Welcome to the latest results of our weekend art challenge. A couple of weeks ago we set our students a challenge to take a photo of themselves in a mirror. You can see how the students got on here – Photo in a Mirror. So for this weekends art challenge we asked our students to Continue Reading

Danielle Kantola has just completed the Watercolour Diploma Course with tutor Ida Mitrani. We have includes some of Danielle’s artwork below along with a lovely testimonial too. We hope you find Danielle’s watercolours inspiring. I really enjoyed the course and loved everything I learnt from Ida. Thank you so much, now I move on to Continue Reading

List of priorities to focus on for this assignment Have a focal point Develop the painting in stages- darkening tone as you go Use tonal variation to show the contrast in tones Use tonal variation to suggest recession in the painting Build painting using ranges of complementary grey Create mood  Source picture was a photograph Continue Reading

I was flattered to be invited to contribute to the LCA blog and share some of my recent pieces of work, alongside some of my coursework. Inspired by TV, movies and comics, I’ve loved creating sci-fi and fantasy characters for as long as I can remember.  Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to illustrate Continue Reading

Welcome to our latest art challenge which is a continuation from last week. We would like you to paint or draw your photo from last weeks challenge. I hear you say, ‘What? We have to draw or paint our photo?’ Well, yes, but don’t panic! You can use it as a basis for your artwork. Continue Reading

Welcome to the results of our Photo in a Mirror art challenge! Wow! The results are absolutely incredible. We are thrilled not only to see our students, but also to see how creative they can be with their cameras! We love them all and thank you so much to everyone for being brave and taking Continue Reading

I recently started the Illustrating Children’s Diploma course with Maggy Roberts and submitted my first assignment about a week ago where I received very encouraging feedback from our tutor (“excellent work”). It was a very inspiring and bright exercise to do, I really enjoyed this first assignment. Fiona Van Brabandt

We would like to send Sabina Rahmanova our heartiest congratulations on recently passing her Drawing and Painting Diploma Course with a distinction. Congratulation Sabina! We have added some of Sabina’s artwork below for our students to be inspired by. We hope you like them as much as we do!

London Art College student Christine Emery has just completed the Botanical Art Coloured Pencil Course with flying colours. We have added two beautiful pieces which were created by Christine for her course below. Congratulations on passing! We wish you all the best with your future botanical artwork.

Welcome to our new weekend challenge – ‘photo in a mirror’. We are partnering with our lovely Photography tutor Rona Cox who set this challenge for her own students this week. We would love it if our students could take a photo of themselves in a mirror using their phone or camera. All of Rona’s Continue Reading

We hope that everyone had a lovely Easter, although it was probably a lot different for many people this year. The Easter theme definitely generated lots of lovely and happy illustrations and paintings. One of our favourites is the lovely baby duck below painted in watercolour by student Madhavi Yelnurkar Chopade. So happy and colourful! Continue Reading

Welcome to the beautiful artwork of student Anna Noel Storr who is studying on the Beginners Drawing Course with tutor Monica Cilmi. Monica said… The composition of Anna’s artwork is very simple but each drawing works extremely well. Her drawing technique is superb too. Congratulations to Anna on a wonderful first set of artwork!

The following has been written by our tutor Rona Cox for her photography students, however we thought that in general it would be good advice for all of our students on other courses as there are ‘ways and means’ of getting the perfect photo – or perfect scene for a painting or drawing. Read on Continue Reading

Student Olga Polyanska has created three stunning watercolours for a set of assignments for the Drawing & Painting Diploma course with tutor Paul Weaver. We absolutely love them and were thrilled when Paul asked for them to be shown here. Paul said…. Olga’s watercolours are excellent, very soft and atmospheric  and I thought they would Continue Reading

Tutor Monica Cilmi has a superb student called Julie Cook who is currently working on the Coloured Pencil Drawing Course. As you can see by viewing Julie’s work below the course is very varied in the subjects that you can work on. Julie has created drawings of animals, portraits and fruit and veg in the Continue Reading

Welcome to our weekend challenge. As it’s Good Friday and Easter weekend we thought it would be appropriate to have an Easter challenge for all of our students to enjoy. Ideas! You could paint or draw all of your Easter eggs and chocolate that you may have been given…or bought for yourself. You could perhaps Continue Reading

Welcome to our springtime art challenge. We have received some beautiful pieces of artwork this week for our challenge which has brightened everyones day and lifted the spirits of our students! The lovely happy colours used in the artwork below shines through and we really hope that everyone enjoys viewing them! We have a very Continue Reading

The Getty Museum is asking people to recreate artwork using random house objects. As self-isolation is becoming the new norm and people are getting bored, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles challenged their Twitter followers to recreate a work of art with objects (and people) in their home. Read more about it at Continue Reading

We have two stunning illustrations today by Emma Hasson who is currently working through the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma course with tutor Maggy Roberts. Maggy asked us to show Emma’s artwork on the blog as it is a wonderful answer to one of the briefs in the course. Emma said.. I found the ‘When all Continue Reading

Welcome to the beautiful step by step watercolour flower blossoms by student Maria Ei Zar. Maria’s painting style is so delicate, beautiful and fresh. We hope that you find her work inspiring! Maria said… I love this kind of flowers much because it has no smell, not royal, not a seasonal image but they try Continue Reading