Month: November 2020

Weekend Art Challenge – Your Christmas & New Year

Welcome to the last weekend challenge of the year! We are getting ready for our Christmas countdown once again and we would love for you to get involved. We are looking for 32 pieces of fantastic artwork to be featured…

Weekend Art Challenge – Umbrellas

Welcome to the results of this weekends art challenge, on the theme of umbrellas! And what a colourful challenge it was! The paintings below are beautiful and some quite ingenious. We love Sarah’s drawing with a Dandelion as an umbrella….

Martina Zielinska Bentayou

Martina Zielinska Bentayou has been working on the Illustrating Children’s Course follow on course and has created some stunning illustrations below. Read about how Martina got on with her assignment text below….

Georgine Somer

Almost two years ago I started with my diploma course Botanical Painting. Flowers and plants have been always part of my interest and I even did draw them a lot. So, discovering the online course was for me a gift…

Lindsay Shaw

Visionary and Surreal Landscape – this topic was set towards the end of the Landscape Painting Diploma Course. It was an interesting challenge because I had never attempted this type of painting before. My tutor Alan recommended looking at the…

Weekend Art Challenge – Umbrella

We have a cheery weekend art challenge for everyone this weekend! We would like for you all to come up with some designs which encompass colourful umbrellas. They can be any size, shape and colour and for any theme. They…

Weekend Art Challenge – Green & White

Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge results. This weeks challenge was to try to paint a subject using only green and white. At first glance this challenge possibly sounded easy, however when you start to design or create artwork…

Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor is studying with tutor Alan Dedman and this is what Elizabeth sent Alan when she enrolled. You can see a few of Elizabeth’s amazing paintings below. I would love to be able to develop my own painting style…

Stuart Brandt

My name is Stuart Brandt and I am currently taking the illustration course with Maggy Roberts and the follow on course too. I really enjoyed this exercise below! I found my perception not the best, but feel the room gives…

Davina Raffaelli

Davina is enjoying discovering how versatile drawing with different types of pens can be. Especially in creating the textures and effects of plants and landscapes. She is currently working with Monica Cilmi on the Drawing with Pens course. Visit our…

Weekend Art Challenge – Green & White

Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge. At initial glance this challenge might seem easy – paint anything as long as its only using the colours green and white. However the more you start to think about what is it…

Weekend Art Challenge – Fireworks

Welcome to our sparkling weekend art challenge results. We have received some spectacular pieces of artwork this week from our theme of Fireworks. Our featured image this week is by Latha Bhaduri Prabakar who said …”For my family, fireworks reminds…

Carole Busby

When time and work permitted until retirement, I have been a life long keen amateur painter who hates drawing.  I am mostly self taught from DVDs and books a few workshops and I also did the Pet Portrait Diploma a…

Suzie Cardozo

When I first decided to sign up for the London Art College, I struggled to decide which course to take. I eventually decided on the Still Life Certificate as I was leaning towards a realistic approach and it looked to…

Audrey Quinton

My experience so far of the Digital Illustration Diploma Course: If you are reading this post because you are considering taking the Digital Illustration Diploma course, then let me first say that I can thoroughly recommend it. The course content…

Jan Nevill

I took the London Art College’s Cartooning course with John Byrne. He asked me to keep him updated with any developments in my cartooning after I finished the course. I have just created a website for my work where I put…

Alec Anderson

Young student Alex Anderson has already completed the Drawing for Children 1 Course and these drawings are form his second course Drawing for Children 2. We absolutely love them and they have all been created beautifully. The toy digger that…

Weekend Art Challenge – Fireworks

It’s officially fireworks night on the 5th of November here in the UK and many of us would normally be taking children and grandchildren to watch the displays. Perhaps this year with covid there wont be many happening, however we…

Winners of the London Art College Competition 2020

Welcome to our London Art College competition results. Our 2020 competition is now closed and you can view all of the Entries and Finalists on their dedicated pages. We received some incredible entries this year and it was a difficult…

Weekend Art Challenge – Halloween

Welcome to our scariest challenge to date! We think our students enjoyed this one! Our featured image is by Barbara Schunk and we love it. So simple, yet striking. You can see the full image at the bottom of the…

Ariana Harkiolakis

London Art College student Ariana Harkiolakis is studying our Digital illustration course with tutor Monique. Ariana has explained how she created both illustrations using digital software. We hope that you find it insightful and if you would like to ahve…

Rosy Davis

Rosy Davis, is approaching midway through the Graphic Design Art Diploma Course. She has produced some lovely typographic work, as well as an excellent tonal study. It really demonstrates her versatility with art and design.  The first piece is a…