Year: 2020
Welcome to this weekend’s Art Challenge where the theme is Rainbows! We thought we would brighten your day by looking at colour and how rainbows are made, the colours within them and the transitions between each colour too. In a…
Welcome to this weeks art challenge. This post comes with a cuteness warning! We are sure that you will scroll down and smile at the beautiful paintings and drawings that have been created by our students. We hope you all…
Student Denise Roscoe has created this pen and ink drawing of a fish sellers yard in Whitby. Denise is currently studying the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course with tutor Paul Weaver. We hope to add Denise’s drawing to our website…
We have some wonderful artwork today, a collection of students work from the Drawing with Pens course tutored by Monika Cilmi. The students work below are Lynn Stuart James, Samuel Croyle, Anca Wicksman and you can see their names under…
Welcome to a wonderful collection of artwork by student Gayathri G. She is currently completing the Illustration Diploma with tutor Steven Hersey. These are just a few of the pieces Gayathri submitted for her first and second assignment. Steven was…
Welcome to this weekends artwork challenge. Its cuteness overload here! We would love for you to create a drawing or painting of a ‘Cute Animal’ similar to the photos you see below. You can use the photos or choose your…
Welcome to our weekend artwork with the theme – Cityscapes. We left the theme fairly open so that our students were able to add their own flare and creativity into the artwork. As you can see from looking at the…
These illustrations are by James Hutton for his second assignment for the Illustration Diploma Course. Simply excellent. Some outstanding examples of illustration in both technique and concept. Incredible detail and worth taking time to ponder over the pictures. Steven Hersey
Sebastian’s sink city has been hard work for me, but in the same time I really enjoyed it. I began my work searching for inspiration on internet. There I found a very interesting blog, written by Charlotte Kaill, with detailed…
When planning for “Fiery Fred”, I immediately wanted to portray a scene depicting a fairytale/country feel and took inspiration for style and colour palette from Alida Akers’ work. I wanted the colours to gradually become warmer as they move away…
Welcome to this weekends Art Challenge. We thought we’d mix things up a bit this week and ask our students to paint, draw or illustrate a cityscape. This can be any city at any time of day or night, in…
Welcome to the gallery of artwork for this weekends challenge, created by some very serene students! The pieces below are absolutely fantastic and we really hope that you all enjoy viewing them. So many different ideas for the theme this…
Student Shubhangi Jain has completed the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course with tutor Alan Dedman. Alan requested for Shubhangi’s artwork to be added to the college blog and we were delighted to. We hope you find them inspiring.
Today we have some beautiful artwork form student Rebecca Hearson who has just submitted her first set of work for the Illustrating Children’s book Diploma Course. Maggy said… A lovely first submission from Rebecca, she has submitted some outstanding work….
Tutor Alan Dedman has Recently been invited to participate in the opening of an exhibition of African Art at Hidden Lane Gallery in Glasgow. Alan showing some of his work alongside African artists, meeting some of them and joining an ‘Art…
Paul Weaver has an article out in the latest issue of ‘The Artist’ magazine (April 2020) ’The Magic of Snow & Frost in Watercolour’ and we have added a painting by Paul Weaver which you can see in the magazine below….
This weekends art challenge is quite an open subject. We thought as we generated lots of stormy artwork last week we would calm things down with the theme of Serenity this week. Interpret it how you would like and we…
What a beautiful array of artwork we have received for this weeks art challenge. The artwork below really does convey the theme of ‘Storms’ well and I hope that everyone enjoys viewing all of the pieces. A very wide selection…
Stunning illustration for our readers to view today. Diana Eastlake who is currently working with tutor Maggy Roberts on the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma course created this double page spread for one of her assignments. The bottle on the left…
The following painting was completed by Oksana Lupych who has just completed our Oil Painting course. The image below is part of her final assignment and is the from the abstract section of course exercises. Oksana said… For the abstract…
A lovely collation of artwork today by Illustration student Eva Chen. Tutor Steven Hersey was thrilled with all of the pieces. He said to Eva.. “This first assignment is outstanding. I would like to congratulate you on your work. It…
Here in the UK and in parts of Europe there have been lots of storms recently, this weekend we are being battered by Storm Dennis. We thought it would be a very apt challenge to create a piece of artwork…
Welcome to this weeks art challenge artwork! It is all about the eyes! We set students the task to either draw their own eyes in a mirror or draw or paint the eyes of friends and family members. If students…
Qian Tang Michel is currently studying our Portrait Painting Course with tutor Alan Dedman. The paintings and drawings Qian has created below are absolutely stunning and we hope that they inspire our students and readers. Qian Said… I already performed…
The Cartooning Diploma Course: This is a long blog post (just warning you now!) but the course was 18 months of sheer enjoyment so it warrants quite a few words (and illustrations!) in praise of it. Just in case you…
After four years as tutor on the Watercolour Diploma course, Jem Bowden has critiqued his last assignment for students at London Art College. A planned move to Scotland sees Jem go in new directions in life and work, although he…
Welcome to this weekends art challenge. We thought we would ease you in gently with painting portraits by starting with drawing eyes. You can either look in the mirror and draw your own, or if you have a friend or…
Welcome to our weekend art challenge artwork for the theme Cats and Kittens. We have received an overwhelming amount of entries this week and we are delighted to see the vast array of styles, ideas and beautiful artwork our students…
Louise Dexter created this selection of beautiful paintings whilst working on the drawing and painting course, along with travelling too. Louise said…. Watercolour 1 was painted while on holiday in the Algarve, surrounded by Bougainvillea so it made sense to…
Two wonderful paintings today by London Art College student Aneta Juszczak who is studying on our Portraits course. Both paintings are absolutely stunning and we hope that our students are inspired by them!
