Three superb paintings today by London Art College student Oxana Hayball who created these whilst studying still life with tutor Alan Dedman. We love the way Oxana is experimenting viewing the objects at different angles. Which do you like best? if you would like to learn how to create good still life set ups and […]

Mari-Ann Berg has created three tonal sketches, a coloured pencil flower study and a garden scene for one of her sets of assignments on the Drawing & Painting Diploma Course. Read about how Mari-Ann created the artwork below. Duck looking for food (Brovillion’s Cretacolor – charcoal of different types). My sewing-machine (Artico Charcoal pencils). This […]

Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge. This one is going to be a pretty tricky challenge. It’s all about perspective in street scenes. There are lots of ideas below for you to work with, you can choose a street scene, a bridge, walkway, canal or river. As long as there are buildings, walls or […]

Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge. We set students the task of painting or drawing something in black and white. It could be any subject, any medium, any size just as long as it was in black and white. We have received an astonishing amount of entries this week and most of them are […]

Abigail OGorman created these beautiful drawings for the Drawing for Children’s Course. Abigail drew her toy dog in pencil and shaded it as a practice and then drew it again and coloured it in. She then collated a few toys together as her final drawing for her course. Abigail has proceed some marvellous drawings here […]

Monica Phillips created these fantastic pieces whilst working on the Still Life Course with tutor Alan Dedman. We love all of the paintings Monica has painted and particularly admire the way she has handled the glasses and the shine on the bottles. Still enabling us to understand that they are see through and being able […]

Drawing and Painting Diploma student Veronique Cole has completed her course with tutor Paul Weaver and has passed with a Distinction. We have added a few of Veronique’s paintings and drawings below and hope that you find them inspiring! If you would like to learn to create similar artwork to Veronique below, why not head […]

Welcome to this weekends art challenge. This time we would like you to create anything of your choice in Black and White. It could be in graphite pencil, black and white pastel or chalk, black and white paint with all of the different mixtures of greys in between. You could create a collage using black […]

Welcome to our weekend art challenge on the theme of art materials. We thought it would be the perfect September art challenge. With everyone getting back into the swing of things after summer holidays, for the new term. Our featured image is shared this week by Elena Statham and Iryna Labunska, we loved them both […]

Hillary Love has completed a fabulous portrait for her final set of work on the Pet Portrait Diploma course. The portrait that Hillary has created, although fairly loose in style, is very accurate with regards to fundamentals of her drawing, along with the light and shade and solidity of the subjects and background. The overall […]

Jane Tivey chats about how she complete dher landscape hay bales pastel painting. We hope you all find it interesting and inspiring! To start with I roughed out the tree line and top field line and then painted the sky using some a couple of blues, greys and a little white. I selected the pastels […]

Welcome to this weekends art challenge. September always has a ‘going back to school’ feel where you are buying new pencils, sketch pads, pencil sharpeners plus lots of new art materials for the new term. All with that fresh new art materials smell. We thought it would be fun for you to draw or paint […]

Welcome to the latest results of our weekend challenge for our students. This week we asked them to draw or paint an owl, in any style or form. If you scroll below, you will see some absolutely wonderful renditions of owls in all different media including, watercolour, acrylic, pastel, pencil and digital form. We even […]

Student Fleur brown has created a lovely composition for two black Labradors for one of her assignments on the Pet Portraits Diploma Course. We have added a couple of photos below, one showing the painting in progress with a prelim study next to it. We love the background Fleur has used in her painting, it […]

Tessa Burn recently completed the pastels course and created a variety of artwork whilst studying with tutor Monica Cilmi. The pastels course not only allows you to learn pastels as a medium, but it gives you the chance to experiment with different subjects for you to choose what you love to create most. If you […]

Student Pauline Garforth has completed the Watercolour Diploma Course and created this beautiful painting of St Pauls Cathedral. We have added the final painting, the reference photo Pauline used and a photo of Paulines colour chart too. Pauline was delighted with her course and you can read a snippet from Pauline’s email to tutor Ida […]

Welcome to our weekend art challenge. This week we would love for you to portray owls – or a single owl, the choice is yours. Owls are predominantly solitary and nocturnal and this could come across in your work if you wanted to add deeper meaning to your compositions. You might like to add your […]

Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge which we set our students this week. It was not the easiest of challenges, in fact, drawing or painting a horse in motion for an experienced artists is a huge challenge. So our students have done incredibly well and we think you will be very impressed with the […]

Helen Acosta completed both of these beautiful paintings for the Pet Portrait Diploma Course. The first being a Red Setter in Pastel, the second a Corgi in acrylics. Helen explains a little about each painting below. We hope you enjoy reading about Helen’s experiences. The head study is in coloured pencil on PastelMat paper. I […]