Month: August 2021
Michelle Emmerson is working towards completing her diploma in Pet Portraits and has created some absolutely wonderful paintings and pastels which we have showcased below. Her work is stunning, the detail within the horse is superb making it very realistic…
Natalia Nesterenko created these paintings while studying on our Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. We love the bold, bright colours Natalia has used and has created movement and flow in her paintings with her brush strokes. Her strong drawing skills…
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 the results of the latest art challenge where we set out students the task of creating a painting or coloured drawing using only greens. We had some amazing feedback about this challenge on our facebook group. Green seems…
For the animal exercise on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course I chose a fox as they are one of my favourite animals. First I filled an A4 page of quick sketches of foxes walking, then using those as a…
This was my favourite of the three exercises in this set. I was really wary to start with, so I did a graphite version first, so get a feel for the shapes and shadows, and I found that to be…
Student Kasey Medina is working towards completing our Watercolour Diploma Course with tutor Ida Mitrani. She has created three wonderful paintings for one of her assignments. We love Kasey’s wet in wet washes, especially the blue sky in the day…
Welcome to our Colour Challenge. This month the challenge is to paint or draw anything with two shades of green and everything else green in between! Sounds easy? We understand that there can be other minor colours within the artwork,…
Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge where we set our students the task of painting with watercolour. They could paint any subject or object, just as long as they splashed paint on paper and had fun. We have received…
These paintings by Monika Baum are from the final assignments for the Botanical Coloured Pencil course tutored by Ida Mitrani. Monika’s artwork is stunning and we love the Chillis in particular. They are so striking don’t you think? “I chose…
I am a self taught artist and want to become a full-time drawing teacher. Thanks to London Art College for offering such a wonderful course which is designed to help all people including some one like me who had no…
I’m doing the drawing and painting course and loving every minute of it. The first three pictures are from unit 3 of my course all concentrating on tonal shading. I loved learning all about this aspect of art and its…
Student Justė Olsevičiūtė has suggested that we challenged students to use one specific medium for a weekend challenge. So this weekend we would like students to only use watercolour. The theme can be anything you would like to paint, however…
Welcome to the results of our latest weekend art challenge. This week we asked our students to come up with a piece of art on a subject or object beginning with the letter H. Our feature image today is by…
We have two wonderful coloured pencil pieces today by student Catherine Verdoene who is studying Botanical Coloured pencil course with tutor Ida Mitrani. Ida was thrilled with Catherine’s artwork and we all agree! It’s beautifully delicate and we are are…
Student Jane Zonneberg has submitted her second assignment for the Illustration Course. Tutor Steven Hersey was absolutely delighted with her artwork and we are thrilled to be able to show it here on our blog today. We hope that our…
We have some lovely work by students who are studying the Graphic Design Art course with tutor Vanessa Weaver. This first piece is by Philip Hickin who submitted his proposal for a book jacket. He has used complementary colours to…
This months Alphabet Challenge is H! We challenge our students to draw or paint anything beginning with that letter. Its a pretty easy one this month, there are lots of choices including hedgehogs, horses, hens, helicopters, hearts, houses, hoover, hairbrush,…
STILL LIFE I found this still life on Pixabay and thought that it would be a challenge to achieve the texture of the fur , as it was very different to an animal fur. There were also lots of values ,…
Welcome to today’s blog post which shows the wonderful artwork by student Hu Zete who has just completed the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course with a Distinction. We wish him the best of luck with his future drawings and paintings…
I selected four different works for the final set on the Chinese brush painting course, although I made many others. This time the most difficult part was to obtain a fish whose body actually looks to fluidly swim in the…