Year: 2021
We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our lovely students far and wide, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Wherever you will be spending the festive season, enjoy yourselves, relax and keep safe….
My weekend challenge, ‘Christmas’ Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving and of families united. Merry Christmas to all! We absolutely adore Bhawna’s painting of ‘Christmas’ and we hope that everyone has a wonderful Christmas…
We are in absolute awe of student Sally Studley’s artwork below. We love it, it’s so beautiful! We wish Sally and her family a very Merry Christmas and a safe New Year. Looking forward to seeing more artwork from Sally…
Merry Christmas! My latest Christmas drawing. I‘m enjoying seeing all the Christmassy pictures here and on Instagram. #weekendchallenge We are thrilled you are enjoying the christmas artwork Priscilla and the Christmas collage on Instagram. If our readers haven’t seen our…
A wonderful Robin by London Art College student Rosalind today. We wish Rosalind and her family a very happy an safe Christmas, from all of us here at the college.
We love this one from Audrey Quinton, wonderful watercolour and pen study. we hope everyone is nearly ready for Christmas!!
One year, as a young child, I collected 100 hazelnuts from the garden, and presented them to my Mum to help save some money at Christmas time. This is ‘Posting hazelnuts’.
…..what had never thought about before: Maybe Father Christmas is a rather cool guy? Who knows? No one has ever seen him…
LAST MONTH TO ENTER the Derwent Art Prize Artists from around the world have until 4 JANUARY 2022 to… ✨ Enter artworks created in any pencil, including colour, water soluble, pastel, graphite and charcoal pencils. You can enter up to…
We are far away from our home so I will send these cards to my mom and sister for Christmas this year.Watercolor on paper.
‘It’s almost Christmas again and I would like to wish HOPE to everyone! My snowman was painted in watercolour, pen ink and acrylics.” We love your snowman Josiene and would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas from all…
“I wanted to draw an image of the traditional way of communicating by post at Christmas. In this digital world I think it would be sad for Christmas cards and letters to Santa by post disappearing for good.” We agree…
Some wonderful christmas cartoons today by Cartooning course student Alfred Reid. We love them and hope you do too!
“ Winter Fox “ I painted this Christmas card from my childhood memories. Red Fox in the snow reminds me Christmas is on the horizon. I have used acrylics on acrylic paper.
December challenge finally finished. Acrylic paints with white Posca for the highlights. White Posca is great for fine lines like cat’s whiskers on a dark background and can be purchased on amazon.
We love this scene by student Latha Bhaduri Prabakar, isn’t it wonderful! It will be featured on our Instagram collage soon too. Have you seen our instagram page yet? its pretty epic! Come over and follow us…. https://www.instagram.com/londonartcollege/
Merry Christmas to everyone at London Art College. A few of my silly snowmen…. Lynne Bagnall We would like to wish Lynne a very Happy Christmas too, we love her snowman collection and hope that they make you all smile!
Weekend Challenge ‘What December Means to Me’… December means festive rush – definitely. This little elf is moving with the times, as you will see if you read his message board. But will the mouse move too? Merry Christmas!
Weekend Challenge: What December means to me – For me this time of year means remembering family and friends who celebrate Christmas or Chanukah. This is a double sided design. The design below is the Christmas tree, for this I’ve…
We love this painting by Patti-Ann and know that her cat is just about to pounce on that bauble and cause plenty of Christmas havoc! Well done Patti-Ann – superb painting! Have you created your Christmas painting for our blog…
Here is my rabbit Christmas painting. I used Saunders Waterford paper, watercolours. It is a very popular design at the Art and Craft Events, I go to, especially at Christmas.
A handmade Christmas Angel drawn in coloured pencil by student Rosalind Spilling. We love it – its so beautiful! Well done Rosalind on a really delicate piece.
For me, Christmas is not just about celebrating and spending time with the family, it is also about long walks in nature. Watercolour landscape painting.
I made Chanukah cards this year for friends and drew a Dreidel, a game enjoyed by children at this time of year. It is a watercolour painting.
