Category: Student Artwork

We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our lovely students far and wide, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Wherever you will be spending the festive season, enjoy yourselves, relax and keep safe….

My weekend challenge, ‘Christmas’ Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving and of families united. Merry Christmas to all! We absolutely adore Bhawna’s painting of ‘Christmas’ and we hope that everyone has a wonderful Christmas…

We are in absolute awe of student Sally Studley’s artwork below. We love it, it’s so beautiful! We wish Sally and her family a very Merry Christmas and a safe New Year. Looking forward to seeing more artwork from Sally…

Merry Christmas! My latest Christmas drawing. I‘m enjoying seeing all the Christmassy pictures here and on Instagram. #weekendchallenge We are thrilled you are enjoying the christmas artwork Priscilla and the Christmas collage on Instagram. If our readers haven’t seen our…

A wonderful Robin by London Art College student Rosalind today. We wish Rosalind and her family a very happy an safe Christmas, from all of us here at the college.

We love this one from Audrey Quinton, wonderful watercolour and pen study. we hope everyone is nearly ready for Christmas!!

One year, as a young child, I collected 100 hazelnuts from the garden, and presented them to my Mum to help save some money at Christmas time. This is ‘Posting hazelnuts’.

…..what had never thought about before: Maybe Father Christmas is a rather cool guy? Who knows? No one has ever seen him…

LAST MONTH TO ENTER the Derwent Art Prize Artists from around the world have until 4 JANUARY 2022 to… ✨ Enter artworks created in any pencil, including colour, water soluble, pastel, graphite and charcoal pencils. You can enter up to…

We are far away from our home so I will send these cards to my mom and sister for Christmas this year.Watercolor on paper.

‘It’s almost Christmas again and I would like to wish HOPE to everyone! My snowman was painted in watercolour, pen ink and acrylics.” We love your snowman Josiene and would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas from all…

“I wanted to draw an image of the traditional way of communicating by post at Christmas.  In this digital world I think it would be sad for Christmas cards and letters to Santa by post disappearing for good.” We agree…

Some wonderful christmas cartoons today by Cartooning course student Alfred Reid. We love them and hope you do too!

“ Winter Fox “ I painted this Christmas card from my childhood memories. Red Fox in the snow reminds me Christmas is on the horizon. I have used acrylics on acrylic paper.

December challenge finally finished. Acrylic paints with white Posca for the highlights. White Posca is great for fine lines like cat’s whiskers on a dark background and can be purchased on amazon.

We love this scene by student Latha Bhaduri Prabakar, isn’t it wonderful! It will be featured on our Instagram collage soon too. Have you seen our instagram page yet? its pretty epic! Come over and follow us…. https://www.instagram.com/londonartcollege/

My little christmas gnome…..in watercolour and ink pen

Merry Christmas to everyone at London Art College. A few of my silly snowmen…. Lynne Bagnall We would like to wish Lynne a very Happy Christmas too, we love her snowman collection and hope that they make you all smile!

Weekend Challenge ‘What December Means to Me’… December means festive rush – definitely. This little elf is moving with the times, as you will see if you read his message board. But will the mouse move too? Merry Christmas!

Weekend Challenge: What December means to me – For me this time of year means remembering family and friends who celebrate Christmas or Chanukah. This is a double sided design. The design below is the Christmas tree, for this I’ve…

We love this painting by Patti-Ann and know that her cat is just about to pounce on that bauble and cause plenty of Christmas havoc! Well done Patti-Ann – superb painting! Have you created your Christmas painting for our blog…

Here is my rabbit Christmas painting. I used Saunders Waterford paper, watercolours. It is a very popular design at the Art and Craft Events, I go to, especially at Christmas. 

A handmade Christmas Angel drawn in coloured pencil by student Rosalind Spilling. We love it – its so beautiful! Well done Rosalind on a really delicate piece.

For me, Christmas is not just about celebrating and spending time with the family, it is also about long walks in nature. Watercolour landscape painting.

I made Chanukah cards this year for friends and drew a Dreidel, a game enjoyed by children at this time of year. It is a watercolour painting.

‘The first tree in the Greenwood.. it was the holly’ How can you have Christmas without holly? Holly has been associated with Christmas since medieval times. It represents so much: Evergreen – being always present Berries – a source of food (although…

IN THE BEGINNING…………………… Now, where did my Art inspiration come from?? Well, believe it or not, pumpkins! Pumpkins, you are saying!! Yes, pumpkins. I am an American, having lived in the UK for many years, since a youngster and being…

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 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…

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,…

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…

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…

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 lots of glowing pumpkins in…

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 my hand on the table…

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 grips with the depth of…

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 in your household, why not…

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 students who painted them. The…

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 the hits of the decade….

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 did. Aren’t her pieces wonderful!…

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. Wild Animals For this composition…

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 the largest exhibition @colourpenciluks ever…

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 wish him well in his…

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 or said in this regard. …

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 is called ‘Once Upon a…

This piece was one of the illustrations I produced for an early assignment in the Illustration course and is an illustration of a short poem by Lucy Maud Montgomery. This was the final illustration of the set and the poem…

I often visit The London Art College Facebook page and look at all the students’ excellent work, and fondly remember studying the Illustrating Children’s Book Course, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I passed with a merit in 2011. I can’t believe…

Our annual London Art College competition is now closed. All of the entries can be seen online on our dedicated entry page. Did you enter? Click the link below to go and see if you are there! If you have…

Jenny Nutbourne is currently working on the Illustrating Children’s Diploma Course with tutor Maggy Roberts. Jenny’s Fiery Fred project is shown below in full, from the initial concept through to the final piece. We love her thought process and the…

I had a lot of fun with this editorial exercise in the Illustration Course. We had to produce a quarter page and matching spot illustration for an article about chicken enrichment. I have chickens of my own so I really…

I’m Sarah a 13 yr old who had enrolled in the Beginners Drawing Course. So before joining the London art college course, I did like to draw in my free time, but this course developed a completely new interest in…

Send a clear and in focus photo or scan of your artwork via email to entries@londonartcollege.co.uk making sure that it is cropped to the actual artwork – ie not showing mounts / frames or backgrounds. Enter today!!

Jenny Nutbourne is currently working on the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma Course with tutor Maggy Roberts. Jenny’s artwork is not only incredible, but she has annotated her drawings which we felt would be really interesting for our students to read….

I decided to paint three citrus fruits together to give me an opportunity to explore a few different bright colours. I started with the lemon. I think I got the roundness and shape of the lemon ok. Of the three…

Student Ingrid Baron has completed the Drawing and Painting Diploma course with tutor Paul Weaver. Paul was delighted with Ingrid’s work and we have showcased a few of her pieces below. We love her woodland toadstool scene, it has lots…

My daughter introduced me to the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. She had already enrolled. She had written a novel and wanted to be able to illustrate it herself. She thought I might be interested. The pandemic offered the unexpected…

It was amazing to have chosen the Beginner‘s Painting Course. I would like to thank my teacher Monika Cilmi. I had been drawing almost all my life and did lettering for a while, but somehow wanted to dive into painting,…

Having completed my final assignment, I have looked back over the journey. There is a lot of useful information in the study units and I’ll continue to look back over the course material because I’m sure that I can continue…

I really don’t want to end the Pet Portraits Course! I enjoyed it so much. I felt a bit sad when submitting the final files. I enjoyed reading Gayle’s comments, it helps me to improve. The Ben and Jenny portrait…

A lovely selection of work today by student Lydia Weber who completed the Pastel Painting Course recently We love Lydia’s artwork, especially the landscape which is so full of life and vibrancy and we wish Lydia the best of luck…