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Gallery – Summer term 2021. Work by adults in Whetstone

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Congratulations to all our adult students for all of the wonderful artwork that was made during the summer term 2021. Thank you very much to everyone who sent in a piece of work to share. We love seeing which pieces … Continue reading

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Artwork produced over Zoom during the Spring Term 2021

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  We are very excited to be moving back into our studios for the start of the summer term on April 19th, but we must also take time to celebrate the great paintings by students at Insight School of Art, … Continue reading

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Lesson 4: Around the World

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For lesson 4 we asked students to travel the world during Coronavirus…… using Google Street View! It was also to be a challenge that included perspective. We made videos to explain perspective to beginners and discussed the work of artists … Continue reading

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Lesson 3: Self Portraits

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Lesson 3 of the summer term was all about Self Portraits. Students (from 6 years old to adults) initially learnt about proportions and positioning of the features, watercolour and acrylic technique, then made self portraits from a mirror representing how … Continue reading

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Q&A with Celestine Thomas

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Our third Q&A with Insight’s Studio Fridays artists is with abstract colourist Celestine Thomas, who many of you may also know as a teacher of art at Insight too. To see more of Celestine Thomas’s work, head over to the … Continue reading

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Mystery Challenge 3

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For Mystery Challenge 3, students were encouraged to make quick sketches of people from various sources and then combine them to create an imaginary scene. We sent them a video demonstration and suggested looking at artwork with figures by Joy … Continue reading

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A message from Insight’s brushes (or is it Lara?)

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A message from Insight teacher Matt Davies to all his young artists.

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Hi all, I hope you are keeping well! I know many of you were preparing for exams and I want to encourage you not to be too disheartened. You are incredibly smart and creative young people with extremely bright futures … Continue reading

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Insight teacher Rob Verrill: Recent work

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Much of my work involves found objects as I am an inveterate collector of discarded stuff I find on the streets in the normal course of life. The “stuff” I collect has to attract me or “speak” to me in … Continue reading

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