Welcome to this weekends art challenge all about wild flowers. Some of the photos below were taken on a woodland track in the wilds of west Wales, others are stock photos all free to use. You can draw or paint from these if you would like. Or perhaps you have access to lots of different Continue Reading

Welcome to the results of our latest weekend art challenge. We set our students this week, the task of creating artwork around the theme of Strawberries. Our students have had a wonderful time in creating and probably eating, plenty of strawberries this week! Our featured image above is by student Thakur Balbeer Singh who created Continue Reading

Student Emily Hemmings has submitted her first set of work on the Graphic Design Art Course and produced a terrific set of illustrations for a tourist brochure. Emily has also put together some very effective concept boards, which were a great starting point for this brief. Tutor Vanessa Weaver was absolutely delighted to receive them Continue Reading

Anne-Sophie Laugier submitted this very impressive illustration as her response to the Fiery Fred brief on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. Sophie also took a photo of the painting with her watercolour pallet which is absolutely beautiful! We would encourage students to taken more candid photos of their work, not only are they interesting Continue Reading

Rosy Davis created these two superb pieces of artwork for the first assignment on the Graphic Design Art course. At this stage, Rosie was learning about perspective and these are her two pen and ink illustrations as examples for this. They are absolutely spot on. Rosy’s pen and ink techniques are simply stunning and we Continue Reading

Welcome to our very summery weekend art challenge. This week, we would love for you to be creative with strawberries. It’s the height of the strawberry season and you may be lucky enough to have some growing in your garden, or sitting in your fridge ready to eat. If you do, why not draw or Continue Reading

Welcome to our big announcement! The London Art College yearly competition is now OPEN! Students can submit ONE piece of artwork they have created. It doesn’t have to be a course work piece. The artwork can be in any medium (excluding photography) Try to send your artwork in JPEG format and avoid sending thumbnail sized Continue Reading

Welcome to the results of ‘The Scream’ art challenge. This time we set our students the task of creating their own version – or own take on the Edvard Munch painting ‘The Scream’. We hope that you are all as impressed as we are here at the London Art College. This challenge was simply fantastic Continue Reading

Caroline Richards has completed the Graphic Design Course course and passed with an overall Distinction grade. Caroline has designed a beautiful poster which you can see below, along with her sketches and mockups of how the poster developed. Caroline sent this message to Vanessa and we are thrilled to read that Caroline enjoyed the course and Continue Reading

Ian Dance, a student from the Learn to Draw Course has created two lovely drawings in pen. Tutor Monika Cilmi was delighted with his work and we are thrilled to be able to show them on the blog today. The still life drawing has an accompanying image where Ian took a photo of his still Continue Reading

Student Sara Sykes has just completed the Illustration Diploma Course with a Distinction. Tutor Steven Hersey said that the distinction grade was well deserved and her work on the course was outstanding. We have added three images below, the first is the thumbnail sketches for the dummy book assignment. The second you can see would Continue Reading

Welcome to our weekend art challenge. A very different idea today sparked by student Mila Zinzen. ‘Mila’s idea is to ‘Make your interpretation of a well-known piece of art and for everyone to do the same piece’. After lots of consideration we felt that ‘The Scream’ by Edvard Munch would be an excellent choice allowing Continue Reading

Welcome to the results of this weekends art challenge. We set our students the task of creating a mandala or two! Students seem to have loved this idea and found the whole process very relaxing and meditative. So many beautiful and very colourful pieces of artwork have been produced by students this week. We are Continue Reading

Sean Cocker is currently working towards completing the Botanical Coloured Pencil Course with tutor Ida Mitrani. Seans illustrations below are absolutely stunning and we hope that you enjoy viewing them as much as we have. If you are interested in learning how to create coloured pencil drawings just like these, why not head over to Continue Reading

Audrey Quinton studied our Cartooning Diploma Course with tutor John Byrne. Audrey has just got in touch, as one of her stunning cartoons has been published in a booklet called ‘Fit For Farming‘. You can read about it online and see Audrey’s work in more detail too. Audrey wrote to tutor John Byrne to thank Continue Reading

I changed my path at college level from illustration to 3D Design., This gave me a wonderful career but I hope to finish what I started with Illustration. I also wish to learn more to be able to illustrate the booked that I have written and understand the industry. Chloe CooperIllustrating Children’s Book Diploma Course

Welcome to this weekends art challenge. Mandalas. What are Mandalas you ask? Wikipedia describes them as ‘a geometric configuration of symbols’. They can be a very precise circles with a matching configurations of patterns or conversely they can be a much more fluid, organic and free flowing works of art. They are mainly drawn in Continue Reading

Welcome to our latest art challenge where we asked our students to set about creating a ‘triptych’ as our weekend challenge. A Triptych is a set of three pieces of artwork with a theme running through them, or an image connecting the three. Our feature image today is by student Gill Brook which you can Continue Reading

Student Gayathri G is studying on our Illustration Diploma Course with tutor Steven Hersey. In one of the assignments on the course students are asked to design and redesign some logos. Gayathri created a number of stunning logo designs, including a redesign of the London Art College logo. We absolutely loved it and felt it Continue Reading

Welcome to our blog post today, dedicated to photography student David Feakes. He passed with flying colours this week with a distinction and tutor Rona Cox was delighted. The photos below show two from the portraiture window light tasks, one from the still life assignment and his final portfolio piece called ‘metal’. We hope that Continue Reading