Jamie Simmons has created a beautiful double page spread as part of the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. Read Jamie’s experiences of the process below… “I did individual studies of each bird I wanted to use, before I sketched them…
Welcome to this weekend art challenge. We would like you to create a piece of unique art in any medium and of cats or kittens – or both! It can be a pure portrait style piece for our pet portrait…
Welcome to this weekend’s art challenge – Superheroes. The theme was a fantastic idea by our illustration tutor Steven Hersey! We have received some amazing paintings and we particularly like the watercolour by Vera Jaouadi which we have used as…
We have two wonderful oil paintings today by student Abigail Winfield. One is a final painting and the other is a full preparatory study. We feel that they are absolutely wonderful and are thrilled to be able to show them…
London Art College student Elizabeth Kelly, has been creating some beautiful artwork on the Chinese Brush Painting Course with tutor Monika Cilmi. We have added three wonderful pieces by Elizabeth below. If you would like to have a go at…
Alex is completing the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course with tutor Paul Weaver….. I deliberately put together a similar collection of items for a still life painting that I had seen on LAC, and it was useful to have such…
Welcome to this weekends Art Challenge! With thanks to our Illustration tutor Steven Hersey and his suggestion, we are excited to announce the them for this challenge is Superheroes! We have added a literal translation of the theme below in…
Welcome to our artwork for this weekends art challenge where the theme is Winter! We knew that this subject would allow our students to be very creative and come up with a wide range of paintings and drawings for this…
Student Federica Cesaroni has completed her second assignment in the Illustration Diploma Course. Tutor Steven Hersey said… “I think it is quite lovely, with sensitive and delicate drawing work done with charm and flair. I am constantly amazed at the…
We have collected all of the Christmas images that we didn’t manage to post in our Advent Calendar and hope you enjoy viewing them. We received so many amazing paintings, drawings and illustrations and cant thank our students enough! We…
Susan Heller has passed with a well deserved Distinction on the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. Tutor Paul Weaver was thrilled with Susan’s artwork and we have added a collection for our readers to view below. Congratulations Susan, we wish…
Hi, my name is Lisa. I am from Australia. I have just started the ‘Children’s Book Illustration’ course tutored by Maggy Roberts. This is my first assignment submitted in December 2019. The aim was to create a lively illustration for…
This weeks challenge is quite an open theme – its anything to do with Winter. You could draw or paint all sorts of things from a still life of pine cones, to a wintery snow scene, skaters on an ice…
Welcome to our first art challenge of the New Year and what an amazing array of artwork we have been sent! Our theme this week was Teddy Bears and we love them all! So many different bears in different poses….
Lucy Wheeler has created an illustration of a dog on a wall with a little bird. One great way of learning how to create illustrations of animals is to practice drawing fairly realistic animals and give them a character. You…
Student Ester Murphy completed these two pastel paintings whilst working on the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. We absolutely love the reflection of the small silver pot in the larger silver pot in the pastel with the light brown background….
A wonderful illustration today by London Art College Illustrating children’s book student Ethne Diian. So many things to see within the illustration, we hope you find it inspiring!
Still life student Barbra Knapik has created some stunning pieces of work for her assignments on the Still Life course. We particularly love the bronze and brass colours of the still life below with the striped cloth background. The glassy…
Welcome to our very first Art Challenge for 2020! We hope that you all had a lovely festive season and New Year and are ready to get back into the swing of things again with our art challenges. We thought…
Drawing and Painting student Elaine Marsh has created four wonderful paintings for one of her course assignments. We particularly like the first watercolour below with all of the tall buildings and shop fronts. Very colourful and the windows on each…
Pet Portrait Diploma student Iona Findlay has created some absolutely stunning coloured pencil drawings for one of her sets of work on the course. The first few images below are exercises in practicing how to capture eyes, fur, noses and…