Year: 2013
We would like to wish our students a very Merry Christmas and a very creative 2014! Also a very special thank you to Judy Elizabeth Wilson for letting us use her superb Christmas illustration for our festive blog post this…
Jonathan Cooper has just passed the Illustrating children’s books diploma with distinctions can now be seen on our honours list >> I have added one of Jonathan’s final pieces below along with a close up detail of the illustration. We have…
Judy Elizabeth Wilson, received her certificate this week for successfully passing the Illustrating Children’s books diploma course with distinctions. Judy recently illustrated ‘The Magic Walnut’ which you can read more about below and view a few illustrations form the book…
Here is a beautiful illustration from one of our students studying with Maggy Roberts on the illustrating children’s books diploma. This is for the Row, Row, Row your boat exercise. Superb coloured pencil techniques, wonderful colours used and overall a…
Our Chinese Brush Painting Course tutor, Monika Cilmi, is going to be having a stand at this years Lavenham Christmas Craft Market in Suffolk UK. If any of our readers, or Monikas students are in the area, they are more…
Anneke, a student currently studying on the Pet Portrait Diploma course, has created a wonderful portrait for her vet of her vets dog babis. Here is Annekes story behind the portrait…. ———————————————————– This is Babis, a Kokoni (this is a…
This is a wonderful illustration from one of our students who has passed the Illustrating children’s books course with Distinctions. This illustration was also a finalist for this years London Art College Art competition. We are sure this student will…
We have two wonderful talented students who have just received distinctions for completing the Illustrating Children’s book course and the follow on course. We hope that the artwork below is inspiring to all of our budding illustrators out there! Congratulations…
We have recently updated all of our galleries on our website so pop over and take a look at the new student artwork coming through. London Art College Student Art Gallery >> Here is a brand new image from a…
Here we have some more wonderful artwork from another student on the graphic design diploma course. Helena shows some super calligraphy. The graphics course focuses on all manner of essential typographic terminology and layout options, but also includes the opportunity to…
I have some lovely examples of experimentation from a student on the graphics course to share with you. The Illustration study unit encourages students to analyse a broad range of styles and then go on to create their own interpretations….
Hi my name is Celia Carlile and I’ve just been invited to write something here about my new book ‘The Christmas Song‘. In 2010 after some unsuccessful attempts at writing and illustrating children’s picture books I went online to find…
We have received an email from the Inapub, regarding a competition being held. If any of our students are interested, please contact the Inapub direct. As always the college is not affiliated with this offer, student participate at their own risk. We wish…
We have received an email from the UKCPS, regarding a new exhibition being held. If any of our students are interested, please contact the UKCPS direct. As always the college is not affiliated with this offer, student participate at their own risk….
We have received an email from Leigh Horbury, regarding illustrating his new book. Leigh has written below, if any of our students are interested, please contact him direct. As always the college is not affiliated with this offer, student participate at their own…
My name is Margaret Orchard. I am writing this having just learnt that I have won the LAC Competition for 2013. I am absolutely thrilled to have won and would like to congratulate Alexandra for her delightful depiction of her cat…
Rachel Morrison has just started the Graphic Design Art Diploma course after already completing the Children’s Book Illustration course and currently studying its follow on course too! Vanessa Weaver, the Graphic Design tutor, emailed us a piece of Rachel’s artwork to…
An amazing story from one of our Illustrating Children’s books students Jacqui…….. ———————————————- A few years ago I was lucky to be given the London Art College Illustrating Children’s Books course by a good friend. I love working through the…
I was really over the moon to receive runner up in the LAC Competition 2013 for “Boris my Bengal” My name is Alexandra, and I live in Maidstone, Kent. I have been married to Alan, a forestry consultant, for 33…
We would like to announce this years winners for the London Art College Competition 2013… Winner – Margaret Orchard – Purple Moment. Runner up – Alexandra Riley – Boris my Bengal. We would like to officially congratulate both students on…
Each year all of the college staff and tutors get together for a yearly meeting in Bristol UK. This year was a good turnout, with only four tutors missing, we had a superb meeting which was very enjoyable and productive….
