Month: November 2021
The Pastel Certificate course with the London Art College is the perfect way to become well acquainted with all things pastel. From conte sticks, pastel pencils, soft and hard pastels and oil pastels, this course introduces you to a range…
Student Andrew Yorston has been learning to draw on our Beginners Drawing Course. The following studies are form his second assignment. We love the varying techniques Andrew has been utilising, form his line and shade still life, to his heavily…
Some lovely images today by London Art College student Andrea Williamson from the Coloured Pencil Course. We have also added the reference photos Andrea used to work from for her Set two assignments. This might give our students an insight…
Student Cynthia Davidson recently completed our Landscape Diploma course with tutor Alan Dedman. The images below are from Cynthia’s final set. We have also added her collection of study images which Cynthia created in preparation for her final piece. We…
Welcome to the last weekend challenge of the year! We are getting ready for our Christmas countdown once again and we would love for you to get involved. We are looking for 32 pieces of fantastic artwork to be featured…
Welcome to our weekend challenge results, this week, all about the country of France. What amazing artwork we have received this week. So many beautiful pieces, we struggled to find our favourite as there were so many we wanted to…
Student Jane Naylor completed our Still Life Course and submitted some of the images below for her final assignment. Students can use a variety of mediums in the course and can specialise if they require. Jane’s paintings are absolutely wonderful,…
We thought that this was an excellent set of work to show on our blog to explain why its important to develop your work through sketches and studies to get to your final piece. Charito completed the first final piece…
Young artist Georgia Barrett created these amazing drawings whist working on our Drawing For Children course. We absolutely love them and can see that Georgia has a promising career ahead of herself! We hope you enjoy viewing them all too!…
Student Tess Burn has been studying on a number of our London Art College art courses and created these selection of pastel pieces for her assignments on our Pastel Painting course. We love the textures that Tess has created, particularly…
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 our latest art challenge where we asked our students to create a drawing or painting on the theme of ‘Anything that floats’. What amazing paintings and drawing we have received this week. It was so difficult to choose…
London Art College student Helen Acosta has completed her Pet Portrait Diploma Course with tutor Gayle Mason. We love her final painting and her flyer for her portraits is wonderful. We hope you enjoy viewing Helen’s artwork and reading about…
Here are some more amazing pieces of work by student Jenny Nutborne who is working on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. This exercise was for the ‘All is Dark’ challenge. Take a read of Jenny’s notes on her work…
Student Emmet O’Sullivan has just completed the Digital Illustration Course with tutor Monique Piscaer Bailey. We have added some of Emmet’s artwork below and hope you enjoy viewing them. If you have any interest in digital illustration or digital art,…
Student Justė Olsevičiūtė suggested we set a weekend challenge on the theme of ships. We loved that idea and felt we would broaden it a little to encompass any ‘vessel that floats’. So students could indeed paint a ship, a…
Welcome to our results for our weekend art challenge on the alphabet theme. This week our letter was ‘K’ and our students came up with a number of ideas including a variety of kingfishers, Koi, kiwi fruit, kittens, koalas and…
London Art College student Clifford Herbert has just completed our Illustration Diploma course and passed with a Distinction. Tutor Steve Hersey was over the moon with Cliffords work and said – Clifford has just completed his Illustration Diploma course and…
I have recently completed the Illustration Course at the London Art College with tutor Steven Hersey which I very much enjoyed. I have always loved the chaos and joy in Quentin Blake’s illustrations. I had the idea of reimagining the characters in Velazquez’s…
London Art College student Serap Keser has just completed the Botanical Painting Diploma Course with tutor Polly O’Leary. Serap’s artwork is absolutely amazing and you can see more of her work if you head over to Instagram and follow here…
Our final Alphabet challenge of the year! We hope that you have been enjoying them so far! This months Challenge is K! Draw or paint anything beginning with that letter. Its a pretty easy one this month, there are lots…
Welcome to our latest Weekend Art Challenge on the theme of Celebration! We love the artwork that has been created for this theme, especially our feature image this week by student Katja Felbel. The little characters Katja has bought to…
We have shown some of Cerys’s work before on our blog and are always impressed in each painting or drawing she has created. The following shows a selection from on of her assignments on the Pet Portraits Course and some…
Our short courses are an excellent way of dipping your toes into learning to draw or paint and getting a bit of experience and fun along the way. Student Brenda Smith has been experimenting with paint and colours on our…
Some beautiful and delicate drawings today by London Art College student Marianna Magi who created this for one of her assignments on the Botanical Painting Diploma Course. We love them all and hope that our readers are impressed too. If…