Year: 2015

Festive Artwork – Drew Sth

Todays Festive artwork is by Student Drew Sth who has created watercolour pieces depicting scenes around Singapore. Draw Said “Singapore is a tropical country all year round, hence it was fun imagining what it would be like if winter comes…

Festive Artwork – Beatrice Giacomini

A beautiful illustration of a Robin for today’s festive piece by student Beatrice Giacomini.

Festive Artwork – Sarah Lister

Boxing Day – Lindsey Loewen

The perfect piece of artwork for Boxing Day by student Lindsey Loewen.

Merry Christmas from us all at the London Art College!

Merry Christmas from us all at the London Art College!

Happy Christmas  Eve!!

Today’s Christmas artwork is by student Sarah Lister. Happy Christmas Eve!

Christmas Countdown – Sruthi Nair

The big day is nearly here and Santa is on his way…! Today’s Christmas Countdown image is by student Sruthi Nair who created this piece digitally. We hope it helps to get everyone in the Christmas spirit!

Christmas Countdown by Inari Johnson

Today’s Christmas countdown is by completed student Inari Johnson. Her Santa in Charcoal is absolutely superb! You can see more of Inari’s artwork on her blog  https://ambiguousbrush.wordpress.com and on her website too ambiguousbrush.com.

Christmas Countdown – Sarah Lister

Isn’t this just a beautiful scene! Its by student Sarah Lister and we absolutely love it!

Christmas Countdown – Keziah Herbert!

Today’s Christmas countdown artwork is by student Keziah Herbert. We love the characters Keziah creates and you can visit Kezhiah’s website and Facebook page at the links below below. https://fuzzbumdesigns.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/KeziahHerbertIllustration/

Christmas Countdown Yvonne Overheul

This is a most wonderful illustration by student Yvonne Overheul who is currently studying on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma. Yvonne created this illustration along with a help from her little daughter Arianna Pompeo, who is 11 years old. We would like…

Christmas Countdown – Jodi Wood

We are getting very close to Christmas now and I’m sure student Jodi Wood’s fantastic scene below will be a very familiar one in many households! We would like to wish a very happy christmas to Jodi and her family.

Christmas Countdown – Drew Sth

Todays Festive artwork is by Student Drew Sth who has created watercolour pieces depicting scenes around Singapore. Draw Said “Singapore is a tropical country all year round, hence it was fun imagining what it would be like if winter comes…

Christmas Countdown – Keziah Herbert

Today’s Christmas countdown artwork is by student Keziah Herbert. The ferret owners amongst our readers will love this one! You can visit Kezhiah’s website and Facebook page at the links below below. https://fuzzbumdesigns.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/KeziahHerbertIllustration/

Christmas Countdown – Sarah Lister

Today’s Christmas countdown piece is by Children’s Illustrator Sarah Lister. Her Hogwarts inspired illustration is simply superb and the more you study it…the more you will see! We will be having more illustrations from Sarah in our Christmas countdown, so stay…

Christmas Countdown – Leila Nabih

Today’s Christmas Countdown painting is by Leila Nabih and it is an absolutely wonderful illustration, beautifully designed and executed. We absolutely love it!

Christmas Countdown – Beatrice Giacomini

Beatrice Giacomini had provided us with a superb watercolour and coloured pencil study of an owl for todays Christmas countdown. We absolutely love this little character and hope you all do too!

Alison Huges

Todays artwork for our Christmas countdown is by Alison Huges, a beautiful close up painting of a Deer.  Simply Stunning!

Alankrita Jain

Today’s Christmas Countdown is by Alankrita Jain and such a fun and happy illustration to get us into the festive spirit!!

Christmas Countdown – Eleanor Patrick

This is one of my personal favourite paintings in the Colleges Christmas Countdown 2015. I have my own brood of chickens and its lovely to see a wintery scene with chickens having fun! The painting is by Eleanor Patrick and we…

Christmas Countdown – Alison Huges

Christmas Countdown – Todays artwork is by Alison Huges and we love the victorian feel Alison has created within the scene. Superb!

Christmas Countdown – Keziah Herbert

Keziah Herbert is studying with Maggy Roberts on the follow on course for Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course and has created an array of christmas cards of her ferrets. Here is the first and we absolutely love it! You can…

Christmas Countdown – Mary Costello

We come to our second day of our Christmas Countdown. We absolutely love this Cartoon Illustration from student Mary Costello who is currently studying with us on the Pet Portrait Diploma Course.  We think our Cartooning Tutor John Byrne will be…

Christmas Countdown – Beatrice Giacomini

Welcome to the opening day of our Christmas Countdown! We asked our students in ‘The Common Room‘  if they had any festive paintings and drawings that they had created this year that they wouldn’t mind sharing with us and we have received…

Heather’s Book Illustration

My name is Heather Roberton and I am studying on the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma Course. Earlier this year I visited a local art exhibition and got talking to one of the artists about the studies we were both doing….

