art Course and has produced some exceptional artwork in her latest set. We adore the vibrancy of each piece, the movement Lydia has created along with plenty…
Welcome to our Colour Challenge. Every month we provide a new colour challenge whereby students can draw or paint anything they would like, as long as it is within those colours. This month we would like students to create artwork…
Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge ….. which was quite the challenge! We asked our students to draw something in either pen or pencil using a continuous line. It might sound easy, but actually its pretty tricky! It really…
Student Angela Willis completed all of these fantastic drawings on the Drawing With Pens Art Course. We love them, Angela has created some lovely lines and texture. Pens are often overlooked as a medium. If you would like to learn…
Pet Portrait student Patricia Clarke submitted her third assignment for the Pet Portrait Diploma Course and has created two superb submissions below. The first was created in pastel and the second Acrylic. We have added the reference photos Patricia used…
Student Rachel Shelly has been studying hands, feet and eyes, whilst working on our Drawing and Painting Course. She has created some wonderful studies which you can see below. We do try to encourage our students to work from life…
Our challenge this week has been chosen by student Rachel Pesterfield. We would like for you to draw a picture using one continuous line. Its not an easy challenge! A lot of thought needs to go into the subject, what…
Welcome to our first weekend art challenge results of 2022! And we are starting the year off with a Bang! Our challenge this week was for students to represent the words Noisy and Loud and we have recieved some fabulous…
Young artist Kasi Wyatt (aged 14) has been practicing her drawing skills and submitted these for one of her assignment below. She is taking our Drawing for Children Art Course 1. We absolutely love the study of the extension plug,…
Student Davina Raffaelli created these excellent drawings whilst working though our Drawing with Pens Art Course. As you can see from Davina’s artwork, using different papers and pens can give wide variety of textures, colours and results. We love how…
Student Yianna Charalambous completed these stunning paintings on the final set of the Landscape Painting course. We felt that they were more than worthy to be showcased on our blog, we particularly love the old car painting. So much texture…
Welcome to the first art challenge of 2022 which is all about being ‘Noisy and Loud’! The complete opposite from a few weeks ago when we did a peace and quiet challenge. What do you envisage when you think of…
Here are some wonderful paintings from student Jane Naylor who recently completed Still Life Course tutored by Alan Dedman. We have added some txt to go along side the paintings from Jane which students might be interested in reading. We…
Student Christine Emery has created three beautiful and exquisite drawings for her 5th assignment on the Botanical Coloured Pencil Course. We hope that you enjoy viewing Christine’s artwork in detail and we are sure her set 6 assignment artwork will…
Two wonderful and very colourful paintings today by student Inga Berkenstrater who completed our Colour Awareness Course recently. If you would like to find out what our Colour Awareness Course is all about, head on over to our website to…
Today we have some lovely studies from Kenneth Hustwitt who created these while working on the Drawing with pens art course. Take a look at our course page to read about how you can use pens as an art medium…
We have a stunning selection of students work to show you today. They are all from students who are studying our Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. Our students have designed some very creative and well thought out illustrations, along with…
Student Maria Pereira created these wonderful oil paintings whilst studying our Oil Painting Course with tutor Alan Dedman. Maria has created two abstract paintings and we particularly love the textures she has made in the painting below. The pastel colours…
Young artist Asher Wood has completed these two drawings for the Drawing For Children Course 2. They are absolutely wonderful. Asher set up two still life studies, the first was to draw his guitar from different angles as sketches and…
London Art College student Jean-Cristophe Catera has created some beautiful landscape paintings for his assignment on the Landscape Diploma Course. They are all absolutely stunning and we hope that our students are inspired by, not only the subjects and composition…
Student Serena Carter created these wonderful pieces of work while on the Coloured Pencil Course. Serena has explained about the drawings which you can read below, we are so pleased that she enjoyed her time with Monica Cilmi on the…
I want to thank Gayle Mason for introducing me to the dog painting world on the Pet Portraits Course. She has shown me methods I would never have known had I been training myself. Firstly I enjoyed designing my own…
We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our lovely students far and wide, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Wherever you will be spending the festive season, enjoy yourselves, relax and keep safe….
