Month: August 2017

Alison Hughes – Coloured Pencil

Student Alison Hughes has created two drawings for one of her assignments on the coloured pencil course. Alison worked from life however also took a photo of the scene so that her tutor course see what she was drawing. This is…

Galina Arthur – Portrait Painting

Galina Arthur has been creating some stunning artwork on our Portrait Painting Course with tutor Alan Dedman. Our portraiture students might like to also watch this speed painting video on YouTube for inspiration. It has been created by artist Ben…

Sarah Lister – Illustration

We hope all of our UK students had a lovely Bank Holiday Weekend and they put it to good use and did some drawing and painting! We thought we would start the week off with a fabulous illustration by Sarah…

Saima Jalil

Post by Student Saima Jalil It was a pleasure to receive your mail along with copy of my Certificate stating ‘Distinction’ in Oils. I am highly obliged and thankful to the entire team of London Art College who designed the…

John Crompton – Watercolour

Hello everyone, I’m John Crompton and I am studying the Watercolour Diploma with Jem Bowden.  My watercolour painting below was done on NOT paper, using Artist quality watercolours. I prefer to work from imagination rather than from nature. I wanted to do…

Don’t Forget……

Don’t forget to enter our competition…..!  

Zoe Blarowski – Botanical Coloured Pencil

Ida Mitrani, our tutor for the Botanical Coloured pencil course has said…. One of my students, Zoe Blarowski, has completed her course in Botanical art with coloured pencils. I have added two of her final drawings for the blog and…

Ana Mariela Gutierrez – Cartooning

My name is Ana Mariela Gutierrez and I am taking the Cartooning Diploma with John Byrne. I was in slight depression after my cat died. She had been with me for 14 years, from the time I came to UK….

Alison Hadavizadeh – Botanical Painting

The final post of the week showcases a wonderful painting by Alison Hadavizadeh from the Botanical Painting Course. If you have always wanted to draw and paint flowers, fruit and vegetables, hop on over to our website to read more about…

Aisha Mussawa – Diploma in Drawing and Painting

Aisha Mussawa has created this drawing from life for an assignment on our Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. The course teaches you the fundamentals of drawing and painting and it give you the opportunity to experiment with lots of different mediums…

Pooja Rajesh – Young Artist

Young artists Pooja Rajesh has created a fantastic drawing of his trainers for one of his assignments for the Drawing for Children course. I think we would all love to own trainers like these!

Come and join our new Facebook group!

We are thrilled to announce we have a new official Facebook group for all of our London Art college students. If you have a Facebook account visit our page – London Art College Facebook Group – and ask to join. It…

Helen Gibson

Tutor Maggy Roberts has emailed us this wonderful illustration by student Helen Gibson, how is currently taking our Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma Course. Helen has used a number of different techniques within her illustration to shade using her pen and…

Dawn Teacher – Mouse Pirate

I studied with Maggie Roberts for the Children’s Book Illustration Diploma and was awarded a distinction. I went on to do the follow course and wrote the picture book, Mouse Pirate. Through the follow on course I worked on the…

Mel Newing – Derwent Review no 2

So the last time I wrote about the Derwent Graphic pencil range was after completing my Lion drawing.  You can find my website and blog about it here – melnewingart.co.uk. This time I have two pictures which I would like to…

Chani Mores – Drawing for Children

Chani Mores has created a superb drawing for her assignment one exercises for our Drawing for Children Online Art Course tutored by John Byrne. Chani has used some lovely bright colours to shade her pepper..and also created a shadow on the…

Elaine Macintyre – When All is Dark

Starting off the week with a wonderful illustration by student Elaine Macintyre, who completed this for her Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma.

London Art College Competition 2017 – Open!

Our yearly London Art College competition is now open. All of our students can enter any piece of artwork they have created in any medium (apart from photography). We have already had 5 entries submitted and the competition only opened…