A very imaginative and colourful piece today by student Lise Couture who submitted this for an exercise on the Drawing and Painting Diploma course. We love all of the bold colours and strong shapes of the buildings and windows, particularly the warm light inside the windows too. The deep dark background colours to set everything Continue Reading

Michael Ilsley completed and passed the coloured pencil drawing with flying colours . We have added some of his work below for students to view. We are particularly in awe of the squash and pumpkin drawing below, so many wonderful shapes, colours and contours that it really draws the eye in. The amount of detail Continue Reading

We all have some onions and garlic lurking in our kitchen somewhere. Whether it be onions in the bottom of our salad draw in the fridge or garlic in a very beautiful garlic pot adorning your kitchen. What ever you can find, we would love to see it! Draw it, paint it, sketch it! Both Continue Reading

Welcome to this week blog post all about the wonderful artwork from the art challenge all about reflections in a mirror. We have been sent a wide range of very creative pieces of art which i hope you all enjoy viewing below. Mila’s pear reflection pastel drawing is very impressive. Very cleverly called ‘Pearing into Continue Reading

We have three amazing cartoons today by student Veviene Wallace who is studying with John Byrne on the Cartooning Diploma Course. Anyone who is familiar with the London Art College and its tutors will immediately recognise the cartoon of John Byrne below. Veviene has captured him perfectly and we are sure that John was very Continue Reading

Yesterday was a red letter day when I received my Certificate from the London Art College.  After months of working with Polly O’Leary I was thrilled to see I had gained a distinction.   This was only made possible with her amazing input:  her thorough, detailed and helpful comments to each assessment and unending encouragement made Continue Reading

I’ve always wanted to draw and paint seriously, however, other life’s priorities always seemed to get in the way. That’s why I’m so pleased that I took the plunge and enrolled on the Painting and Drawing Course. I’m finding this course is really helping me to focus and it’s stretching my imagination and abilities, hopefully, Continue Reading

This weekends challenge is all about objects or things reflecting in a mirror. You can choose anything to set in front of your mirror, try to portray some of the background and surrounding area too. There will be a lot of things at play here from distortion to variations in colour. Also try to note Continue Reading

Welcome to this weeks Halloween Challenge. I hope that you aren’t too scared looking at the amazing artwork on offer this week. Particuarly Magdalena’s ink artwork – incredible!! Our students must have had a lot of fun completing this challenge. A great theme revealed on Halloween too! Readers must scroll to the bottom to view Continue Reading

We are absolutely thrilled and delighted to announce this years winner and runner up of our London Art College 2019 art competition. The winner is Claire D’Arcy and the runner up is Olga Polianska. We have added both pieces of artwork below along with some text written by each student. We are so pleased for Continue Reading

Three super pieces of art from Kathleen Kerr who has been working very har don the Landscape painting course with tutor Alan Dedman. Each painting below has a lovely natural feel. The colours Kathleen has mixed on her pallet, has created a sense of realism allowing the viewer to really feel that they are transported Continue Reading

Digital illustration student Emily Kent recently said she had struggled to complete the course when she got a bit stuck on the final assignments, but she had managed to work through it.  We asked if she could write a piece for our blog as we felt many of our students might find Emily’s story useful. Continue Reading

These two circular paintings are of different areas of the village of Cruden Bay.  Painting to this format immediately draws your eye into the picture and focuses on the main object of the painting.  With square/ rectangular formats you always wonder what is going on beyond the limits of the painting, to the side, below Continue Reading

Thank you to everyone who entered into our 2019 London Art College Art Competition. We had an amazing turn out this year and you can see all of the entries at the link below. It is accompanied by the amazing painting by Michael Masson, who was actually last years winner. We love this years entry Continue Reading

Welcome to our spookiest challenge of the year! Calling all illustrators, cartoonists and painters! Send us some of your spookiest and eeriest cartoons, spooky characters or your draw the most spooky still life set up you can! Have fun with this challenge and let your imagination run wild. Halloween Ideas!Perhaps you might like to start Continue Reading

Welcome to our Autumn leaves artwork challenge – and what a popular subject this one was! We have received so many amazing paintings of leaves, they are all simply stunning! It’s the right time of year for leaf drawing and painting thats for sure. Autumn is definitely upon us here in the UK with gloomy Continue Reading