‘The first tree in the Greenwood.. it was the holly’ How can you have Christmas without holly? Holly has been associated with Christmas since medieval times. It represents so much: Evergreen – being always present Berries – a source of food (although…
IN THE BEGINNING…………………… Now, where did my Art inspiration come from?? Well, believe it or not, pumpkins! Pumpkins, you are saying!! Yes, pumpkins. I am an American, having lived in the UK for many years, since a youngster and being…
The Pastel Certificate course with the London Art College is the perfect way to become well acquainted with all things pastel. From conte sticks, pastel pencils, soft and hard pastels and oil pastels, this course introduces you to a range…
Student Andrew Yorston has been learning to draw on our Beginners Drawing Course. The following studies are form his second assignment. We love the varying techniques Andrew has been utilising, form his line and shade still life, to his heavily…
Some lovely images today by London Art College student Andrea Williamson from the Coloured Pencil Course. We have also added the reference photos Andrea used to work from for her Set two assignments. This might give our students an insight…
Student Cynthia Davidson recently completed our Landscape Diploma course with tutor Alan Dedman. The images below are from Cynthia’s final set. We have also added her collection of study images which Cynthia created in preparation for her final piece. We…
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…
Welcome to our weekend challenge results, this week, all about the country of France. What amazing artwork we have received this week. So many beautiful pieces, we struggled to find our favourite as there were so many we wanted to…
Student Jane Naylor completed our Still Life Course and submitted some of the images below for her final assignment. Students can use a variety of mediums in the course and can specialise if they require. Jane’s paintings are absolutely wonderful,…
We thought that this was an excellent set of work to show on our blog to explain why its important to develop your work through sketches and studies to get to your final piece. Charito completed the first final piece…
Young artist Georgia Barrett created these amazing drawings whist working on our Drawing For Children course. We absolutely love them and can see that Georgia has a promising career ahead of herself! We hope you enjoy viewing them all too!…
Student Tess Burn has been studying on a number of our London Art College art courses and created these selection of pastel pieces for her assignments on our Pastel Painting course. We love the textures that Tess has created, particularly…
Student Thakur Balbeer Singh suggested that we have a set of challenges based on places around the world. Kind of like a world tour! We thought it was great idea and a good chance to for our students to not…
Welcome to our latest art challenge where we asked our students to create a drawing or painting on the theme of ‘Anything that floats’. What amazing paintings and drawing we have received this week. It was so difficult to choose…
London Art College student Helen Acosta has completed her Pet Portrait Diploma Course with tutor Gayle Mason. We love her final painting and her flyer for her portraits is wonderful. We hope you enjoy viewing Helen’s artwork and reading about…
Here are some more amazing pieces of work by student Jenny Nutborne who is working on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. This exercise was for the ‘All is Dark’ challenge. Take a read of Jenny’s notes on her work…
Student Emmet O’Sullivan has just completed the Digital Illustration Course with tutor Monique Piscaer Bailey. We have added some of Emmet’s artwork below and hope you enjoy viewing them. If you have any interest in digital illustration or digital art,…
Student Justė Olsevičiūtė suggested we set a weekend challenge on the theme of ships. We loved that idea and felt we would broaden it a little to encompass any ‘vessel that floats’. So students could indeed paint a ship, a…
Welcome to our results for our weekend art challenge on the alphabet theme. This week our letter was ‘K’ and our students came up with a number of ideas including a variety of kingfishers, Koi, kiwi fruit, kittens, koalas and…
London Art College student Clifford Herbert has just completed our Illustration Diploma course and passed with a Distinction. Tutor Steve Hersey was over the moon with Cliffords work and said – Clifford has just completed his Illustration Diploma course and…
I have recently completed the Illustration Course at the London Art College with tutor Steven Hersey which I very much enjoyed. I have always loved the chaos and joy in Quentin Blake’s illustrations. I had the idea of reimagining the characters in Velazquez’s…
London Art College student Serap Keser has just completed the Botanical Painting Diploma Course with tutor Polly O’Leary. Serap’s artwork is absolutely amazing and you can see more of her work if you head over to Instagram and follow here…
Our final Alphabet challenge of the year! We hope that you have been enjoying them so far! This months Challenge is K! Draw or paint anything beginning with that letter. Its a pretty easy one this month, there are lots…
Welcome to our latest Weekend Art Challenge on the theme of Celebration! We love the artwork that has been created for this theme, especially our feature image this week by student Katja Felbel. The little characters Katja has bought to…
We have shown some of Cerys’s work before on our blog and are always impressed in each painting or drawing she has created. The following shows a selection from on of her assignments on the Pet Portraits Course and some…