My weekend challenge, ‘Christmas’ Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving and of families united. Merry Christmas to all! We absolutely adore Bhawna’s painting of ‘Christmas’ and we hope that everyone has a wonderful Christmas…
We are in absolute awe of student Sally Studley’s artwork below. We love it, it’s so beautiful! We wish Sally and her family a very Merry Christmas and a safe New Year. Looking forward to seeing more artwork from Sally…
Merry Christmas! My latest Christmas drawing. I‘m enjoying seeing all the Christmassy pictures here and on Instagram. #weekendchallenge We are thrilled you are enjoying the christmas artwork Priscilla and the Christmas collage on Instagram. If our readers haven’t seen our…
A wonderful Robin by London Art College student Rosalind today. We wish Rosalind and her family a very happy an safe Christmas, from all of us here at the college.
We love this one from Audrey Quinton, wonderful watercolour and pen study. we hope everyone is nearly ready for Christmas!!
One year, as a young child, I collected 100 hazelnuts from the garden, and presented them to my Mum to help save some money at Christmas time. This is ‘Posting hazelnuts’.
…..what had never thought about before: Maybe Father Christmas is a rather cool guy? Who knows? No one has ever seen him…
LAST MONTH TO ENTER the Derwent Art Prize Artists from around the world have until 4 JANUARY 2022 to… ✨ Enter artworks created in any pencil, including colour, water soluble, pastel, graphite and charcoal pencils. You can enter up to…
We are far away from our home so I will send these cards to my mom and sister for Christmas this year.Watercolor on paper.
‘It’s almost Christmas again and I would like to wish HOPE to everyone! My snowman was painted in watercolour, pen ink and acrylics.” We love your snowman Josiene and would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas from all…
“I wanted to draw an image of the traditional way of communicating by post at Christmas. In this digital world I think it would be sad for Christmas cards and letters to Santa by post disappearing for good.” We agree…
Some wonderful christmas cartoons today by Cartooning course student Alfred Reid. We love them and hope you do too!
“ Winter Fox “ I painted this Christmas card from my childhood memories. Red Fox in the snow reminds me Christmas is on the horizon. I have used acrylics on acrylic paper.
December challenge finally finished. Acrylic paints with white Posca for the highlights. White Posca is great for fine lines like cat’s whiskers on a dark background and can be purchased on amazon.
We love this scene by student Latha Bhaduri Prabakar, isn’t it wonderful! It will be featured on our Instagram collage soon too. Have you seen our instagram page yet? its pretty epic! Come over and follow us…. https://www.instagram.com/londonartcollege/
Merry Christmas to everyone at London Art College. A few of my silly snowmen…. Lynne Bagnall We would like to wish Lynne a very Happy Christmas too, we love her snowman collection and hope that they make you all smile!
Weekend Challenge ‘What December Means to Me’… December means festive rush – definitely. This little elf is moving with the times, as you will see if you read his message board. But will the mouse move too? Merry Christmas!
Weekend Challenge: What December means to me – For me this time of year means remembering family and friends who celebrate Christmas or Chanukah. This is a double sided design. The design below is the Christmas tree, for this I’ve…
We love this painting by Patti-Ann and know that her cat is just about to pounce on that bauble and cause plenty of Christmas havoc! Well done Patti-Ann – superb painting! Have you created your Christmas painting for our blog…
Here is my rabbit Christmas painting. I used Saunders Waterford paper, watercolours. It is a very popular design at the Art and Craft Events, I go to, especially at Christmas.
A handmade Christmas Angel drawn in coloured pencil by student Rosalind Spilling. We love it – its so beautiful! Well done Rosalind on a really delicate piece.
For me, Christmas is not just about celebrating and spending time with the family, it is also about long walks in nature. Watercolour landscape painting.
I made Chanukah cards this year for friends and drew a Dreidel, a game enjoyed by children at this time of year. It is a watercolour painting.
‘The first tree in the Greenwood.. it was the holly’ How can you have Christmas without holly? Holly has been associated with Christmas since medieval times. It represents so much: Evergreen – being always present Berries – a source of food (although…