Month: January 2018

Larisa Andreassen

We have lots of wonderful paintings and studies to show our students and readers today. They have all be created by Landscape Painting Diploma student Larisa Andreassen. Each painting and study holds their won special qualities however my personal favourite…

Elena Statham

This has to be one of my favourite illustrations in recent weeks to land in my email inbox from tutor Maggy Roberts! It’s by student Elena Statham who is studying with Maggy on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. I have…

Debbie Moylan

Do we have any budding graphic designers and digital illustrators here? If we do, Debbies’ artwork should be of interest to you! Debbie Moylan created these pieces for an assignment on the Graphic Design Art Diploma Course and worked on…

Spooky Saturday Illustration

This weeks Spooky Saturday Illustration is by student Monique Bailey.

Adele Gregory

Adele Gregory visited the beach and coastline for one of her assignments on the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course as you can see below. We have added two of Adele’s artwork and we absolutely love the shell study. Isn’t it…

Denise Wood

Two bright and happy digital illustrations today by London Art College student Denise Wood who is studying on our Digital Illustration Course. The illustrations show two very different techniques, one outline and flat colours to create the form of the…

Jue James

Jue James has created three versions of this particular layout of daffodil studies for one of her assignments on the Botanical Painting course. The first is a simple pen and ink with stipple for shading detail. The second is the…

Angel Service

  Angela Service has created a lovely pen and ink drawing from life of a collection of items from her kitchen for one of the assignments on the Learn To Draw Course. This course is excellent for beginners or for…

Dean Jones

We absolutely love Dean’s illustration below. How wonderfully happy, colourful and bright – perfect for a children’s story book. Dean Jones created this for his assignment on the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma and we hope our illustrating students find it…

Chris Jaffe

We have some superb cartoons for todays blog post by Cartooning Diploma student Chris Jaffe. We probably should have posted the first illustration last Christmas! It is a very well thought out design and your eye first goes to the sprouts…

Spooky Saturday Illustration….

This weeks Spooky Saturday Illustration is by student Paula Prestwood.  

Craig Waterworth

Lots of artwork today from student Craig Waterworth. Craig created these pieces while studying on our Science Fiction and Fantasy Course with tutor John Byrne. The artwork is extremely creative and we are thrilled to be able to include it…

Alan Caswell

The pantings today are by student Alan Caswell who created these two beautiful pieces of artwork for an assignment on the Landscape Diploma Course. Alan has titled each painting ‘End of a Good day’ and ‘Garden’. We particularly like the…

Ann Edwards

Three beautiful and bright pastel drawings today by student Ann Edwards who has been working towards her certificate on the Pastel Painting Course. We love the bold colours and mark making that Ann has achieved here in her studies from life….

Alison Croft

Two stunning pieces of artwork today from Pet Portraits Diploma Course student Alison Croft. The cat portrait below has been created using coloured pencils and it beautiful. Alison has captured the detail of the fur beautifully. Shading white fur is…

Pete Levey & Derwent

Student Pete Levey participated in testing Derwents new graphite pencils last year and we are now able to add his results here on our blog. We have added his artwork along with the blog post he did for Derwent last…

Spooky Saturday Illustration

Todays Spooky Saturday Illustration is by student Ursula Brozovich….

Archana Bahri Khanna

We have received two wonderful photos of student Archana Bahri Khanna, the moment she received her certificate from her postie! We are absolutely thrilled to see them and add them to our blog. If you have received your diploma in the…

Alan Connor

Having completed the Watercolour Painting  Course with Jem Bowden I was delighted to receive the College Diploma. The whole Course was very instructive an d stimulating. The main messages I took form the tuition was that a successful watercolour  is…

Priscilla Hocking

We are thrilled to be able to show a Sebastians Sink City illustration on our blog today written and illustrated by student Priscilla Hocking. Sebastian’s Sink City Sebastian was a huge challenge for me. I enjoy looking at it now…

Jo Ferguson

I’m a former student of the Children’s Book Illustration course, graduating with Distinction. I thoroughly enjoyed the course and the tuition with Maggy Roberts was first class, she was very positive and constructive and I always looked forward to seeing…

Lucie Cerna

These are Lucie Cerna’s responses to two drawing based tasks. The Graphics course starts out with a number of drawing based Study Units that look at composition, mark making and tone. Lucie has shown great awareness of these in two…

Spooky Saturday Illustration

If you remember last year, prior to our Christmas countdown, we announced a new feature on the blog called Spooky Saturday Illustrations! We will be posting students spooky artwork from the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. Tutor Maggy Roberts receives…

Olena Bogatska & Melanie Goode

Tutor Alan Dedman has sent us over two batches of student artwork from his Oils Painting Diploma course. Alan is thrilled with the artwork and has said the following…… Both students showed a good attitude towards experimenting and playing with…

Ann Jordan

Ann Jordan has  recently finished the Botanical coloured pencil course and we have added two of Ann’s botanical pieces below for everyone to see – and be inspired by. Tutor Ida Mitrani said…. Beautiful and promising artwork. I wish Ann a…

Beautiful Robin….

We hope you enjoy today’s artwork by student Cherry Ferris. I think this has to be our favourite Robin illustration so far! Isn’t it beautiful!!  

Continuing New Year Themed Artwork!

A beautiful illustration of Mistletoe for todays blog post, painted by student Cherry Ferris.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all of our students and readers of our blog! We hope 2018 is a fabulous and creative time for you all. The cartoon below has been Illustration by Alfred Reid.