Month: June 2021
Student Carole Mallatratt has completed the Coloured Pencil Course and you can see her final artwork and below along with the text about the images too. We would like to wish Carole all the best for her future drawings and…
Student Rachel Malpass has submitted her final set of work for the Scifi and Fantasy course. We absolutely love the these and characters she has created and you can read all about them in the text by Rachel below. “I…
As a warm-up challenge for my final Watercolour Course Assignment I decided to re-do the paintings that were, in my view, a milestone/watershed moment in this year’s watercolour journey. These being the Mushrooms from assignment #3 and Braye Bay beach…
Student Beckie Andrews has chosen this weeks theme for our weekend challenge. Magical or Mythical Creatures! We have scoured the internet and have only come up with one photo of a unicorn pictured below. So we feel that students are…
Welcome to the results of our latest weekend art challenge where we asked our students to create artwork only using sepia colours. This was a pretty challenging, challenge! It’s not easy to create artwork using only brown tones, whilst still…
The following pastel painting was the final piece created by student Dianne Pike for her Pet Portrait Diploma Course. Dianne wrote the following about her artwork and also a thank you to Gayle for helping her during the course. We…
Student Susan Cardozo is working on the Still Life Drawing and Painting Course with tutor Alan Dedman. Two very interesting paintings Susan created were of her shed tools, one in daylight and one in moonlight. Different lighting and different colours…
Mari-Ann has just completed the course with a DISTINCTION. She worked diligently through the course and produced some sensitive work, her pencil studies are particularly good. Tutor Paul Weaver NovemberFor this picture I sat down and used Daniel Smith watercolors to…
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 ‘Sepia’! If you are unsure…
Welcome to our weekend art challenge where we asked our students to create a painting, drawing or collage on the theme of water sports! We have received some spectacular artwork this week along with such happy and playful pieces too….
Jane Tivey created this fantastic drawing of fruit for one of her exercises on the Pastel Painting course. Jane explains about the artwork below, we hope that our students find it informative and helpful. I chose to do fruit for…
I am a fine artist who paints in oils. I chose to have no formal art college education but I studied Art History at the School of Oriental and African studies, University of London. It was during this time when…
I have a passion for art and was looking for a structured course to help me learn. The pandemic presented an opportunity for me to enroll and study at LAC. LAC’s course helped me to study and think. The study…
Student Oksana Lupych has created her final set of work for the oil painting course and we have added a selection fo paintings below for our students to view. Oksana has explained a little about her paintings and also a…
Our latest challenge was devised by student Latha Bhaduri Prabakar and we loved the idea of a sports theme for our weekend challenge. To make it a little more challenging, we have narrowed it down a little more to Water…
Welcome to the results for this weekend art challenge. So many wonderful pieces of artwork and so many variations on the theme. Our featured image this week is by Student Eve Warren – we love the idea of turning Fingerprints…
The old barn was part of my third assignment for the coloured pencil course. This was my choice for a building which I felt would also demonstrate perspective, the sky also was a challenge but once started I had to…
Set 3 Assignments- Coloured Pencil Course – written by student Jennifer Parry Portrait – I decided to try pastelmat for this piece and even though I am not pleased with the outcome, I am really pleased with the amount I…
Every month we have an Alphabet challenge and this month it is the turn of letter ‘F’. Students are challenged to draw or paint anything, as long as it begins with the letter F.. Why not try to illustrate a…
Welcome to this weeks art challenge where we set our students the task of creating a painting or drawing of any subject using only the colours ‘Blue and White. Perhaps it sounds a simple challenge however once you start, it’s…
Portrait Painting student Yulia Kerme has completed her set 3 assignments and we wanted to include a few of her paintings here for everyone to see. They are absolutely beautiful and we love to see the in progress style photos…
Student Daniel Hall has been creating some amazing work on the Illustration Diploma course and we have added a few of his pieces below. We love the chickens especially! We would like to wish Daniel all the best for his…