Month: June 2017
Students on our Landscape Diploma Course are producing some beautiful paintings and this is just one example by student Anne Rae. Its dynamic in terms of both colour and texture along with being a great composition too. It has been…
We may well have added this painting on the blog before, however it popped up again in our files. We love this painting so much it we wanted to show our students for inspiration. The painting is a self portrait…
My name is Richard and I have been studying the Pet portrait Diploma with the London Art College. Art was far and away my best subject at school. This did not mean much as I was awful at pretty well…
My name is Emily Miller and I am studying the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course with the London Art College. I’ve never really used more than a few pencils, using HB, H, and 2B when drawing and, in recent years…
Student Belinda Cullen’s watercolour painting of fish really caught our eye and we felt it was very worthy of being on our blog this week. We love the confidence Belinda has with watercolour. She has created some superb wet in…
Would you like to learn how to create professional pet portraits like student Brenda Brown’s beautiful painting below? Why not head on over to our online course page all about our Pet Portraits Course to find out how you could…
Elena Peres created these three pastel paintings for an assignment on the Pastel Painting Online Art Course we run which is a home study course. The first piece of artwork which Elena created below of the single apple is a…
This fantastic drawing is by Mike Foley who created this beautiful piece of artwork for one of his Coloured Pencil assignments. We feel it works really well being drawn on black paper and it really adds depth to this piece….
Charis Simpson is studying our Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma Course with tutor Maggy Roberts. maggy sent us one of Charis’ illustrations for our blog…. Charis said… “I have always dreamed about being a children’s book illustrator and this course seemed…
Kathleen Gordon has just finished her Botanical Painting Diploma Course, with a Distinction. Tutor Shevaun Doherty said… “I really love her page of Zinnia flowers. She painted Zinnias for one of her previous assignments, but decided to revisit them for…
My name is Rachel Duffield and I am studying the Children’s Illustration Books Online Art Course with tutor Maggy Roberts. The brief for this picture asked for an illustration that showed a friendship between a cow and a bird. The…
My name is Mokhtar Ibrahim and I am studying with Alan Dedman on both the Oil Painting Course and the Drawing and Painting Diploma. This work is referenced to an old painting dated back to the early years of the 19th…
We have two students on the blog today who have completed similar pieces of artwork for an assignment on our Cartooning Art Course. Both students are called Chris! The first piece of artwork below is by student Chris McDonald and he has…
Our Still Life Art Course is tutored by professional artist and painter Alan Dedman. Student Barbra Knapik has created three monochrome paintings for one of her Still Life assignments. Each painting has been accurately drawn along with being painted very precisely….
Our Pet Portraits Online Art Course is one of our most popular courses. Students gain experience not only painting pets, but wildlife too. The course covers all of the main mediums, along with an introduction on drawing to help brush up…
Amy Topper has created a stunning watercolour illustration for the Fiery Fred assignment on the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma Course. There is so much colour and detail in this illustration, lots for children to study. Amy has a joint Facebook page with…