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Welcome to this weekends Art Challenge! With thanks to our Illustration tutor Steven Hersey and his suggestion, we are excited to announce the them for this challenge is Superheroes! We have added a literal translation of the theme below in photos, however you may wish to interpret it as you would like. Perhaps a family Continue Reading
Welcome to our artwork for this weekends art challenge where the theme is Winter! We knew that this subject would allow our students to be very creative and come up with a wide range of paintings and drawings for this challenge. We were not wrong. What a wonderful array of artwork. We especially love Christine Continue Reading
Student Federica Cesaroni has completed her second assignment in the Illustration Diploma Course. Tutor Steven Hersey said… “I think it is quite lovely, with sensitive and delicate drawing work done with charm and flair. I am constantly amazed at the skills that students display.” Congratulations on two beautiful pieces Federica, we are very much looking Continue Reading
We have collected all of the Christmas images that we didn’t manage to post in our Advent Calendar and hope you enjoy viewing them. We received so many amazing paintings, drawings and illustrations and cant thank our students enough! We are looking forward to our 2020 advent calendar already!
Susan Heller has passed with a well deserved Distinction on the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. Tutor Paul Weaver was thrilled with Susan’s artwork and we have added a collection for our readers to view below. Congratulations Susan, we wish you the best of luck with your future artwork!
Hi, my name is Lisa. I am from Australia. I have just started the ‘Children’s Book Illustration’ course tutored by Maggy Roberts. This is my first assignment submitted in December 2019. The aim was to create a lively illustration for the rhyme “row row row your boat”. I am very excited to have started this Continue Reading
This weeks challenge is quite an open theme – its anything to do with Winter. You could draw or paint all sorts of things from a still life of pine cones, to a wintery snow scene, skaters on an ice rink, birds flying over a frozen lake, paw prints in the snow, a rainy sky, Continue Reading
Welcome to our first art challenge of the New Year and what an amazing array of artwork we have been sent! Our theme this week was Teddy Bears and we love them all! So many different bears in different poses. Such a high standard of images and it really looks like everyone enjoyed creating them. Continue Reading
Lucy Wheeler has created an illustration of a dog on a wall with a little bird. One great way of learning how to create illustrations of animals is to practice drawing fairly realistic animals and give them a character. You can imagine them moving, running, jumping and prancing, which Lucy has done in the line Continue Reading
Student Ester Murphy completed these two pastel paintings whilst working on the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. We absolutely love the reflection of the small silver pot in the larger silver pot in the pastel with the light brown background. If you look closely, you will be able to see the fine lines and detail Continue Reading
A wonderful illustration today by London Art College Illustrating children’s book student Ethne Diian. So many things to see within the illustration, we hope you find it inspiring!
Welcome to our very first Art Challenge for 2020! We hope that you all had a lovely festive season and New Year and are ready to get back into the swing of things again with our art challenges. We thought we would start the year off with an easy one – Teddy Bears! I cant Continue Reading
Drawing and Painting student Elaine Marsh has created four wonderful paintings for one of her course assignments. We particularly like the first watercolour below with all of the tall buildings and shop fronts. Very colourful and the windows on each building have been painted beautifully. Lots of character and lovely detail. Well done Elaine, keep Continue Reading
Pet Portrait Diploma student Iona Findlay has created some absolutely stunning coloured pencil drawings for one of her sets of work on the course. The first few images below are exercises in practicing how to capture eyes, fur, noses and tongues in pencil, coloured pencil and pastel. The final drawing is a full head study Continue Reading
A stunning watercolour painting today by student Christine Towell. We have added a close up version along with the original below so our readers can see the lovely detail. Beautiful. Well done Christine!
A beautiful painting today by London Art College Student Mike Masson. A very beautiful and wintery scene.
A very thought provoking image today by student Sally Wilson.
We are continuing our festive artwork for the rest of December. Today we have a fabulous painting by Shamina Chowdhury called ‘Winter in Paris’. We hope that everyone is enjoying the festivities!!
Happy Christmas! Two wonderful illustrations today by student Priscilla Hocking. Congratulations for being chosen for Christmas day! We would like to take this opportunity to send our students very best wishes for the festive season, from us all here at the London Art College. We hope that you are having a wonderful time!
Its Christmas Eve!! We hope that your stockings are hung up over your fireplace and the presents are wrapped! Merry Christmas Eve from all at the London Art College. Thank you today to Iryna Labunska for a fantastic festive illustration today!