The David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year 2014 is now open for entries. Please click the image below to visit their website. Contact Nina, details below, if you have any queries. Please note that the London Art College is not…
We have two pieces of typographic work to blog today from a student who is currently studying on the Graphic Design in Art Diploma course with Vanessa Weaver. Ella Chambers has put a lot of thought and time into the…
LAST DAY – enter today – your last chance!!! The London Art College 2013 competition is now open! The competition is open to all current London art college students and those who have completed since September 2012. Students may enter…
Vanessa Weaver, tutor for the Graphic Design Art Diploma course, emailed her student Carlenes artwork along with accompanying text which Carlene submitted with her work. Vanessa felt that other students would be really interested to read it on the college…
We are pleased to announce the new Pet Portraits Diploma course tutor Gayle Mason! We would all like to give a big hearty welcome to the London Art College! Gayle is a professional artists who not only accepts commissions but…
Tutor Vanessa Weaver has sent us two pieces of wonderful artwork for our blog. The artwork has been completed by Ruth who is currently studying with Vanessa on the Graphic Design Art Diploma. Vanessa has commented on her pieces which you…
We have a lovely student currently studying our Colour Awareness course who has created the montage below. I felt it was so colourful and the composition was very well designed, that it was worthy of being showcased on the college…
Gabrielle emailed me to ask if we could add her artwork to our gallery. We are always delighted to hear from our students and happy to add artwork to our student gallery at any time. Having viewed Gabrielle’s images, I emailed…
This is a wonderful piece of artwork that was created by Annemarie, a student who has just gained a distinction on our Illustrating children’s Book Diploma course with Maggy Roberts. What a happy spider to have found his forever home!…
Here are some wonderful photos a student took whilst working on the exercise ‘Row, Row, Row your Boat’ for the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma course with Maggy Roberts. The student has produced a wonderful illustration and I have added a…
One of our Photography Diploma students has been studying the shape and form of cabbages and has taken two very interesting photos for his assignments. The droplets of water are superb, the colours are vibrant and we wish this photography…
One of my students who is currently studying the Pet Portraits Diploma Course has created the most beautiful pastel portrait of their cat. The portrait captures the soul of this little feline, the eyes have been beautifully executed and the…
This is an opportunity for students to exhibit work under the title of still life, nature and objects shapes. Please note we are not affiliated with the Orleans house in any way. —————————————————————————– Open Exhibition – Still Life: Nature and…
Vanessa, the tutor for the Graphic Design Art Diploma has sent a wonderful piece of artwork to showcase on the blog. Vanessa has said that the solid dark area in the foreground really helps the viewer to establish the main…
We recently posted about the ‘Something to Shout About’ conference and one of our students, Jane Sunbeam, who is currently on our Illustrating children’s books diploma course, attended the conference and summer school. Jane has very kindly written about her…
We have just received information about this years Illustration west competition. Please note the London art college are not affiliates with this competition. We wish our students all the best if they enter. ————————————————— ILLUSTRATION WEST 52 Call for Entries…
Maintenance – Tuesday 13th August On Tuesday, 13th August we intend to move this site to a new server starting at 09:30 BST (08:30 GMT). We anticipate this will take around an hour. During the migration, the site will be…
Larisa, a student who completed the Botanical Diploma Course in June has just emailed me some of her artwork for our website and blog. I have added Larisa into the honours list and posted her artwork below. We would like…
Eva Cano has just passed the Graphic Design Art Diploma course with flying colours and one of her pieces is shown below. We hope that Eva has a very long and successful career in graphic design.
Just received this memo, perhaps some of our students who are studying on the Illustrating Children’s books course might be interested! Let us know if you attend. ————————————– Some of your students may be interested in this, Anglia Ruskin Uni…
We would like to congratulate Mani for successfully passing the Portrait painting course with Distinctions. One of Manis pieces is below and I ahve added a few others in the student gallery. We wish Mani the best of luck in…
Sarah Lister is currently studying with Maggy on the Illustrating Children’s book Diploma course and she has emailed us her entry for the ‘Illustrate it’ competition. The judges are definitely going to have a hard time choosing the winner and…
Lucy, studying on the Illustrating Children’s book course, has also entered the Illustrate It competition and you can see her entry below along with a detail of her beautiful illustration. We wish Lucy all the best with the competition! ——————————————————————————-…
I asked Jon, a student who is currently studying with Maggy Roberts on the Illustrating children’s books, if he would write about his sink city painting for the blog. I was very interested to hear how he created the piece…
Kasia Gudacz emailed to ask if we would add her entry to the illustrate-it competition. We were more than happy to! Kasia has written about her entry below and we wish her the best of luck in the competition. If any…
We have received an email from the The Construction Industry Council letting us know about a competition they are holding for photographers. if you enter and are successful let us know! As usual the college is not affiliated with this…
This piece of artwork has been waiting in my inbox for a while to blog and so at last here it is! The student gained a distinction for passing her Graphic Design Art Diploma with Vanessa Weaver. We love the…
