Monthly Archives: February 2021

For our fourth challenge, our students were asked to paint a figure using the Zorn palette. If partners and friends were not prepared to model! – students were able to paint a still life instead. This week’s challenge was about designing the whole. We had some great submissions!… By Valentina By Donna By Ester By […]

    We’ve loved seeing how creative our students have been during lockdown! For our third challenge, our students were asked to paint a portrait using Zorn’s palette. Thank you to everyone for your wonderful portraits. As always we had lots of great submissions.   This week Toby is our winner. As you’ll see from the below […]

  Students often ask how they can practice their portrait skills when away at home and if they should work from photographs. I firmly believe, that although photography has its place, the best use of your time, if a model is unavailable to you, is to paint eggs from life. We may want to go […]

We’ve loved seeing how creative our students have been during lockdown! For our third challenge, our students were asked to paint a portrait using Zorn’s palette. Thank you to everyone for your wonderful portraits. As always we had lots of great submissions!… By Howard By Oliver By Cecilia By Liz By Donna By Valentina By Graeme […]

For our second lockdown challenge, we asked our students to create a colour chart using the Zorn palette (yellow ochre, ivory black, vermilion/cadmium red light and titanium white) as well as a mini painting using the Zorn palette. We had some great submissions and we hope that everyone found it a very helpful little exercise! … After […]

The studios may be closed but our students are still buzzing with creativity! To keep everyone in the swing of things during lockdown Ann is setting a weekly challenge with prizes for each winner! For week one, the challenge was to draw or paint a still life where it is not the subject matter that […]

I reached out to LFAS to gain some work experience during a year out from University. I study Illustration Animation at Kingston School of Art which is a brilliantly open course, so my options following graduation aren’t at all limited. This meant I wanted to try out a number of different placements to ‘work out’ […]