Calling All London Art College Students!

Student of the Year is closing August 31st 2010. Please Send us your piece for the competition! You can read more about it on our Student of the Year 2010 webpage and you can submit your work to techsupport@londonartcollege.co.uk

The London Art College website now has a section within the Student Area for students to write and illustrate their own tutorials to help other students. Our first contributor is a Graphic Design student, Hana Tesar, who has shown how she created her CV piece, which is extremely interesting. Why not check it out – Students own Tutorials

If you are interested in having your own tutorial published in our Student Area, please email techsupport@londonartcollege.co.uk with all the details and we will add it to our website.

As you may have noticed the college website has undergone some changes and updates this week. We hope that you enjoy looking around our site, finding the new things we have added and tweaked! We feel it is much easier to navigate and hopefully a joy to view all of the student artwork and available courses.

The students now have their own section called Student Area which houses the interactive areas of the site from the college news blog, the student forum, buttons to login to upload your artwork to your tutor, student success stories and testimonials, the student honours list and the student of the year section. This is now allowing the interactive area to grow so we can add lots of new features over the coming months.

One of our newest sections is business and commissioning advice written by our very experienced commercial artist Julie Douglas. It is well worth a read and definitely one to bookmark, especially if you are thinking about starting your own business in the art and craft field.

The help section for students to upload their artwork has been updated and soon the student area will have a new design too, we will blog this when its complete so watch out for that……

We hope you enjoy our new and improved website!

This is a wonderful piece from an 8 year old young artist who is currently on the young Artists Course 1. I was delighted when I saw this, the experimentation of colour, texture  and line is fantastic. I’m looking forward to seeing more from this student.

Picturing Science
4th December – February 2011
Deadline for submissions 23rd October 2010
Through its annual open exhibition opportunities, Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham helps artists both locally and nationally to showcase their work in group exhibitions. Each year, over 500 individual artists (excluding those participating in Arthouse) exhibit work in a range of open exhibitions across three galleries – Orleans and Stables Galleries, Twickenham and the Riverside Gallery in Richmond.

In 2010, we have further opportunities for you to submit artwork for an exhibition at Riverside Gallery, Picturing Science. Scientists use an abstract language of signs to visualize and explain the invisible forces, relationships and processes which make up our world. Artists similarly create images to transmit and analyse meaning. The theme of this exhibition is the collision, intersection and contamination of these two systems of representation. Any media (prints, photos, paintings, objects, sculptures, film) and style are considered.

•    Artists can submit up to 5 original works. Artworks must be submitted as high resolution jpeg files on a CD, with accompanying A4 sized photographic prints or colour printouts. Original artwork will not be accepted.
•    Please clearly label each submission with: artist’s name, title of work, date, media, approximate size and price before commission if the work is for sale (the gallery adds 40% of the artist price for commission + VAT).
•    In addition, please enclose contact details, an artist’s statement and CV.
•    There is a £10.00 administration charge (which also contributes towards exhibition costs); £7.50 concessions (please include proof). Please make cheques payable to ‘L.B.R.U.T’. Your submission will not be accepted without payment.
•    If you would like images returned, please enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope.

Successful artists will be contacted by email or in writing approximately two weeks after the deadline.

Any queries, please email curator Mark De Novellis at m.denovellis@richmond.gov.uk
Or call 020 8831 6000.

Orleans House Gallery, Riverside, Twickenham, TW1 3DJ

We are pleased to announce that Sandrine Maugy has joined out team of course tutors and is taking immediate responsibility for new students joining our Botanical Illustration 2 course. Existing students on that programme will continue in the care of Jo Konopelko.

Sandrine is French and speaks fluent English having lived and worked in the UK since 1994. She is a Member of the Society of Botanical Artists and a Member of the Society of Floral Painters. Her work, which is of a consistently high standard, has won many awards including a Silver Medal from the Royal Horticultural Society.

Her career as a Botanical Artist started after she successfully completed a Botanical Illustration course with the London Art College in 2001 gaining a Distinction. She holds now teaching qualifications and regularly holds classes as well as acting as Tutor on the Society of Botanical Artist’s distance learning Diploma course.

Sandrine explains that her work is inspired by Nature, colour and light and she is regular contributor to the Artists & Illustrators magazine including their “Ask the Experts” feature. More examples of her work can be seen in the magazine and on her web site www.sandrinemaugy.co.uk

We are very happy that Sandrine, having started her very successful career with one of our courses, is now coming back to help new students benefit from her experience and expertise.

John Byrne, tutor of the Cartooning course will be doing a question and answer session with a celebrity cartoonist: Kal whose work appears in The Economist and many other top magazines. You can check out Kal’s excellent work at his website www.kaltoons.com

In advance of the interview, we  invite you to send in any questions you would like to ask Kal about his work or about cartooning in general, and we will do our best to cover as many points as possible, and we will post Kal’s answers on the college  forum.

As you’ll see from Kal’s website, he is deservedly one of the most successful and busiest cartoonists working in the field today, so he is being really generous in giving some time to us here at the college. With that in mind can we ask you to send the questions to techsupport@londonartcollege.co.uk  or by posting them on the forum. Please do NOT to send them direct to his website, as it is his business address.

If this interview goes well, and you find it useful, we’ll try to make it a regular feature of the forum and maybe your favourite cartoonist will be one of our next guests.
So do send your questions and comments for Kal by Friday 5th and will aim to have the interview done and posted up by mid March.

Price Rise 1st February

The London Art College course prices are due to rise on Feb 1st 2010 so if you are thinking about ordering a course try to do so before Feb 1st to take advantage of our current prices. You can find our full price list here and why not take a look around at our courses pages to see if anything interests you….

We would like to wish all of our students a very Happy New Year and all the best for their studies in 2010!

The London Art College

This drawing has been created by a Pet Portrait Diploma student who has completed a still life exercise for the course. We felt this piece of work was very blogworthy and we hope it inspires students from all courses. It feels very three dimensional and realistic, particularly the area of the drill with the wire coming over the top of it. We have added a detail close up so that you can see it a little clearer.

If any of our students have a piece of artwork they feel is blogworthy, please do get in touch!