Welcome to the gallery of artwork for this weekends challenge, created by some very serene students! The pieces below are absolutely fantastic and we really hope that you all enjoy viewing them. So many different ideas for the theme this week – Serenity. A particular shout out to Walaa Al-jafari’s ballerina. Scroll down to view Continue Reading

Student Shubhangi Jain has completed the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course with tutor Alan Dedman. Alan requested for Shubhangi’s artwork to be added to the college blog and we were delighted to. We hope you find them inspiring.

Today we have some beautiful artwork form student Rebecca Hearson who has just submitted her first set of work for the Illustrating Children’s book Diploma Course. Maggy said… A lovely first submission from Rebecca, she has submitted some outstanding work. Maggy Roberts

Tutor Alan Dedman has Recently been invited to participate in the opening of an exhibition of African Art at Hidden Lane Gallery in Glasgow.  Alan showing some of his work alongside African artists, meeting some of them and joining an ‘Art jam’ in Milngavie. You can read a blog post about Alan and his travels to Continue Reading

Paul Weaver has an article out in the latest issue of ‘The Artist’ magazine (April 2020) ’The Magic of Snow & Frost in Watercolour’ and we have added a painting by Paul Weaver which you can see in the magazine below. You can download and read ‘The Artist’ magazine with Paul’s article and paintings online at Continue Reading

This weekends art challenge is quite an open subject. We thought as we generated lots of stormy artwork last week we would calm things down with the theme of Serenity this week. Interpret it how you would like and we have added some photos below to perhaps give you some ideas. We are very much Continue Reading

What a beautiful array of artwork we have received for this weeks art challenge. The artwork below really does convey the theme of ‘Storms’ well and I hope that everyone enjoys viewing all of the pieces. A very wide selection of styles and ideas. To all who took part – each of you should be Continue Reading

Stunning illustration for our readers to view today. Diana Eastlake who is currently working with tutor Maggy Roberts on the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma course created this double page spread for one of her assignments. The bottle on the left hand side is the perfect place for the text to be printed in the book. Continue Reading

The following painting was completed by Oksana Lupych who has just completed our Oil Painting course. The image below is part of her final assignment and is the from the abstract section of course exercises. Oksana said… For the abstract work I use big size of mdf with acrylic ground to avoid any deformation and Continue Reading

A lovely collation of artwork today by Illustration student Eva Chen. Tutor Steven Hersey was thrilled with all of the pieces. He said to Eva.. “This first assignment is outstanding. I would like to congratulate you on your work. It is thrilling to see. I wish you well in future assignments.” Steven Hersey We hope Continue Reading

Here in the UK and in parts of Europe there have been lots of storms recently, this weekend we are being battered by Storm Dennis. We thought it would be a very apt challenge to create a piece of artwork under the title Storms. You can draw or paint anything that you feel encompasses the Continue Reading

Welcome to this weeks art challenge artwork! It is all about the eyes! We set students the task to either draw their own eyes in a mirror or draw or paint the eyes of friends and family members. If students were unable to work from life then of course working from photos was definitely allowed! Continue Reading

Qian Tang Michel is currently studying our Portrait Painting Course with tutor Alan Dedman. The paintings and drawings Qian has created below are absolutely stunning and we hope that they inspire our students and readers. Qian Said… I already performed B1 Beginner class and D5 Pet Portraits diploma with London Art College. I also learnt Continue Reading

The Cartooning Diploma Course: This is a long blog post (just warning you now!) but the course was 18 months of sheer enjoyment so it warrants quite a few words (and illustrations!) in praise of it. Just in case you can’t be bothered to read to the end, can I just summarize by saying: the Continue Reading

After four years as tutor on the Watercolour Diploma course, Jem Bowden has critiqued his last assignment for students at London Art College. A planned move to Scotland sees Jem go in new directions in life and work, although he continues to teach watercolour painting in various forms. If you would like to keep up Continue Reading

Welcome to this weekends art challenge. We thought we would ease you in gently with painting portraits by starting with drawing eyes. You can either look in the mirror and draw your own, or if you have a friend or family member who will sit for you – perfect! You can create this in any Continue Reading

Welcome to our weekend art challenge artwork for the theme Cats and Kittens. We have received an overwhelming amount of entries this week and we are delighted to see the vast array of styles, ideas and beautiful artwork our students have produced. Scroll gradually to the bottom of this page and we can guarantee you Continue Reading

Louise Dexter created this selection of beautiful paintings whilst working on the drawing and painting course, along with travelling too. Louise said…. Watercolour 1 was painted while on holiday in the Algarve, surrounded by Bougainvillea so it made sense to paint this subject. I really enjoyed doing this in a loser use of the medium. Continue Reading

Two wonderful paintings today by London Art College student Aneta Juszczak who is studying on our Portraits course. Both paintings are absolutely stunning and we hope that our students are inspired by them!

Jamie Simmons has created a beautiful double page spread as part of the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. Read Jamie’s experiences of the process below… “I did individual studies of each bird I wanted to use, before I sketched them in on the page. I then started colouring in the birds, and then did the Continue Reading