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We have some wonderful artwork today, a collection of students work from the Drawing with Pens course tutored by Monika Cilmi. The students work below are Lynn Stuart James, Samuel Croyle, Anca Wicksman and you can see their names under each image. Well done to all students for creating some excellent pieces.
Welcome to a wonderful collection of artwork by student Gayathri G. She is currently completing the Illustration Diploma with tutor Steven Hersey. These are just a few of the pieces Gayathri submitted for her first and second assignment. Steven was absolutely thrilled with Gayathri’s submission and said… I have found Gayathri’s work to be quite Continue Reading
Welcome to this weekends artwork challenge. Its cuteness overload here! We would love for you to create a drawing or painting of a ‘Cute Animal’ similar to the photos you see below. You can use the photos or choose your own. Or maybe you have a cute pet and want to draw it from life! Continue Reading
Welcome to our weekend artwork with the theme – Cityscapes. We left the theme fairly open so that our students were able to add their own flare and creativity into the artwork. As you can see from looking at the amazing paintings and drawings below there are some wonderful ideas and cityscape renderings. We love Continue Reading
These illustrations are by James Hutton for his second assignment for the Illustration Diploma Course. Simply excellent. Some outstanding examples of illustration in both technique and concept. Incredible detail and worth taking time to ponder over the pictures. Steven Hersey
Sebastian’s sink city has been hard work for me, but in the same time I really enjoyed it. I began my work searching for inspiration on internet. There I found a very interesting blog, written by Charlotte Kaill, with detailed description of how she managed to achieve assignment 2. This has been very helpful to Continue Reading
When planning for “Fiery Fred”, I immediately wanted to portray a scene depicting a fairytale/country feel and took inspiration for style and colour palette from Alida Akers’ work. I wanted the colours to gradually become warmer as they move away from Fred. However, as I progressed, I became worried this had created too strong a Continue Reading
Welcome to this weekends Art Challenge. We thought we’d mix things up a bit this week and ask our students to paint, draw or illustrate a cityscape. This can be any city at any time of day or night, in any medium. Students can work from their own photos, their imagination, make a real cityscape…or Continue Reading
Welcome to the gallery of artwork for this weekends challenge, created by some very serene students! The pieces below are absolutely fantastic and we really hope that you all enjoy viewing them. So many different ideas for the theme this week – Serenity. A particular shout out to Walaa Al-jafari’s ballerina. Scroll down to view Continue Reading
Student Shubhangi Jain has completed the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course with tutor Alan Dedman. Alan requested for Shubhangi’s artwork to be added to the college blog and we were delighted to. We hope you find them inspiring.
Today we have some beautiful artwork form student Rebecca Hearson who has just submitted her first set of work for the Illustrating Children’s book Diploma Course. Maggy said… A lovely first submission from Rebecca, she has submitted some outstanding work. Maggy Roberts
Tutor Alan Dedman has Recently been invited to participate in the opening of an exhibition of African Art at Hidden Lane Gallery in Glasgow. Alan showing some of his work alongside African artists, meeting some of them and joining an ‘Art jam’ in Milngavie. You can read a blog post about Alan and his travels to Continue Reading
Paul Weaver has an article out in the latest issue of ‘The Artist’ magazine (April 2020) ’The Magic of Snow & Frost in Watercolour’ and we have added a painting by Paul Weaver which you can see in the magazine below. You can download and read ‘The Artist’ magazine with Paul’s article and paintings online at Continue Reading
This weekends art challenge is quite an open subject. We thought as we generated lots of stormy artwork last week we would calm things down with the theme of Serenity this week. Interpret it how you would like and we have added some photos below to perhaps give you some ideas. We are very much Continue Reading
What a beautiful array of artwork we have received for this weeks art challenge. The artwork below really does convey the theme of ‘Storms’ well and I hope that everyone enjoys viewing all of the pieces. A very wide selection of styles and ideas. To all who took part – each of you should be Continue Reading
Stunning illustration for our readers to view today. Diana Eastlake who is currently working with tutor Maggy Roberts on the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma course created this double page spread for one of her assignments. The bottle on the left hand side is the perfect place for the text to be printed in the book. Continue Reading
The following painting was completed by Oksana Lupych who has just completed our Oil Painting course. The image below is part of her final assignment and is the from the abstract section of course exercises. Oksana said… For the abstract work I use big size of mdf with acrylic ground to avoid any deformation and Continue Reading
A lovely collation of artwork today by Illustration student Eva Chen. Tutor Steven Hersey was thrilled with all of the pieces. He said to Eva.. “This first assignment is outstanding. I would like to congratulate you on your work. It is thrilling to see. I wish you well in future assignments.” Steven Hersey We hope Continue Reading
Here in the UK and in parts of Europe there have been lots of storms recently, this weekend we are being battered by Storm Dennis. We thought it would be a very apt challenge to create a piece of artwork under the title Storms. You can draw or paint anything that you feel encompasses the Continue Reading
Welcome to this weeks art challenge artwork! It is all about the eyes! We set students the task to either draw their own eyes in a mirror or draw or paint the eyes of friends and family members. If students were unable to work from life then of course working from photos was definitely allowed! Continue Reading