Today’s art challenge covers a lot of ground. We would like you to celebrate in art form, the theme ‘celebration’! It could be anything from the birth of a child, a wedding or engagement, a
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Weekend Art Challenge – Halloween!
Welcome to our scary results for this weekends art challenge on the theme of Halloween!! Our feature image this week is by student Pauline Burke who created a very atmospheric and clever way of portraying
Continue ReadingJane Tivey
Student Jane Tivey has created two wonderful drawings of her hands for her pastel course assignment. Read about how Jane created the drawings below. Tonal Hand – I decided to try with the back of
Continue ReadingCarole Mallatratt
Coloured Pencil student Carole Mallatratt had created two wonderful drawings for her Coloured Pencil Course. The task was to set up a still life and then first draw it in graphite pencil to get to
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Young artist Alec Anderson (10 years and 9 months old at the time!) created the following drawings whilst studying our Drawing for Children Course 1. Aren’t they amazing! If you have a budding little artists
Continue ReadingCollection of Paintings
We have a wonderful collection of paintings to show today. All of our students have created incredible paintings below and we hope that you enjoy viewing them. Scroll down to see the artwork and the
Continue ReadingWeekend Art Challenge – Halloween 2021
This weekends art challenge is all about Halloween. It’s that time of year again! You can create a scary painting or drawing using your wild imaginations, or perhaps choose to do something a little more
Continue ReadingWeekend Art Challenge – Indoor Sports
What an absolutely fantastic idea for a challenge. Thank you to Latha Bhaduri Prabakar for suggesting the theme for us this week – Indoor Sports! Latha has created the artwork below of a hula hoop
Continue ReadingNeil Godden
Prior to this course, my experience in art other than a very brief sojourn in my twenties was at school during the 1970’s, where we were left to our own devices and radio 1 playing
Continue ReadingLesley Booth
Student Lesley Booth has completed the Coloured Pencil Diploma Course with tutor Monica Cilmi. Monika was thrilled with Lesley’s artwork and sent it to us for inclusion here on our blog. We are thrilled she
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I have thoroughly enjoyed the Colour Pencils Course and would certainly recommend it: there is so much more to colour pencils than I imagined and Monika has been so helpful and encouraging with her feedbacks.
Continue Reading2021 London Art College Art Competition
Welcome to the winners of this years 2021 London Art College Art Competition! The winner is student Shailaja Rathinavel and the runner up is Habimana Augustin. Congratulations to both students, a very well deserved win! Take a
Continue ReadingWeekend Art Challenge – Indoor Sports
Student Latha Bhaduri Prabakar suggested that we challenge our students to the theme of sports and this week we have narrowed it down to ‘indoor Sports’. This can cover a wide range of sports, including
Continue ReadingCalling all ART & FOOTBALL fans!
⚽️ Calling all ART & FOOTBALL fans! Exciting news:The Football Art Prize is CALLING FOR ENTRIES, giving artists the opportunity to… 🎨 Show their work to a distinguished panel of judges, including @davidjamesofficial @lottewubbenmoy @sachacraddock and Mark Wallinger. Take
Continue ReadingUKCPS 20th Anniversary Gala Exhibition
The UK Coloured Pencil Society’s 20th Anniversary Gala Exhibition. Thursday 14 to Sunday 24 October at Bargehouse @oxotowerwharf in London The exhibition will include 250 works by 150 UK and international artists – making it
Continue ReadingWeekend Art Challenge – Egypt
Welcome to this weekends art challenge, all about Egypt. We asked our students to research Egypt and find out about the country, their culture and landscape. We then asked them to create a piece of
Continue ReadingPhilip Hickin
Student Philip Hickin has been creating some fantastic artwork for the Graphic Design Art Diploma Course and has just passed the course with a well deserved Distinction. We would like to officially congratulate Philip and
Continue ReadingJane Zonnenberg
In the past 18 months a lot has been said about the benefits of doing art or simply being creative, and I’m sure I won’t be able to write anything that hasn’t already been written
Continue ReadingArchana Bahri Khanna
After finishing my Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma from London Art College, I have written and illustrated a few books and these are published at Apple Books online available for 51 countries to purchase. My latest book
Continue ReadingWeekend Art Challenge – Egypt
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
Continue ReadingWeekend Art Challenge – Letter J
Welcome to our most recent weekend art challenge where we invited our students to draw or paint something beginning with the letter J. Our feature image this week is by student Lowri Tolman who painted
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