Month: February 2021
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 that lives under the sea…
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 black. There can be other…
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 college news blog. We have…
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 that depicts a group of…
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 inspired by the unusual shades…
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 Bayeux, DRAC Normandie, University of…
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 ‘red and black’! We understand…
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 Thakur watercolour painting of a…
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 my time between Cornwall, UK,…
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 photos, one each of her…
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 given him time to work…
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 knife along with viewing the…
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 to my practice and only…
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 smoke,” the villager said as…
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 point is drawing and therefore…
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 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 image is shared by Sarah…
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 was easier for me to…
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 wet watercolour washes for her…
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 a beginner with drawing and…
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 the styling of the logo…
Student Robyn Hopkins has created three incredible illustrations for songs for her first assignment on the Illustration Diploma. Tutor Steven encourages students to start thinking visually, with a gentle introduction to transforming words into pictures. Robyn has created three remarkable…
Welcome to our second Alphabet Challenge. Each month we are having a new letter of the alphabet and students can draw or paint anything as long as it is beginning with that letter. Last month was the letter A and…
Welcome to the results of this weekend’s art challenge – Macro. Some fantastic results from our students this week. We think everyone enjoyed looking at objects up close. We love the Dragonfruit painting by Lisa Emls below, very bold, bright,…
Tutor Heather Jolliffe has alerted us to a new exhibition for artists of all ages and abilities whilst we are all in lockdown. Its called The Great Big Art Exhibition which has been helped get started by artist Antony Gormley….
My name is Leila and I am an illustrator living in the beautiful region of Hertfordshire in the UK. I am an alumni of the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma course offered by the London Art College and tutored by Maggy…
All of my paintings are painted using Chinese inks on Chinese paper. Although I have experimented using watercolour paper, I feel only the Chinese rice/mulberry papers really give an authentic look feel and indeed experience of Chinese brush painting. As…
A new blog post by London Art College tutor, called The Durham Union Debate by Alan Dedman, is now live on his blog. He would like to encourage his students, and of course all of the London Art College students,…
Student Charlie Keeffe is currently working on the Illustration Diploma wth tutor Steven Hersey and has created these wonderful illustrations for his second assignment. Steven said “I did my assessment today for his second assignment, and thought this was a…
With the master work I tried to take on board the brief and create an image which was vibrant and inviting, that had a fun almost carnival atmosphere. Even thought the tortoises shell is centre stage, the birds feathers provide…