Spare the Rod (that's an order!)

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Brilliant!

Posted by Bob Hill on Sat 05 Aug 15:44:20

Thanks very much Bob!

Posted by David Clark on Sat 05 Aug 15:45:10

Excellent painting David.

Posted by Stephen Hulse on Sat 05 Aug 16:44:52

Excellent painting, one of my teacher seemed to get a lot of pleasure out of his use of the cane .

Posted by Paul (Dixie) Dean on Sat 05 Aug 17:00:27

Superb! Fantastic detail!

Posted by Spencer Lambeth-Angell on Sat 05 Aug 17:24:21

Nice work David. We had a few cane-disciples amongst our teaching staff.

Posted by Jim Morris on Sat 05 Aug 20:02:11

Really good David, so much to interest the eye

Posted by Heather Love on Sun 06 Aug 07:25:19

A lot of nostalgic memories beautifully depicted David. Quite a challenge but you have succeeded brilliantly in this painting. I remember having very sore hands so frequently, as I was a bit of a loud mouth.

Posted by Carole Kelly on Sun 06 Aug 13:03:23

Hang on Studio Wall

05/08/2023

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My great great grandfather was a school teacher in the 1880s. I became a teacher in 1987 - thankfully the year corporal punishment was banned in England and Wales. This is inspired by a black and white photograph from the era. Learning by rote and the cane were very much the order of the day. No fun for the kids . . . or the teacher.

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David Clark

I've always drawn, but I never took Art as a subject at school, and I've never had any lessons or tuition. I've always doodled in idle moments, and sketched for my own amusement, but I never had the guts to try painting before 2015. I joined the Afan Nedd artists' group that summer, finally plucking…

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