Month: March 2021
I have loved all kinds of art since my school days and when I took early retirement 2 years ago I decided to try my hand at the LAC Drawing and Painting course to see if I could improve things.The…
Student Michael Masson has created a number of stunning paintings during the time he has been studying with the London Art College. Below is a lovely collection of paintings he completed whilst on the Painting and Drawing Diploma Course. Such…
I retired four years ago having spent the previous thirty five teaching in a Special School. The children I worked with learnt most successfully when information was presented in a visual form so I spent many hours adapting materials and…
Welcome to our latest art challenge all about ‘home’. Let us know what home means to you in picture form. You might like to paint or draw the outside of your house, perhaps there is a a special place inside…
Welcome to the results of this weekends art challenge where the theme was to paint or create artwork on the theme of Purple and Yellow. We have received some amazing pieces of artwork this week and such happy spring like…
Student Eva Chen has been creating some amazing pieces of artwork for her assignments on the Illustration course with tutor Steven Hersey. They are all so wonderfully laid out with text and we really hope that our students enjoy reading…
I have completed the colour pencil course, it was hard work but satisfying and enjoyable.I enjoyed drawing the variety of subjects and receiving constructive advice from my tutor, I feel my pictures have improved owing to my tutors advice and…
My name’s Anastasiia and I just finished my drawing and pencil course. I found the London Art College online when I was searching on purpose some drawing courses to become an art adventurer. The course for sure helped me to…
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 ‘Yellow and Purple’! We understand…
Welcome to this weeks results from the art challenge – Family. It stirred plenty of emotions this week and I think you will see from the images below we have some wonderful family paintings and drawings to view. Also some…
Art had finished for me when I left school. Now retired I have been lucky enough to travel and see some wonderful things. However, our last cruise in March 2019 went disastrously wrong off the coast of Norway. Having survived…
A big thank you to Monika Cilmi, my tutor on the coloured pencils course. I have finally finished my amazing journey. The support and encouragement she gave me has inspired me to book onto the illustrations course. Plus Monika gave…
I tried a lot of subjects in the Illustration Diploma Course. I think each topic is interesting, such as drawing comics based on text, creating picture books, or creating illustrations of your own choice of lyrics. In my opinion, the…
Sadly the well known and much loved illustrator Victor Ambrus passed away recently at the age of 85. Victor was a Hungarian-born British illustrator of history, folk tales, and animal story books. He was also well known for his appearances on the TV…
Welcome to our latest challenge and this weeks theme is ‘Family’. What does family mean to you? Try to convey this on paper or canvas – or digitally. In any form. Let us know why you have created the artwork…
Welcome to our weekend challenge results from the Alphabet Letter C Challenge. What a challenge! We have received a phenomenal amount of pieces of artwork and we really hope that you enjoy viewing them all below. Our feature images this…
Student Alyson Fairchild is working on our Beginners Drawing Course with tutor Steven Hersey. Steven was extremely impressed with Alyson’s artwork and so we have added some of her drawings below. We love her detailed pen and ink work especially….
Sue Harper is a new student to the London Art college and has recently enrolled on our Coloured Pencil Art Course. She has just completed her first set of artwork, a few of which you can see below. Tutor Monika…
Student Robyn Hoskins has created two amazing illustrations for her set 5 work for the Illustration Diploma Course. Tutor Steven Hersey was particularly impressed with them and asked if we could show them here on our blog. We were delighted…
Welcome to our Alphabet Challenge. Every month we will have a new letter of the alphabet and students can draw or paint anything as long as it is beginning with that letter. Students need to get creative with anything beginning…
Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge – Under the sea. What a colourful challenge this has turned out to be. We absolutely love all of the artwork created this weekend, so much work has gone into them,, everyone should…
Student Benjamin Magesh has just completed the Portrait Painting course with flying colours and passed with a distinction. We have added Benjamin’s final set of paintings below and we know that you are going to be hugely impressed with his…
At the beginning of lockdown in March 2020 my 94-year-old mother had come to live with me. I was looking for something that we could do together and came up with drawing and / or painting. Although my mother did…
Some images have come to light on Facebook regarding a student from 1954! Salvu Scerri signed up for our Press Drawing course and you can see a photo of him below, along with the letter and part of the course…