# Lessons for Young Artists

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- Authors: [David Gentle](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-gentle)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2025-07-10

## Description

We are all artists as children, painting and drawing each day. Most of us stop when we get older – but David Gentleman kept going. For over ninety years he has been drawing, painting, engraving and printing, rising to become one of Britain’s best-known and most loved artists. His watercolours have filled galleries; his iconic wood cuts are emblazoned across posters, book jackets and train stations; his stamps have made their way to the furthest corners of the world. Here, the great, polymathic artist and craftsman shares what he has learned over the course of a lifetime of making and thinking about art. Unlike his contemporaries, Gentleman was never a teacher; his lessons are a sequence of unconventional prompts and reflections that will deepen how you think about art and the world around you. Sincere, practical and unpretentious, Gentleman’s insights are a breath of fresh air. Here are new ways to focus, notice the world and cultivate your own style; techniques to evolve your work, from playing with time to painting in bad weather; methods for getting the most out of mistakes and negative criticism; and, above all, reminders to return, always, to the simple delights of creativity.

## Editions

### Lessons for Young Artists

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-18-0206-568-8
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2026-10-15
- Language: en_GB

### Lessons for Young Artists

- Publisher: chroniclebooks
- ISBN: 978-17-9724-259-0
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2026-10-06
- Language: en_US

### Lessons for Young Artists

- Publisher: particular_books
- ISBN: 978-02-4169-281-3
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2025-07-10
- Language: en_GB

### Lessons for Young Artists

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-0206-569-5
- Published: 2025-07-10
- Language: en_GB