David’s Blog

At my neighbours’ get-together on Christmas Day, with the guests well into their third mimosas of the morning, the conversation…

  Rather than lie still or recline, as models often do at traditional, art school ateliers, the life model walked…

I’d stacked all the tables and chairs, loaded the car with my art stuff, driven home and just put the…

“Yesterday evening Mrs. Arundel insisted on my going to the window, and looking at the glorious sky, as she called…

“Courage is knowing it might hurt and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same.”  – Jeremy Goldberg To enter an…

My new course on watercolours begins next week. Titled, ‘Watercolour Essentials,’ it’s going to cover all the things you really…

At the life class on a dull day, a couple of weeks ago, I was struck by the way the…

The last six lessons of my online course, Watercolour A to Z, began with the letter U and that fundamental…

  ‘With an apple, I shall astonish Paris.’ Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) I received an email with a link to a…

You may have heard of the Pitmen Painters. In 2007, Lee Hall’s play made them quite famous, both in the…