Heather Robertson

My name is Heather Robertson and I am studying with Maggy Roberts on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. My illustration below is from the ‘Scary Poem’ Assignment and I found this to be the most difficult of all the…

Keziah Herbert

Hello! I’m Keziah, and I am currently on the Children’s Book Illustration follow on course with Maggy Roberts. I finished the first part of the course with a distinction earlier this year, and it has made me much more confident…

Nicola Drake

Nicola Drake painted this amazing study while working on the Still Life course with tutor Alan Dedman. We absolutely love it! The depth of colour, richness of the paint, the well observed shadows and highlights and the techniques used in the…

Phoebe Sayer

Phoebe Sayer on the Drawing for Children’s course has invented a fabulous new creature for one of her exercises. Isn’t it fantastic! Can you work out what animals went into creating the new character?

Eleanor Patrick

Eleanor Patrick has completed the Illustration Diploma with flying colours and earned herself the highest award of Distinction. The key to this course is the interpretation of a variety of writings and concepts, and students must work creatively and methodically…

Marc Davis

Marc Davis has created some superb cartoons for one of his assignments on the Cartooning Diploma Course with tutor John Byrne. We absolutely love the portrait of Dave Myers and we really look forward to seeing more artwork from Marc in…

Elisabeth Planella

Elisabeth Planella’s painting for the oil course is superb. We love the solidity and realness Elisabeth has created here, it really feels as though you could walk into the scene and pick up or touch the objects around you. A…

Tutor Wanted!!!

We are looking for a new tutor for our Watercolour Diploma Course. Send your CV with examples of your work to admin@londonartcollege.co.uk. Applicants must have teaching experience and be proficient using watercolour. Basic computer skills are essential. Applicants must be a UK resident.

Jess Mathiasen

We have received this wonderful pen and ink wash drawing from Jess Mathiasen on the Science Fiction and Fantasy course  tutored by John Byrne. We love the movement Jess has created in the drawing, the characters are superb too!

Jane Harrington

Jane Harrington who studied with Jan Nesbitt on the Watercolour Diploma Course has created the most beautiful painting in watercolour. We love the vivid colours and the wonderful design to the painting – congratulations on a superb piece!

Vallabhi Shegaonkar

This is Vallabhi Shegaonkar from D6 Illustrating Children’s Books Dip course. I have used a kind of decorative style for this illustration as I never wanted it to appear monotonous. The core theme is that children are fond of sweets of…

Celeste Abrahams

Celeste Abrahams who is studying with Rona Cox on our Photography Diploma Course took this very well timed photo of a stormy sky and lightening. Absolutely superb!

Ruth Bain

Ruth Bain studied with tutor Vanessa Weaver on the Graphic Design Diploma and passed with flying colours. This is one of her wonderful paintings from the course.

Shauna Read

Shauna Read creating this painting while studying on the Beginners Painting course. We absolutely love this, the wet in wet washes, the bright vibrant autumnal colours of the trees and the hint of a building nestled in the scene. Most wonderful!

Senur-Bicer

Senur Bicer created this wonderful painting while studying with tutor Monica Cilmi on the Chinese Brush painting course. Isn’t it beautiful!

Roger Rowley

A superb painting by Roger Rowley who is studying on the life drawing course with Alan Dedman.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween Everyone!!! Illustration by Jamie Hardy Digital Illustration Diploma Instagram: @majiklecreations Facebook: facebook.com/majiklecreations Website – www.majiklecreations.com

One day to go ’till Halloween…..by Jamie Hardy

Jamie Hardy is very kindly providing us with our Halloween illustrations for our social media this year. Today is a pre halloween piece….keep your eyes peeled tomorrow for the next one….. Jamie Hardy Digital Illustration Instagram: @majiklecreations Facebook: facebook.com/majiklecreations Website – www.majiklecreations.com Halloweeen

Sophie Delesque

Sophie Delesque created this beautiful drawing while working on the Botanical Coloured pencil course. We love the way Sophie has layered a variety of greens and yellows to create her transitions between the tones and hues. Excellent work!

This years AGM…….

Here are just a handful of photos of the tutors at this years annual general meeting in Bristol. Rona Cox, our photography tutor set up a group photo for those who attended which you can see below. It was a very useful…

Bhagawati Chettri

Digital Illustration student Bhagawati Chettri has earned herself a Distinction following her studies with the college. She demonstrated a solid grasp of all the technical concepts covered in the course and produced a digital portfolio of paintings, cartoons and vector…

Eleanor Patrick

By Eleanor Patrick – Illustration Diploma I was happy doing assignments 1 to 4 in the Illustration Diploma – it was even fun and exciting to try out new things. And then came sequential illustration tasks in assignment 5. I…

Josephine MacLeod

Josephine MacLeod was a student with the London Art College; she studied painting and drawing on the general diploma course, where she was tutored by Alan Dedman.  At the time she resided in Lagos, Nigeria. Her husband Norman MacLeod, used…

Nina Daniels

My name is Nina and I’m a freelance illustrator, artist and designer. I’m studying the illustration for children’s books diploma with Maggy. This is the fifth assignment, illustrating for a poem ‘When all is dark’. I’ve worked with ink and pen,…

