London Art College

I loved painting at junior school, and the teacher loved my paintings. She said that I ‘had an eye’. I didn’t really know what she meant, as I thought I had two, but was glad

I was asked to be Bradford Teaching Hospitals Artist in Residence which I accepted. This offer was sent to me after my 4th art donation to them and was offered as a way of expressing

Student Jane Tivey completed these two superb pieces whilst working on the Coloured Pencil Course with Monika Cilmi. We have added some of the text that Jane wrote to Monika to go along side the

Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge where we are celebrating the colour Pink! We would like you to paint or draw anything…. but only in pink! Sound easy? You can use any shade of

Welcome to the results of this weekend’s art challenge. We absolutely loved the theme of this art challenge, and we hope our students enjoyed it too. Ducks are the most wonderful subjects for drawing and

We have a lovely collection of paintings today from a variety of students. Each student completed these paintings for their Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. There are multiple sets of work to complete during the

We thought we would start the week off with a stunning collection of artwork from our Drawing and Painting Diploma Students. Our feature image is of a landscape with trees by student Nancy Hunter, which

The theme this weekend is ducks and duckings or ducks in a landscape. Cute as you want it to be! Draw or paint as many or as few ducks as you would like, with a

We have been indulging in some cakes and sweet treats for afternoon tea in this weeks art challenge. Our featured image is by student Nina Phillips and we love the texture she has created on

I use to paint and draw a lot when I was a child and a young man, but then my professional life took me apart from art. Luckily, the pandemic came and, before the impossibility

I started the Drawing with Pens Course a couple of weeks ago and I have very much enjoyed experimenting with new techniques, different subject matters and a variety of pens and papers.Audrey Quinton

Student Laetitia Senecot has been creating some amazing artwork for her Pet Portrait Diploma course. She has not only created paintings of dogs, but as you can see from the featured image, Laetitia has also

One of the best places in the UK to take afternoon tea is Fortum and Masons. Sadly we aren’t all able to visit there this weekend … although if you do let us know! Instead,

As artists we should all make our friends and family a handmade card from time to time. It’s not only unique and personal to the recipient, but they can frame it and keep it as

If you are thinking about enrolling on our Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma, you might like to take a look at these amazing illustrations by a variety of students who are studying on that very course.

We have many budding artists enrol on our courses who have never drawn before. Some take the plunge and take our learn to draw Beginners Drawing Course. Student Paula Monaghan did just that! Here are

Have you ever wanted to learn how to paint or draw your pets? Perhaps you might like to take up a hobby of drawing portraits of your friends animals. Or learn to draw them to

This weekends art challenge is all about thinking of another person, a good friend of yours and making them a card. Just because! Think about what they like, along with their passions and what you

A lovely collection of Dream houses for our most recent weekend art challenge. We love them all and quite agree with Julie Smalley and her wonderful drawing of the house on the hill with staff

We have some beautiful artwork today by Coloured Pencil Course student Gill Barratt. We chose Gill’s drawing of a glass jar with chestnuts as the featured image as it is simply stunning. Scroll down to