My name is Denise Norman and I have recently completed the Coloured Pencil drawing course.  I have no art education or formal training, just a keen interest and a desire to produce something that I could be proud of.

It has probably taken me longer than most to complete the course, but I have loved every minute and learned so much.  I have improved enormously along the way thanks not only to the detailed course materials, but more importantly to Monika’s help and constructive feedback and support, not to mention her patience.  I have subsequently developed a new skill and passion which I am looking forward to continue working on and improving further.

I can highly recommend art as a destressor; it has certainly helped we unwind and relax.  These pictures were my final submissions and were produced using Derwent Artists pencils and Faber Castell Polychromo pencils on Bristol Board paper.  I am hoping to register for the Botanical Coloured Pencil art course next.

Denise Norman
Coloured Pencil Course

 

Sandhya Sharma has created a lovely selection of practice drawings in graphite pencil and sepia pastel for her practice assignments on the Life Drawing and Painting course. Some of the drawings Sandhya has been able to draw from life, some she has used photographs to work from. Either way, they are great practice to help improve observation skills of the human form. Sandhya has also been practicing foreshortening in poses which you can see by the study of the boy sleeping and the gymnast.

Marianela Soto is studying the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma Course with tutor Maggy Roberts. Marianela contact me here at tech support with her artwork to ask about resizing the images for submitting in the ‘The Art Room’. Upon helping her I felt that her work would be absolutely superb to showcase here on the blog and so we hope you enjoy viewing them.

Hi from Santiago, Chile! I am taking Maggie Roberts’ course on Illustrating Children’s Books. The assignment was to create a large double-page spread illustration. Also a collage cut out. I hope you like them.
Marianela

We thought it would be great to collect a selection of the beautiful watercolour landscape paintings students have been creating on the Landscape Painting Diploma Course. We have so many beautiful paintings in all different mediums on file, that we will have to have a ‘Landscape Week’ soon! However today’s post is dedicated to Watercolour. The paintings are by our London Art College students as follows : Zainab Aziz, Miren Amaya Del Castillo, Moira Millar, Ann Rae and Jackie Davies.

Christine Amstutz completed our Drawing and Painting Diploma and here are a few of her pieces of artwork from the assignments on the course. We particularly love the painting of the pear. The colours Christine used along with the patterns and shapes in the background are superb.

The pear has been painted exquisitely with light on the left hand side and cooler shadows on the right. It is absolutely superb. The texture of the canvas really helps to pull everything together – it si simply wonderful. We hope you also enjoy viewing Christine’s artwork and find it as inspiring as as we do.

 

We have five very different pieces of artwork today from students who are studying on the Coloured Pencil Course. The course is very well rounded and it enables students to draw any subject that they would like whilst teaching coloured pencil as a medium as well as observational drawing too. So if you had a penchant for drawing buildings, then we are more than happy for you to include lots of street scenes, sky scrapers, city scapes and studies of architecture in your assignments. The first two drawings below are in fact good examples of this! We hope you find all of the pieces inspiring.

Artwork by students as follows : Helen Parkes, Amelia Whiffin, Jane Griffiths, Keith Galliford and Norma Hall.

 

 

Three wonderful pieces of artwork today, from three different students all taking the Watercolour Diploma Course. The students have created a painting on the theme of boats and each are are very different from the other. We love the confident and beautiful sky in Harjinder Gurnham’s boat painting, it truly is a superb piece. Anne Watson has really interestingly used paint to make splashes to describe the pebbles in the foreground on hers which works really well. Finally Yvonne Ryves has combined her boat with a landscape and trees using a very contemporary composition.

We hope that the paintings are inspirational to you all and if you are interested in learning how to paint in Watercolour, just let us know. We would love to help teach you! www.londonartcollege.co.uk

 

Harjinder Gurnham

 

Anne Watson

 

Yvonne Ryves

This weeks Spooky Saturday Illustration is by student Priscilla Hocking.

 

Tanisha Sharma has created a very bold collage for one of the assignments on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. All students who enrol on the course experiments with collage during their time with us. We have found a very helpful YouTube video which students might find useful when creating this exercise.

A lovely artist called Cathy Taylor gives a 14 minute demonstration in how she creates her collages and also how she creates texture using different materials with her watercolours. It is a must see for our illustration students – don’t forget to bookmark it. We will add it to our Illustrating Children’s Books Facebook group also.

 

Some amazing and very imaginative artwork today by London Art College student Peter Shorney. Peter is studying our Science Fiction and Fantasy course, tutored by our lovely cartoonist John Byrne. Peters artwork is full of colour and movement which is important for this kind of illustration, lots of look at and see, along with strong bold colours to go along side telling a narrative to the viewer.

If you would like to try your hand at Science Fiction and Fantasy illustration, head on over to our website and read more about the course to see if it would work for you.