Year: 2020

Welcome to our new weekend art challenge. We would love for you to study Giraffes. They are simply beautiful animals, majestic and powerful, yet so graceful, dainty and friendly too. Students might like to create a realistic painting or drawing full body, full background or head study. You might like to create a character design […]

Welcome to our most recent weekend art challenge, where we set the students the theme to create artwork on Musical Instruments. They had free rein to create paintings and drawings in any way they would like on this theme. The artwork below is simply wonderful! This weeks featured image is by student Elrita Roos and […]

Sue Quinn created these two coloured pencil drawings while studying on our Coloured Pencil Course. We have added the reference photos to go along side the drawings as we have found students find it really interesting to compare the artwork with the original photos. It shows how the student completed the drawing and often the […]

Deborah Birt has just completed the course with a DISTINCTION!  Debbie worked very hard and enjoyed trying different styles and approaches with her drawings and paintings. A selection from each of her sets of assignments can be seen below. Paul WeaverDrawing and Painting Diploma Tutor

My name is Rachel Pesterfield and I have just completed the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. The images below were all from my final assignment. I started with a few photoshoots of myself, my daughters and my nieces. I asked them to pull faces and use lots of different facial expressions. I drew some more […]

Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge! Do any of you play musical instruments? If you do, or you have access to one, we would love you to paint or draw it for our challenge. Set it up with sone strong lighting, or by a window in a sunny room, so that you can introduce […]

This weekends art challenge is a little different as we have been asked by the Association of Distance Learning Colleges (ADLC) to provide artwork for this years Christmas card. You can read about the challenge on our previous blog post here – Festive Artwork Challenge. We asked our students to see if they could come […]

Tutor Vanessa Weaver has shared some of Petra Trokanova work for our students below to see. Petra is studying the Graphic Design art course and has created some stunning pieces. Vanessa says…. Petra Trokanova is amazing! A very talented artist/designer! I love her illustration promoting travel to Slovakia. You can see the images below to […]

Pet Portrait – Lockdown Lifeline I signed up to the Pet Portrait course with London Art College back in February as something new and exciting to learn. This was just before the government announced countrywide lockdown. At the time I was running a small craft business and I would usually be getting ready to make new […]

I’m just on my last assignment for the Pet Portrait Diploma. To date I’ve completed the Children’s Illustrations Diploma, published a book, had some of my work printed on Greetings Cards and in Welsh Country Magazine. I have some experience in Digital art, but my love is acrylic and pencil and all things feathered and […]

Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge results. What an absolutely fantastic theme this week. Perfect for autumn – the colour orange! It has produced some amazing results and some very creative ideas from our students. The featured image this week is bold, bright and right on point! It screams orange and we love it. […]

Janki Sanghavi is currently studying on our Illustrating Children’s books Diploma course with tutor Maggie Roberts. Janki asked if her work could be featured on our blog and we were delighted to hear from her. Janki said…. I am an Architect by profession and an artist by passion. I have been working on different types […]

Tutor Paul Weaver who teaches our Drawing and Painting Diploma has sent us some wonderful artwork for the blog by student Anna Al Tahir. Paul was absolutely thrilled with Annas work and said the following…. Another of my lovely students passing with a Distinction. She worked very hard and certainly improved as she progressed which […]

Student Maria Ei Zar has sent us a step by step painting she has recently completed which is called “Delightful” to show on our blog. Maria painted this in watercolour at size 12” x 9”. We love the way that Maria has used the paint so freshly and delicately. Inspirational! If you would like your […]

This weekends art challenge is simple! All you need to do is draw or paint something orange – or the main part of the image should contain the colour orange similar to the photos below. Try to show and create something new – not that you have already completed. It can be in any medium, […]

Welcome to this week results of the art challenge we recently set all about Toadstools. The object this week was for students to be creative with the brief and they could use any medium and have fun with the idea. Our stunning featured image today is by new student Karan McKelvie and her toadstool painting […]

Student Rebecca Blake who has been studying on our Coloured Pencil Drawing Course has produced a collection of lovely portraits whilst on the course. Tutor Monika Cilmi has thoroughly enjoyed tutoring Rebecca and knows from working with her that she loves this subject and medium. It’s clear to see in the artwork below. We hope that […]