Month: March 2017

Edward Javier – Day 4 – Developing Drawing skills for painting

We hope that you have been enjoying following along with student Edward Javier (Oil Painting Art Course)on his journey with oils and watercolour. Todays final instalment is with charcoal and his final piece is absolutely stunning. Congratulations Edward on a fantastic…

Edward Javier – Day 3 – Using watercolours to revise your understanding of working with oils

Edward has now move on to working with watercolour for his still life setup and you can follow his progress below along with seeing his final painting. Materials Pencil(Burnt Umber colour) Cup to hold water A4 Watercolour paper Watercolour paints…

Edward Javier – Day 2 – Light and how we see colour

If you have been following along, yesterday we showed Edwards Javier’s colour wheel step by step. Today we are following his oil painting which fits with the exercise ‘Light and how we see colour’. Edward is currently taking the oil…

Edward Javier – Day 1 – Colour Wheel

Oil Painting student Edward Javier has completed set three of his course and emailed the most wonderful PDF of his step by steps and his process. We are going to split Edwards submission over the next few days so that…

Alex Hughes – Painting Birds

Chinese brush painting student Alex Huges has been practicing painting birds as you can see from his illustrations below. Tutor Monika Cilmi has been helping with advice and guidance while Alex has been working through the course. We have also…

Prabir Sarkar – Logo Designs

Prabir Sarkar has created three excellent logo designs for an assignments on the Graphic Design in Art Course tutored by tutor Vanessa Weaver. If you are on our graphic design course, why not drop us a line so we can…

Elaine Hughes – Life Drawing

Two lovely drawings from life today from student Elaine Hughes. Elaine studied on our Life Drawing and Painting course and we love these two studies. Each line has been carefully thought out and placed, along with a few simple lines for shading….

Joanne Lindley – Watercolour landscape / seascape

Joanne Lindley is currently studying the Watercolour Diploma Course and below are some snippets of her recent painting of a landscape and seascape based in Australia. I chose a personal photo from a trip I did last year along the Great…

Yolande Anderson – Cartooning

Love him or hate him…I think we can all tell who this is a cartoon of. Its fantastic, congratulations Yolande Anderson, on a achieving superb likeness!

Kathleen Armstrong – Botanical Painting

A very colourful painting to end the week on! Student Kathleen Armstrong, studying our Botanical Painting Course, has used some beautiful colours and created a very smooth texture here. We hope you like it too!

Colour Mixing – Learning To Paint

In general, most professional artists create colour mixing charts for their paintings.  It enables artists to be thoroughly familiar with their colours and helps them to learn which colours mix well and which colours perhaps don’t. It can also be…

Barbara Knight – Learn To Draw Short Course

Barbara Knight has created three fantastic drawings while studying our Learn to Draw short course. We love her still life drawing in particular. Do you struggle with your drawing abilities? Why not head over to our website and take a…

Edward Javier – Still Life in Oils

My name is Edward Javier and I am studying the Oil Painting Course with tutor Alan Dedman. Here is a step by step of my latest painting. I have picked still life for this exercise. Below is my setup…. Materials A4…

Magda Grabek – Row, Row, Row…

A wonderful illustration to start the week by Children’s Illustrator student Magda Grabek. Magda introduced herself to Maggy below…. My name is Magda and I’m 31 years old. 3 years ago I graduated as an art teacher, however I’ve never worked…

Anne Boland – Watching You!

I’m sure there are going to be many ‘Wows’ when our readers and students view this post. This painting is by Anne Boland and we think it should be called ‘Watching You’. The model is intently looking at us and it really…

Alison Smallwood – Study of Trees

Two lovely pieces of artwork today from student Alison Smallwood who is studying trees on the Watercolour Diploma Course.

Elizabeth Alexander – Sink City

Elizabeth Alexander is currently taking our Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma and this is her Sink City artwork. Elizabeth explains to maggy how she created the illustration and her though process behind it.We think its a fantastic idea and illustration – Congratulations Elizabeth….

Aisha Mussawa – Collection of Coursework

Aisha Mussawa is a student currently studying both our Drawing and Painting Diploma and Cartooning Diploma. Here is a collection of Aisha’s artwork and some text about them. My name is Aisha Mussawa and I am from Saudi Arabia. I have…

Yolanda Twivey – Coloured Pencil Conkers

Yolanda Twivey studied our Coloured Pencil Course and completed a few years ago. We are revisiting her amazing coloured pencil drawing of conkers as it still remains to this day one of our favourite coloured pencil studies. Her use of…

Caitlin’s Teddy…

Young artist Catlin, who is studying our Drawing for Children Course…steals the show today! Isn’t this wonderful!

Yvonne Ryves – Coloured Pencil Bottle

Here we have a coloured pencil drawing of a bottle and a wine glass by Yvonne Ryves. We find that its quite often helpful for our students to see artwork and the photo of the objects that the student has worked…

Seana Kozar – Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma

Maggie has emailed us a wonderful illustration to add to the blog today, by student Seana Kozar. Seana Said… For the black-and-white texture piece I created a helter-skelter from an Arial bottle. We didn’t have helter-skelters in Canada, so I decided…