Month: February 2018

Karen Murphy

Student Karen Murphy studied on our Oil Painting Course and these are two wonderful paintings from her course assignments. Karen has a beautiful and textured style of painting which helps create movement in her work. The background to her still…

Christine Duckett

A superb painting today by Children’s Illustration student Christine Duckett. Christine has created lots of moment within the scene here with the Fiery Fred character. The bright rich orange colours of the land stand out so well from the deep…

Jackie Davies

Landscape Diploma student Jackie Davies has painted two studies in acrylic for one of her assignments. The scene is the same, however Jackie set herself the task to capture it at two different times of the day. This enabled Jackie…

Spooky Saturday Illustration

This weeks Spooky Saturday Illustration is by student Linda Tordoff.  

Aurelia Sieberhagen

A watercolour painting today by student Aurelia Sieberhagen. Isn’t it beautiful! Aurelia is studying on our Drawing and Painting Diploma and has been experiments with watercolour. Her layering techniques on the roses and we in wet washes in the background are…

Amelia Whiffin

Amelia Whiffin completed our Coloured Pencil Course and we have a number of Amelia’s drawings to post on our blog in the coming weeks. Her work in simply stunning, and this drawing of a cat under a blanket is no…

Diana Leighton

Student Diana Leighton created this collage wet in wet piece for one of the study units on the Illustrating Children’s Diploma Course. We love the ducks with coloured jumpers and especially the little frog at the front. We can see…

Batul Kaderbhai

Do we have any beginners amongst our readers? Anyone here who perhaps would like to take the plunge into a course but are a little worried about getting started? If so we have the perfect course for you! It is…

Spooky Saturday Illustration

This weeks Spooky Saturday Illustration is by student Sakuntala Upadhaya Minnie.  

Anita Bakos

Jem Bowden has sent us these two wonderful watercolours by student Anita Bakos who is studying on the Watercolour Diploma Course. Jem Said…. Great fluid watercolour work from Anita Bakos on the Watercolour Diploma course. Combining careful observation of form with…

Barry Swarbrick

I have just completed the Pet Portraits Course with Gayle Mason and I was thrilled to find out I received a distinction. I enjoyed the course more than I thought possible and can’t thank tutor Gayle Mason enough for her…

Anne Price

Tutor Stewart Roberts :- I don’t usually submit my student’s work for blog posts but this one seemed to exemplify the idea of examining an artwork firstly without any prior knowledge and then subsequently researching it. The student was Anne Price…

Anne Grimer

Anne Grimer is a beginner in drawing and painting portraits and she has started using graphite pencil to practice drawing portraits of people. She is working with tutor Alan Dedman on the Portrait Painting Course and is coming along really…

Ann Hunt

I have just received my Diploma for the Watercolour Course and am thrilled to have gained the added bonus of Distinction. I cannot thank my tutor, Jem Bowden enough for his patient and encouraging critiques. I started the course as a…

Spooky Saturday Illustration

This weeks Spooky Saturday Illustration is by student Sarah Harris.

Alethea Jack

Perhaps some of our readers of our blog may not know that we not only teach adults, we also teach children and young artists too! We have two wonderful Drawing for Children courses for ages 7 and above and Alethea…

Beatrice Anderson

Beatrice Anderson studied our Pet Portraits Diploma course and these pieces were from her first study set. The course starts with a drawing refresher as it is important to be accurate when drawing and painting animals. Beatrice drew an earthenware…

Alison Hughes

The drawings below are by student Alison Hughes who studied our Coloured Pencil Course. The first two drawings below are from the still life assignment. Students are asked first to draw a still life in graphite pencil to help them…

Raul Saria

Raul Saria has painted two wonderful watercolour paintings which we have added below. The first painting is absolutely stunning. The wet in wet washes are very accomplished and the way Raul has painted the wet road is superb. The second…

Valerie Anstey

Valerie Anstey is currently studying on the Portrait Painting Course and we are thrilled to be able to add her work here on our blog. We have added two of her paintings from her assignments below and we feel they…

Spooky Saturday Illustration

This weeks Spooky Saturday Illustration is by student Amy Curran.

Gwenda Reavle

Undertaking the Pet Portrait Diploma course, my daughters lovely German Wired Haired Pointer was tragically knocked down by a car. I thought it would be nice if I could do a picture to remember him by. I shed tears when…

Simon Breeze

I really enjoyed the Science Fiction and Fantasy course and I would recommend it to anyone who is thinking of illustrating Science Fiction & Fantasy art either for a profession or as a hobby. John Byrne is a really great…