Our short courses are an excellent way of dipping your toes into learning to draw or paint and getting a bit of experience and fun along the way. Student Brenda Smith has been experimenting with paint and colours on our…
Some beautiful and delicate drawings today by London Art College student Marianna Magi who created this for one of her assignments on the Botanical Painting Diploma Course. We love them all and hope that our readers are impressed too. If…
Today’s art challenge covers a lot of ground. We would like you to celebrate in art form, the theme ‘celebration’! It could be anything from the birth of a child, a wedding or engagement, a birthday for someone of any…
Welcome to our scary results for this weekends art challenge on the theme of Halloween!! Our feature image this week is by student Pauline Burke who created a very atmospheric and clever way of portraying lots of glowing pumpkins in…
Student Jane Tivey has created two wonderful drawings of her hands for her pastel course assignment. Read about how Jane created the drawings below. Tonal Hand – I decided to try with the back of my hand on the table…
Coloured Pencil student Carole Mallatratt had created two wonderful drawings for her Coloured Pencil Course. The task was to set up a still life and then first draw it in graphite pencil to get to grips with the depth of…
Young artist Alec Anderson (10 years and 9 months old at the time!) created the following drawings whilst studying our Drawing for Children Course 1. Aren’t they amazing! If you have a budding little artists in your household, why not…
We have a wonderful collection of paintings to show today. All of our students have created incredible paintings below and we hope that you enjoy viewing them. Scroll down to see the artwork and the students who painted them. The…
This weekends art challenge is all about Halloween. It’s that time of year again! You can create a scary painting or drawing using your wild imaginations, or perhaps choose to do something a little more traditional with a still life…
What an absolutely fantastic idea for a challenge. Thank you to Latha Bhaduri Prabakar for suggesting the theme for us this week – Indoor Sports! Latha has created the artwork below of a hula hoop lady and it’s full of…
Prior to this course, my experience in art other than a very brief sojourn in my twenties was at school during the 1970’s, where we were left to our own devices and radio 1 playing the hits of the decade….
Student Lesley Booth has completed the Coloured Pencil Diploma Course with tutor Monica Cilmi. Monika was thrilled with Lesley’s artwork and sent it to us for inclusion here on our blog. We are thrilled she did. Aren’t her pieces wonderful!…
I have thoroughly enjoyed the Colour Pencils Course and would certainly recommend it: there is so much more to colour pencils than I imagined and Monika has been so helpful and encouraging with her feedbacks. Wild Animals For this composition…
Welcome to the winners of this years 2021 London Art College Art Competition! The winner is student Shailaja Rathinavel and the runner up is Habimana Augustin. Congratulations to both students, a very well deserved win! Take a look at all of the…
Student Latha Bhaduri Prabakar suggested that we challenge our students to the theme of sports and this week we have narrowed it down to ‘indoor Sports’. This can cover a wide range of sports, including gymnastics, indoor basketball, tennis, badminton,…
⚽️ Calling all ART & FOOTBALL fans! Exciting news:The Football Art Prize is CALLING FOR ENTRIES, giving artists the opportunity to… 🎨 Show their work to a distinguished panel of judges, including @davidjamesofficial @lottewubbenmoy @sachacraddock and Mark Wallinger. Take part in an exhibition which…
The UK Coloured Pencil Society’s 20th Anniversary Gala Exhibition. Thursday 14 to Sunday 24 October at Bargehouse @oxotowerwharf in London The exhibition will include 250 works by 150 UK and international artists – making it the largest exhibition @colourpenciluks ever…
Welcome to this weekends art challenge, all about Egypt. We asked our students to research Egypt and find out about the country, their culture and landscape. We then asked them to create a piece of artwork from what they had…
Student Philip Hickin has been creating some fantastic artwork for the Graphic Design Art Diploma Course and has just passed the course with a well deserved Distinction. We would like to officially congratulate Philip and wish him well in his…
In the past 18 months a lot has been said about the benefits of doing art or simply being creative, and I’m sure I won’t be able to write anything that hasn’t already been written or said in this regard. …
After finishing my Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma from London Art College, I have written and illustrated a few books and these are published at Apple Books online available for 51 countries to purchase. My latest book is called ‘Once Upon a…
Student Thakur Balbeer Singh suggested that we have a set of challenges based on places around the world. Kind of like a world tour! We thought it was great idea and a good chance to for our students to not…
Welcome to our most recent weekend art challenge where we invited our students to draw or paint something beginning with the letter J. Our feature image this week is by student Lowri Tolman who painted the various types of Jays…
This piece was one of the illustrations I produced for an early assignment in the Illustration course and is an illustration of a short poem by Lucy Maud Montgomery. This was the final illustration of the set and the poem…
I often visit The London Art College Facebook page and look at all the students’ excellent work, and fondly remember studying the Illustrating Children’s Book Course, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I passed with a merit in 2011. I can’t believe…