Month: October 2012

Claire’s Story….

The following text and images are by Claire, a very talented student who has just completed both the  Illustrating Children’s Books (D6) and the follow on Extension course. We would like to thank Claire for taking the time to write a piece for our college news blog and we wish her…

Chinese Brush Painting Student Artwork….

We have our first pieces of artwork from our first student on our new correspondence course – Chinese Brush Painting! We would like to thank Janet for writing the piece below about her artwork and allowing us to display it both here and in our student gallery. We are looking forward…

Watercolour Diploma Student…..

A lovely testimonial from a Watercolour Diploma Student………… ————————————————————————- I am delighted to have received a distinction for my Watercolour Diploma. I enjoyed the course and the challenge of painting subjects which I have not attempted before and feel like I have…

Children’s Illustration Student and Author…..

Maggy Roberts, our Illustrating Children’s book tutor, asked if Jenny could write something for our college news blog. Jenny passed the Illustrating children’s books course with distinctions and she is in the process of writing children’s stories for publishers. Below are Jenny’s experiences from the course. —————————————————————- For…

Photography Students Photo…..

I asked Nicola if she would be able to chat about her wonderful photograph below for our college news blog. Nicola is currently studying the Photography Diploma Course (D10) with Rona Cox and is enjoying every minute. I hope you enjoy Nicola’s post below. ———————————————————- Hello everyone, My name is Nicola…

Watercolour portraits……

We have received some beautiful artwork this week to add to the website and blog and I have added one of them below. This is a piece of work from the portraiture course and this student has completed two studies of eyes…

Student passes with Distinctions….

We add students to our honours list on our website regularly with students who have passed their course with flying colours. This week was the turn of a drawing and painting diploma student called Ulrike and when I saw her work, I thought we just…

Portraiture Student Wins Best of Britain Competition

In this jubilee year, the art world has inspired lots of talented individuals to participate in art competitions with Britain at the heart of their theme. New student, Julie Ann Maguire, who joined the Portraiture Certificate course in January this year,…

Students Competition Win!

As a tutor for the college and also being an artist myself (Melanie Phillips pencil pet portraits)I quite often have art catalogues drop through my letter box and one of the regular suppliers that I order from is Ken Bromley Art Supplies….

Student Artwork….

This piece of lovely artwork was created by one of our current students studying the Illustrating Children’s books Diploma. Maggy has requested it to be on the website and I thought it would make a great blog post. Don’t forget…

Winners of the 2013 London Art College Competition revealed!

We are pleased to announce this years winner and runner up for our 2012 London Art College Art competition. All of the tutors and admin staff who attended this years annual conference had the difficult task of choosing a winner…

London Art College Annual Tutors Conference

The London Art College Admin staff and Tutors have just returned from the annual tutors conference. Unfortunately not all tutors and admin staff were able to attend, however we still had a good turn out, as you can see from the group photo below….

London Art College Competition – Entries & finalists online!

Our annual art competition for our students has come to a close for another year and we have now posted all of the entries and finalists online for you to peruse! We had a fantastic response this year  with a whopping 84 entries. There were so many…

Illustrating Children’s Books…Row, Row, Row…..

Having seen this illustration posted in our student forum, I thought it would be a fabulous one for the blog and student gallery. I have added the full illustration of the ‘Row, Row, Row your boat’ painting below, along with a close up of…