{"id":2863,"date":"2013-10-25T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T06:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2021-10-20T07:08:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T07:08:16","slug":"winner-of-the-london-art-college-2013-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/2013\/10\/winner-of-the-london-art-college-2013-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner of the London Art college 2013 competition&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Margaret Orchard.\u00a0I am writing this having just learnt that I have won the LAC Competition for 2013. I am absolutely thrilled to have won and would like to congratulate Alexandra for her delightful depiction of her cat \u201cBoris\u201d which was awarded runner-up.\u00a0Looking at this year\u2019s entries, the standard was amazingly high.\u00a0It astonishes me that there is so much artistic talent about.<\/p>\n<p>I thought you might be interested to learn a little more about me and the inspiration behind my entry entitled \u201cPurple Moment\u201d.<br \/>\nMost of my art is self taught.\u00a0I love reading magazines about art and read factual art books like novels.\u00a0I have now accumulated quite a library!\u00a0My love of art comes from watching my mother produce the most beautiful pictures when I was young.\u00a0When I was ill she would sit on my bed and draw to keep me amused.\u00a0Hers was an exceptional talent and I have inherited her love of art.<\/p>\n<p>At school I studied art at A-level gaining an A-Grade for work in Life Drawing, Still Life and Composition.\u00a0I also studied art as a main subject at Teacher Training College but here my skills were more useful in helping me design posters, worksheets and games for teaching purposes rather than individual pictures. Once my two children arrived I had little time to draw so it wasn\u2019t until about five years ago that my love of art was rekindled, when I was given a set of paints as a present at Christmas.\u00a0I joined a local art group, which meets every week in my village hall and since then I have not looked back.\u00a0I love to learn new techniques and try them out myself.\u00a0This is when I discovered the London Art College. I am a reluctant driver so attending day courses any distance away was out of the question but the London Art College, with its superb selection of distance learning courses, has provided me with expert tuition from the comfort of my own home.\u00a0My first course was on Pet Portraits with Melanie Phillips.\u00a0I had previously shied away from pictures of animals but my daughter became involved in working with animals and bought an adorable rescue boxer dog and I found myself wanting to draw him whenever possible.\u00a0It was during working for one of the assignments for this course that I had to do one using coloured pencil. I really had no idea how versatile coloured pencil had become.\u00a0Realising that my work was lacking in techniques I enrolled on the coloured pencil course with Julie Douglas and now at long last I am able to add colour to my graphite drawing which is the medium I love the most.\u00a0I had not used coloured pencil since my school days and marvel at all the different techniques you can use with them whether dry or wet.<\/p>\n<p>If I had to choose my favourite subject it would be anything botanical.\u00a0Whilst visiting an Open Garden last year I was able to photograph one of my favourite flowers \u2013 the Iris.\u00a0I always carry a camera with me and take as many shots as possible from different angles.\u00a0Then I put them on the computer and crop them until I have the angle and size I want.\u00a0I usually have one copy in black &amp; white, enlarge areas where it is difficult to see all the detail and make a copy of the picture in pixels to give me a better idea of the colour ranges.\u00a0When I have all this information to hand I go about doing a thumbnail sketch of the design.\u00a0I have no idea exactly how long each piece takes but it could run in to weeks of work.\u00a0Because I enjoy what I am doing so much time is irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>Well done to all those who entered the 2013 competition.\u00a0I have thoroughly enjoyed browsing through the vast array of wonderful pictures.\u00a0Well done to Alexandra for her lovely picture of \u201cBoris\u201d.\u00a0Thank you to the London Art College for your guidance and inspiration and thank you to all of those who voted my picture as the winning entry.\u00a0I am delighted!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/lac-blog7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2864\" alt=\"lac-blog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/lac-blog7.jpg\" width=\"644\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/lac-blog7.jpg 644w, https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/lac-blog7-277x300.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Margaret Orchard.\u00a0I am writing this having just learnt that I have won the LAC Competition for 2013. 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