Month: May 2021
Student Sean Cocker has been working on the Botanical Coloured Pencil Course with tutor Ida Mitrani and these pieces are from Sean’s final set. Ida was delighted with Seas work, and gave him an excellent critique and help to send…
Welcome to our Colour Challenge. Every 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 ‘Blue and White’! These two…
Welcome to the Mermay results of this weeks art challenge. WOW! They are all absolutely wonderful and we are so thrilled to see them. So many variations in medium and style! Our feature image is by student Nina Colva who…
I have always been drawn to art, but for some odd reason it took until nearly three years ago for me to take the passion seriously. I would often find myself doodling small characters or monsters in the corner of…
London Art College student Debbie Davidge is currently working on our Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. Her artwork below is absolutely superb and Debbie explains both below…. The Evacuee Child, A4, is from an Assignment, done in Indian ink and…
Lynne has just completed the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course with a distinction, her drawings are particularly strong with excellent shading. Lynne carries this understanding of tone into her paintings as well. We hope that you enjoy viewing them all below.
Do you have a love of Manga and everything kawaii? Would you love to learn how to create your own original Chibi characters from scratch? If you are jumping in your seat with excitement, this is the course for you! Our…
What is Mermay? MerMay is a month-long celebration of creativity, community and above all… MERMAIDS.Every day in May people are drawing mermaids or subjects around the mermaid theme and so this week we thought it would be great to follow…
Welcome to our weekend art challenge results for our Peace and Quiet challenge. We have been very relaxed this week watching all of the lovely peaceful artwork appear on our facebook group and in our inbox. Some very beautiful and…
Rachel has just completed the course with a very well deserved distinction and tutor Paul Weaver was thrilled with all of the work she completed throughout the course. Rachel completed the Drawing and Painting diploma and we wish her the…
I felt this was a difficult assignment, except perhaps the Japanese technique where open lines and simplified shapes are used. Mastering ink painting is a long term process and feel I have a long way to go before I get…
We haven’t featured any botanical students here for a while and so today we have some amazing and very delicate artwork by student Georgine Somer. Each piece she has created is absolutely stunning and we hope that you enjoy viewing…
Welcome to this weeks challenge and it is ‘Oh so quiet’….! We would like you to try to capture the theme of peace and quiet. Not an easy challenge, so we are looking forward to seeing what you all come…
Welcome to our weekend art challenge results with things and subjects all beginning with the letter E! We have had some very Elegant Elephants…and some Eggcelent Eggs! So many stunning paintings and drawings this week. Well done especially to our…
Here are my first-ever attempts with acrylics! I loved the colour mixing and working with paints with a completely different texture to the water colours. I found it much easier to work with them with the water – using them…
After a lot of deliberation I managed to come up with this painting of the red pepper/ onion and white garlic. I am still using my favourite paper Fluid 100 hot press 140lb/300gsm 12” x 16” because I feel comfortable…
Student Helen Walton has just completed our Beginners Drawing Course and she created some really lovely drawings for her final set. We have also added some text from Helen too and we hope that students enjoy reading it. Hands –…
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. This month its the turn of ‘E’. Think…
Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge results. This week we asked our students to paint or draw anything on the theme of Ireland. We have received some amazing paintings this week, incredible in fact. Student Bhawna Sinha’s landscape artwork…
Student Peter Barnett completed these pieces of artwork for the Oil Painting Course tutored by Alan Dedman. Peters work is very varied and the course has allowed him to experiment with different painting techniques and subjects as you can see…
Wendy Harknet has submitted two wonderful paintings for her Botanical Coloured Pencil Course and we have added them below along with the text that goes along side. It explains how Wendy went about creating the artwork for her Hellebore and…
Danielle Kantola completed our Watercolour course and these paintings are from her last set. Daniel explains a little about them in her text below. We wish Danielle the very best of luck in her future watercolour painting, we are sure…