This challenge has been suggested by student Maria Moon. We love this idea and we hope that the photos below prove to be a good source of inspiration to you all. Draw or paint anything
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Weekend Art Challenge – Red & Black
Welcome to our weekend art challenge which was based on the theme of the colours Red and Black. We set the students the task to try to create artwork only using the colours red and
Continue ReadingCheryl Day
Illustrating Children’s Book student Cheryl Day has completed two stunning pieces of artwork for her first set of artwork. Tutor Maggy Roberts was delighted with them both and asked for them to appear on our
Continue ReadingGloria Rossi
My favourite watercolour artists are Ann Mortimer and Geoff Kersey, I do really like their evocative realism style of painting, but I also love Hazel Soan’s loose style. For this assignment, I made a painting
Continue ReadingOlga Polyanska
London Art College student Olga Polianska has very kindly written about her artwork below. Olga studied on our Painting & Drawing Diploma Course and passed with a Distinction with tutor Paul Weaver. Lake:This work is
Continue ReadingExplore the Bayeux Tapestry Online
Discover the entire Bayeux Tapestry following online the 70 meter-long embroidered canvas which tells the story of the conquest of England in 1066. Official digital representation of the Bayeux Tapestry – 11th century. Credits: City of
Continue ReadingWeekend Art Challenge – The Colour Challenge
Welcome to our Colour Challenge. Each month we provide a new colour challenge whereby students can draw or paint anything they would like, as long as it is within those colours. This month it is
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Welcome to our weekend challenge all about ‘Australia’. Thank you to Thakur Balbeer Singh who suggested we have a set of challenges all about travelling the world and so we started with Australia. You can see
Continue ReadingSara Roberts
The ‘Australia’ prompt for this weekend’s challenge brought a welcome opportunity for me to look back in time. Since my retirement three years ago, and until travel was halted by the global pandemic, I divided
Continue ReadingJenny Pulford
Pet Portrait student Jenny Pulford has completed her set 5 artwork for the Diploma course and we have added some of it below for you all to see. Jenny has very cleverly taken three separate
Continue ReadingRob Pilsworth
Student Rob Pilsworth created both of these wonderful paintings while studying on our Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. Rob’s style of painting is superb and our art course allowed him to develop his style and
Continue ReadingTatjana Tarasenko
Tatjana Tarasenko is studying our Oil Painting Course with tutor Alan Dedman. The following pieces are from one of Tatjana’s recent sets of artwork and you can follow her text about experimenting with a pallet
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I was a complete beginner before taking this course, sketching in pencil for fun. I wanted to improve but I struggled to know what to do to reach the next level. I had no structure
Continue ReadingRuth Bowman
Fiery Fred in watercolour and Indian ink. Felt pens. Paper – Opus cold pressed watercolour paper. Mother always said a dragon should never burp in public. Now Fred knew why. “I think I can smell
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Although doing art at ‘A’ Level, I only started doing art again when I retired. Initially I started with pastels but have now progressed to using coloured pencils which are far less messy. My strong
Continue ReadingWeekend Art Challenge – Australia
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
Continue ReadingWeekend Challenge – The Alphabet Challenge – B
Welcome to this months Alphabet Challenge for the letter B. You can see how much fun our students have had this weekend and what great challenges these are turning out to B! 🙂 Our feature
Continue ReadingAnne-Sophie Laugier
The following is by student Anne-Sophie Laugier who has recently sent in her final assignment for the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma Course with tutor Maggy Roberts… I chose to do the exercise digitally, because it
Continue ReadingShazia Tabassum
London Art College student Shazia Tabassum studied on our Drawing and Painting Diploma Course and was able to devote time to practice with a variety of different mediums and subjects. Shazia experimented with wet in
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Some absolutely amazing illustrations and paintings from student Hester Groen De Porto who is studying our Painting and Drawing Diploma Course. Hester explains why he chose to enrol with the London Art College… I am
Continue ReadingMonica Bonvicini
The work below is by student Monica Bonvicini who created a logo for a traditional hat maker for one of her assignments on the Graphic Design Art Course. Tutor Vanessa Weaver says.. “Monica’s experimentation with
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