About David Welling

David Welling is a writer, artist, and graphic designer.

 

The arts have always been a motivating force — words and pictures. As an artist, he has worked in most every medium — oil, acrylic, pencil, pastel, and charcoal — but favored multimedia, primarily a combination of gouache, watercolor, and Prismacolor pencil. David has been a member of the Art Director's Club of Houston (ADCH), and served on the board for the Houston Society of Illustrators (HSI).

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As a writer, he has advanced with the technology, beginning with pen and notebook, before moving on to a small typewriter, IBM Selectric, then his first Mac. He currently writes on an iPad.

 

His lifelong interest in movies (and the places that show them) led to the writing of Cinema Houston, which was published by the University of Texas Press in 2007, and included sixteen years of research. He maintains a companion website, cinemahouston.net, along with a blog on film, theatres, and preservation. Cinema Houston is the recipient of the 2008 Julia Ideson Award from the Friends of the Texas Room, and the Society of Architectural Historians' 2009 Antoinette Forrester Downing Award.

 

Following The publication of Cinema Houston, David returned to fiction, developing a number of short stories and novels, and including a series based on the life of the fictitious film director F.O. Steiner, as well as a paranormal detective series. His anthology of seasonal stories, Midwinter Tales, was released in 2024.He is a member of the Houston Writers Guild and has been associated with the Writers’ League of Texas and the Houston Writers House.

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David was born in Houston, Texas and continues to live there in the hundred-degree summer heat with his wife, Cavalier Spaniel, and two cats. Harmony abounds.

His companion blog is davidwelling.wordpress.com. Look for him on social media.