Jamie Simmons has created a beautiful double page spread as part of the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. Read Jamie’s experiences of the process below… “I did individual studies of each bird I wanted to use, before I sketched them in on the page. I then started colouring in the birds, and then did the Continue Reading

Welcome to this weekend art challenge. We would like you to create a piece of unique art in any medium and of cats or kittens – or both! It can be a pure portrait style piece for our pet portrait artists, you could perhaps illustrate a story between two cats for our children’s illustration students, Continue Reading

Welcome to this weekend’s art challenge – Superheroes. The theme was a fantastic idea by our illustration tutor Steven Hersey! We have received some amazing paintings and we particularly like the watercolour by Vera Jaouadi which we have used as our feature. Scroll to the bottom of the page to view it in full. Very Continue Reading

We have two wonderful oil paintings today by student Abigail Winfield. One is a final painting and the other is a full preparatory study. We feel that they are absolutely wonderful and are thrilled to be able to show them here on our blog for student inspiration. Abigail said.. “I have no formal training in Continue Reading

London Art College student Elizabeth Kelly, has been creating some beautiful artwork on the Chinese Brush Painting Course with tutor Monika Cilmi. We have added three wonderful pieces by Elizabeth below. If you would like to have a go at Chinese Brush painting, hope over to our website and take a look at the course Continue Reading

Alex is completing the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course with tutor Paul Weaver….. I deliberately put together a similar collection of items for a still life painting that I had seen on LAC, and it was useful to have such different shapes and textures. Outside the window are trees, inside there is a wooden table, Continue Reading

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