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
April 8, 2021We 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
Posted in paintings | Tagged acrylic painting, adult education, art classes, artwork, landscape painting, North London, oil painting, painting, portrait painting, still life, watercolour painting, whetstone | Leave a commentLesson 4: Around the World
May 24, 2020For 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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May 15, 2020Lesson 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
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged acrylic, Insight School of Art, online art classes, painting, self portraits, watercoloour, whetstone | Leave a commentQ&A with Celestine Thomas
May 7, 2020Our 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
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged abstract artist, artist, Celestine Thomas, collage, colour, found objects, North London, recycling, Studio Fridays, whetstone | Leave a commentMystery Challenge 3
April 8, 2020For 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
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged artist, figure drawing, Insight School of Art, london, whetstone | Leave a commentA message from Insight teacher Matt Davies to all his young artists.
March 28, 2020Hi 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
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged artist, Insight School of Art, life drawing, Matt Davies, whetstone | Leave a commentInsight teacher Rob Verrill: Recent work
March 28, 2020Much 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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