This is a piece of artwork from a student on the Pet portrait Diploma Course and I felt it was absolutely blog worthy! I have another piece id like to blog created by this student, however I will save it…
Daniel is currently studying the Illustrating Children’s Books diploma with Maggy Roberts and had posted his latest piece on the student forum. I thought that it would make a wonderful blog post. Daniel was happy to write about his work…
Information about this years competition at lessedra.com Please note we are not affiliated with Lessedra, please enter at your own discretion. ————————————————————– It is my pleasure to announce our 4th International Competition in A VERY SMALL SIZE Painting, Drawing, Collage, Watercolor, Photographs, Digital, Mixed Media…With…
Lisa Watkins is currently studying our Pet Portrait Diploma Course and one of the exercises in the course took her on an amazing journey travelling all the way to to Romania…..It has been published in the magazine coloredpencilstudent.com and we are very…
Danette Byatt is currently studying our Illustrating Children’s books Follow on Course, however has taken some time out to enter into the Illustrate It Competition. Danette has written a little about how she came up with the ideas for her entry…
We have received a lovely email from an up and coming band called Alfee. They are looking for a new logo and wondered if any of our students would like to give the design a go. There are sound clips…
We have received some information about the exhibition at Patchings and the UKCPS workshops that are being held in September. If any of our students attend, take some photos and let us know how you got on! We hope you…
We are pleased to announce that we are rolling out a brand new course for studnets to enroll on from today! – Digital Illustration Diploma Course tutored by Spencer Hill. The course will show students how to make the move…
Rachel Carpenter has just completed the Graphic Design Art Diploma and has passed with flying colours gaining a distinction. One of her final pieces is shown below. We have also included Rachel’s text which accompanied her work submitted to tutor…
We would like to officially welcome Gaynor Dickeson to our team of London Art College tutors. Gaynor will be teaching all new students who enrol for the Botanical Diploma Course from today. Gaynor is an extremely experienced artist and teacher…
Monday’s interactive google doodle shows characters from Where the Wild Things Are, which is a 1963 children’s picture book by American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, who would have turned 85 on Monday 10th of June. The book tells the…
Lisa, a current student just starting out on the Drawing and Painting Diploma course has completed one of her first exercises. She has asked if we can blog the artwork just in case other students have any advice for her….
‘Summer Offer’ – 10% off all diploma courses paid in full! If you have been considering learning a new skill, or you are nearing completion of a course, wondering what to do next…now is your chance to purchase any of…
Debi has allowed us to post an in progress photo of her artwork here on the blog. Debi posted this on the forum and I just loved her painting with all the paints and brushes. If you have any ‘in…
Vanessa has emailed me a lovely piece of student artwork today which I thought would make a perfect blog post. Vanessa has written about it below. Congratulations to this student for a fantastic poster! ————————————————————— This work is of a…
We have featured artwork from Christine Towndrow within the last month, she has already completed our Cartooning Diploma and our Graphic Design Diploma with flying colours. She is now studying our Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma with Maggy Roberts. Christine has just created a website for…
We have updated our Chinese brush painting Gallery on our website and have created a new Chinese brush painting gallery on our Facebook page. Pop over there to take a look! London Art College Facebook Albums >>
Botanical Painting Diploma Tutor Required UK applicants only – Closing date for application 24th May We have an opening for a tutor to take over the running of our long established and very popular Botanical Painting Diploma distance learning art course. The post…
We have updated the Pet Portraits Diploma Course Student Gallery recently with lots of lovely new student artwork. The image below is just one of the new pieces we have added. Why not pop along to view the gallery, along with some…
We have received an email from Joe Williams telling us about a new game show that he’s helping to create for the UK tv station Channel 4. Have a read below and if you are interested contact him direct. As always the…
One of my students has just completed the ‘close up exercise’ on the Pet Portraits Diploma course and I feel Carolyn has done a superb job with this pastel portrait and fulfilled the exercise beautifully. Well done Carolyn!
One of our illustrating Children’s books students, Lucy, tackled the walking the dog exercise so well, I asked if she could explain how she came up with her designs for our blog. As you can see below, her preparation drawings and final piece is excellent. I…
Vicki, who has just completed the Illustrating Children’s books course, has received her final grade and passed with Distinctions. I asked Vicki if she would write a little about her final piece which I have added below. We would like to wish Vicki the best of luck in her future career as…
We have received information about the following competition. This competition is not only suited to our illustrating children’s book students, but I’m sure our graphic design students would be interested too. As always we are not affiliated with this competition in any way. If you enter and win – let…
One of our graphic design students has passed her course with flying colours and has been awarded a distinction. Vanessa Weaver, who tutors the Graphic Design Diploma course has sent me some of Christine’s work for the website and you can see two of her pieces below. We…
Jenna Whyte completed the Sci Fi Fantasy course a few years ago and has emailed us to let us know she has just released a new book called ‘The Illustrated Guide to the Elements’. Jenna Said – “The Illustrated Guide…