Student Elena Peres created some wonderful studies for one of her assignments on the Pastel Painting Course. We absolutely love the way that Elena has experimented using the same still life set up using different papers and different techniques. Both studies are excellent and we particularly like the the way Elena has noted the reflections in the surface on the table. We feel the top study reflections work the best – what do you think?

Have you experimented with pastels recently? Perhaps you are using pastel pencils and might like to give sticks or pans a try? You might be confused as to which paper you should be using – from sanded to velour there are lots of varieties. Hop on over to our website and enrol on our course today. We can help you with your pastel shopping spree and give you guidance throughout the course too. Pastel Painting Course….

I would like to share with you and hope with your LAC blog too these two works of my final sixth assignment Persea americana and Beta vulgaris.
Ana Lucía

   

Today’s Spooky Saturday artwork is by student Carlos Rodriguez Leyva. We love this one, such fluid lines! Congratulations Carlos!

 

 

The final day of our Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma exercise the ‘Row Row Row Your Boat’ week. Monique Bailey’s version was wonderfully received by tutor Maggy Roberts which you can see below.

The overall design, the different elements of the scene and the pastel colours all work really well. The viewers eye is drawn to the singing sunshine and the happy flowers, even down to the detail of the Happy Days sign. What a beautiful world Monique has created!

Karen Moore has created a very dreamy illustration for the ‘Row, Row Row Your Boat’ exercise. If you look at the detailed versions below you will be able to see the characters Karen has created more clearly. The whole concept is wonderful and very clever. We hope you like it as much as we do!

A beautiful illustration today by London Art College student Gabrielle Marlowe. This is a wonderful response to the exercise ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’ on the illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course.

We love the dog with his paws over the edge of the boat and his perky ears! The whole illustration is beautifully designed and very colourful. We can see that it would really capture the attention of little ones when reading.

We hope you enjoy viewing Gabrielle’s illustration along with the close up versions too. Stay tuned for the next illustration tomorrow.

Our second day of “Row, Row, Row Your Boat’ illustrations. If you didn’t see yesterdays, check back a day on our blog! Read all about where the exercises and concept is from too. Today’s illustration is by student Johnathon Cooper.

We are starting a week of “Row, Row, Row Your Boat’ illustrations! This exercise is one of the assignments in our Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course and we are always amazed at the diversity of each students take on the poem. We hope you enjoy this weeks collection of beautiful illustrations…the first is by Gabrielle Streat.

Todays spooky Saturday is by student Amanda Naus.

Yada Benputtipong has created three absolutely wonderful studies for one of his assignments on the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. We are absolutely thrilled to be able to show them here on our blog for students to see. Each hare study has been very carefully drawn and rendered with fine detail for the hares fur.

The backgrounds have been gently shaded and the edges of the hare have been softly blended into the backgrounds. We have some beautiful weight of line in the drawing along with light and shade helping to create the three dimensional form of the hares too. Overall absolutely superb and we hope that our readers and students agree too!