Monique Piscaer Bailey

We have been asked by a number of students if Monique Bailey, the runner up in this years London Art College competition, could explain a little about how she created her painting ‘Girl and Swan’ pictured below. Monqiue has very kindly…

Stella Faliagka

Stella Faliagka is studying with Alan Dedman on the Colour Awareness course and this is a piece of artwork that Stella created for one of the exercises in the course.  this not only has helped Stella in working out colours, tones…

And the winners are……

All of the tutors at this years annual general meeting had a very difficult task choosing the winner and runner up from this years competition finalists. We had a record breaking number of entries this year at 156. We are extremely pleased to announce…

Sruthi Nair

Hi Everyone, My name is  Sruthi Nair (D11 Digital Illustration Course) and I have reached the five finalists for my work ‘Tree of life’ on the ArtStyle magazine competition. The winner will be chosen based on the number of ‘likes’ against…

Alison Hughes

Hello, I have just been told that I can share my great news. I have been selected as one of thirty artists, that will have their pet portrait picture showcased in an Ann Kullberg book. It will be one of…

Jamie Hardy

I am currently working on the digital art course, after completing illustrating for children’s books in 2014 and I am loving it! I actually recently reworked my very first assignment ever set by Maggie on the previous course ‘row, row,…

CHRISTMAS 2015 – Artwork wanted for blog countdown!

CHRISTMAS 2015 – Artwork wanted for blog countdown! Yes, we know its only October and none of you are thinking about Christmas yet, however we have to be organised and work ahead for the blog 🙂 We are looking to do a Christmas…

Competition Entries online!

Hi Everyone! The competition is now closed and you can see all of the entries online at the link below! Good luck everyone, let us know what you think! http://www.londonartcollege.co.uk/art-competition/art-competition-2015/entries.htm

ONLY 2 days left to Enter…

ONLY 2 days left to Enter…Submit your entry today!!!!

Sabine Krappmann

    Sabine Krappmann studied on the Botanical Painting Diploma Course and created this wonderful study of three peppers of varying colours. We absolutely love the way Sabine captured the three dimensional form of the peppers using light, shade and…

9 days left……

Only 9 days left to enter the official London Art College competition. Their biggest competition of the year! Students can enter one piece of artwork that they have created in any medium to entries@londonartcollege.co.uk You could be the winner of £200 in amazon…

Chammi Kaiser

Chammi Kaiser completed the Pet Portraits Diploma Course and passed with flying colours and this is one of her beautiful paintings from the final assignments. We love it and hope you do too!

Joanne Taylor

Joanne Taylor completed the Painting and Drawing course passing with flying colours and this is one of her fantastic portraits from the course. We hope you all like it!

Joan Gontarek

This is one of my personal favourite paintings by Joan Gontarek, who studied with us on the Pet Portraits Diploma Course a few years ago. It is very blogworthy and we hope that you all love it too!

London Art College Competition 2015

Have you submitted your entry for the London Art College Competition 2015? Time is running out, there are only two more weeks left to enter! You can enter any drawing or painting that you have created from all time. It doesn’t…

Paul Ward

This is one of my final pieces from the painting and drawing diploma. This has really taken me out of my comfort zone as I never would have painted figures let alone make them the main focus in my painting….

Ann Rae

Here is a most wonderful painting by completed student Ann Rae who studied on the Landscape Diploma Course. We absolutely love this piece and hope that you all do too!

Tameeka Jonstone

Congratulations to Tameeka Jonstone who has just passed the Drawing and Painting course with flying colours! We wish Tameeka the best of luck in her future artwork and career!

Alka Sikka

A wonderful drawing using pen and wash by Alka Sikka who studied on our Beginners Drawing Course.

Don’t forget…..

……to enter this years competition!!

Paul Ward

“This is oil on canvas and is of Dunstable Castle on the Northumberland coast where I spent 2 weeks for my holidays. This painting was inspired by the walk from the beach back to the campsite on a warm sunny…

Gary Scarisbrick

Gary Scarisbrick has just passed the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma Course with Flying colours receiving a distinction. Congratulations Gary, we wish you the best of luck in your future career!

Alethea Jack

Alethea Jack is an 8 year old Young Artist student who has completed a drawing of her favourite pair of trainers for her course. Tutor John Byrne said “big CONGRATULATIONS….your work is very, very good for an 8 year old….

Tracey Thomas

Although it was only launched at the end of January this year, one keen student has recently completed the new diploma course in Illustration. Tracey Thomas, who also successfully completed the Digital Illustration with the college last year and was…

Karen Dapas

I recently self-published a children’s book with my sister Linda titled: “Bully-Proof: No Bullies Allowed.”  I am a former student of Maggy Roberts (Children’s Book Illustration Course).  The main characters in the book were inspired by one of my course…

Paul Ward

I have always loved late dusk with the lights twinkling in the dark. This painting is inspired by a walk along Aberystwyth front as the light faded. I love the sea and the contrast of the happy lights to the…