Month: June 2022

Weekend Art Challenge – Your Favoruite Objects

Welcome to this weekends art challenge where we asked our students to think about an object that means a lot to them and try to draw or paint it. It’s been a really lovely challenge as it has generated some…

Tess Burn

Amazing paintings today by London Art College student Tess Burn, who studied the Beginners Painting Short Course with us. Isn’t her work fantastic! Especially the Apples in the featured image above and the jug, cup and egg cup still life…

Anton McLennan

London Art College student Anton McLennan completed our Beginners Drawing Course successfully. Anton’s artwork and drawing skills developed well during the course and tutor Steven Hersey was thrilled with his drawings. We have added a selection below, his pen and…

Anne Porteous

As someone who has not attempted any form of art work including drawing since I left school many years ago my main goal is to achieve the confidence to pick up a pencil and enjoy drawing. This course was a…

Weekend Art Challenge – Your Favourite Objects

Welcome to our latest art challenge where we would like to to choose a favourite object of yours and draw or paint it. It doesn’t have to be a single object, it could be a collection of objects. We have…

Weekend Art Challenge – Your Work Space

Welcome to our latest art challenge, this was a bit of a different challenge in that we asked our students to draw or take photos of their work areas. It could be created in any format, just as long as…

Carole Mallatratt

I chose the view out of the living-room window as it seemed to lend itself well to the task of capturing both inside and outside the room.  I really enjoyed this very much and it was on this task that…

Cerys Rees

Cerys Reese has completed the Pet Portrait Diploma Course and the images below are from her final set. Cerys said on submission… I have set up a Facebook page and have entered the Towi Artists trail where my work will…

Pete Newman

I’d been thinking about getting back into art for a while, having done very little since I was at school (30+ years ago), and lockdown seemed like a good reason to have a go again. I’m very pleased that I…

Weekend Art Challenge – Show your Workspace

We would love to see where you are all being creative! Perhaps you work on your kitchen table, you have a space in your dining room, or have converted a spare room in your home. You might even be lucky…

Weekend Art Challenge – Zebras!

Welcome to our very stripy weekend art challenge all about Zebras! Our featured image this week is by student Jeff West and we love it! Lots of bright colours and stripes, fantastic character…a zebra that we would all like to…

Satoko Handa

Here are two beautiful paintings in watercolour by student Satoko Handa who is studying our Botanical Painting Diploma Course.

Cheryl Day

These wonderful illustrations are by London Art College student Cheryl Day on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. They are all from the Creepy assignment, which we think are great. She has enclosed a piece which shows white pastel on…

Carole Mallatratt

We have received some wonderful feedback for tutor Monica Cilmi from her student Carole Malltratt. We have added some of Carole’s artwork below from her third submission. Carole said… Thank you for your feedback on my last set of work,…

Weekend Art Challenge – Zebras

Welcome to our latest art challenge and this week we are all about the stripes! Zebra stripes to be exact! We would love for you to draw or paint a zebra.. or a herd of Zebras! The choice is yours!…

Weekend Art Challenge – Platinum Jubilee

Welcome to our very special weekend art challenge all about the queens Platinum Jubilee. We hope that wherever you were celebrating, you did so in style! Our students this week excelled at their paintings and drawings. Our featured image is…

Nyangoma Borg

Nyangoma Borg achieved distinction for her digital illustration course. Here are her final three artworks for assignment 6 to show you her incredible Vector skills. The first five assignments are created using Gimp, (Bitmap) the last is done in Inkscape. This…

Chiara Massimiani

Chiara has submitted this illustration for assignment 3. It’s a brilliant solution to this brief, great composition and a lovely expression on the face of young Fred the dragon. Maggy Roberts – Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course

Jane Germain

So very many thanks for your feedback on my 3rd course submission – you really are very kind and I am so enjoying your Drawing with Pens Course and am so grateful that it has opened my eyes to so…

Weekend Art Challenge – Queen’s Jubilee

There will be year-long Platinum Jubilee celebrations throughout the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth and around the world as communities come together to celebrate The Queen’s historic reign. On 6th February this year Her Majesty The Queen became the first British Monarch…

Weekend Art Challenge – National Biscuit Day

Welcome to our new art challenge results for this week and it’s all about biscuits (cookies!) It was National Biscuit day on the 29th of May so our students celebrated by creating a painting or drawing on the theme! Our…

Alan Biller

Alan Biller has completed the Drawing and Painting course with a well deserved Distinction, a very diligent and thorough student, I’m actually sorry that he’s finished! Paul Weaver – Tutor for the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course