Month: October 2019
Welcome to this weeks Halloween Challenge. I hope that you aren’t too scared looking at the amazing artwork on offer this week. Particuarly Magdalena’s ink artwork – incredible!! Our students must have had a lot of fun completing this challenge….
We are absolutely thrilled and delighted to announce this years winner and runner up of our London Art College 2019 art competition. The winner is Claire D’Arcy and the runner up is Olga Polianska. We have added both pieces of…
Three super pieces of art from Kathleen Kerr who has been working very har don the Landscape painting course with tutor Alan Dedman. Each painting below has a lovely natural feel. The colours Kathleen has mixed on her pallet, has…
Digital illustration student Emily Kent recently said she had struggled to complete the course when she got a bit stuck on the final assignments, but she had managed to work through it. We asked if she could write a piece…
These two circular paintings are of different areas of the village of Cruden Bay. Painting to this format immediately draws your eye into the picture and focuses on the main object of the painting. With square/ rectangular formats you always…
Thank you to everyone who entered into our 2019 London Art College Art Competition. We had an amazing turn out this year and you can see all of the entries at the link below. It is accompanied by the amazing…
Welcome to our spookiest challenge of the year! Calling all illustrators, cartoonists and painters! Send us some of your spookiest and eeriest cartoons, spooky characters or your draw the most spooky still life set up you can! Have fun with…
Welcome to our Autumn leaves artwork challenge – and what a popular subject this one was! We have received so many amazing paintings of leaves, they are all simply stunning! It’s the right time of year for leaf drawing and…
Still life is the theme for Linda Brughera’s artwork for this set. Linda created these for her Coloured Pencil Drawing Course. We particularly love her cola can, glass and magazine drawing below. The reflections from the can and magazine on…
Three beautifully colourful illustrations today by student Joanna McCammond who is working on the Illustrating children’s books diploma Course. We love the perspective that Joanna used for the cow and duck illustration below. Looking down on the patchwork blanket, their…
Today’s blog post is dedicated to the work of student Emer Cullen. Emer has been studying how to paint in oils with Tutor Alan Dedman on the Oil painting course. The finished painting below is absolutely superb and we love…
Welcome to our Autumn leaves weekend art challenge. We thought that as it is getting very autumnal outside here in the UK, it might be great to have an autumnal challenge. The paintings below have been created by artist Eliot…
Welcome to this weekend Art Challenge – Scones, Jam and Cream! Is it making anyone hungry yet? All of the students have handled the texture of the scones beautifully. This wasn’t an easy task, especially with the sones and cream…
An absolutely stunning painting today by student Ann Hunt who painted this whilst on the Watercolour Diploma Course. Ann is a very proficient watercolourist and we had aded a close up detail of the windmill to show the beautifully delicate…
Hana Teasar completed the Graphic Design Art Diploma Course with tutor Vanessa weaver. We are delighted to be able to add one of Hana’s projects here on our blog to inspire our students with. Hana was asked to design a…
Student David Maidment has been creating some wonderful artwork on the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. The course allows students to practice different mediums along with studying different subjects. As you can see below, David has worked in pencil and…
This weekends challenge is going to be difficult to not eat while you are drawing or painting it! We would love for you to draw or paint some scones with jam and cream. Your only dilemma is – are you…
Welcome to this weeks art challenge depicting of oranges and orange peel. This is a fantastic exercise as it combines not only colour but also the varied textures on the orange and peel to contend with. If you think about…
A wonderful collection of work from students on the Digital illustration course. Each one so diverse and interesting. We hope that you find them inspiring and if you would like to have a go at digital illustration, why not join…
A Collection of Litter – I decided to complete this as a vignette rather than try to fill the whole page. Again using a mixture of Polychomos and Coloursoft, but on a smoother support of 200 gsm cartridge paper. The…
The Elmer trail in Ipswich has now come to a close. Once it was all complete there was the auction for the charity involved on October 3rd. I am so excited to announce that my Elmer ‘Life in it’s Diversity’…
Three superb drawings today by student Babs Williams who is studying on our Beginners Drawing Course. These are excellent studies of objects that can easily be found around the home and great ones to practice with.
This weekend’s art challenge is very orange! We would like you to portray either an orange, tangerine or clementine with the peel coming off, revealing part of the inside of the orange. It can be similar to some of the…
Welcome to our latest art challenge – the three colour challenge. What a wonderful selection of artwork we have for everyone to see today!! So many different genres all using just three colours. Isn’t it amazing what can be achieved…