Richard Davis | sebastianriverartclu

Instructor: Richard Davis

Phone: 317-777-2741

Class Title: “A LITTLE ABOUT A LOT”

Medium: Watercolor

Level: Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced

Class Description: This is a relaxed, fun class about learning to improve your drawing and painting skills. Watch the demonstration then duplicate it keeping in mind that it’s only watercolor and paper, so be bold! Have fun!

My workshops will help improve drawing and painting skills while working primarily in watercolor. The subject matter changes from month to month.

Skill level isn’t always important, everyone can learn something!

Goal as a Teacher: I love the teaching experience. Teaching allows me to share the things I’ve learned over my career as a commercial and fine art artist. The bonus for me is that the more I teach and explain, the more I learn.

Supply List:

Watercolors of your choice
Watercolor palette that will hold a fair amount of water
Brushes: #2, 4, 6 watercolor brushes, Sable preferred.
Paper: 140# or 300#. Arches or Saunders Waterford is preferred
Number B4 pencil
Kneaded eraser
Container for water

Spray bottle for water

Paper towels

Artist’s Statement: There are two sides to me. I’m primarily a story teller with a paint brush. My first love is to paint people in places that perhaps you would like to be transported to. Life is such a mystery and curiosity. I hope my work lets you enter into some of it.

My inspiration can come from a simple gesture of a hand or light bouncing off an

inanimate object. It’s then that a single brush stroke brings on the excitement!

The other side of me is the whimsical side. The side where I’ll paint weird crazy birds

or flowers made up of bold loose splashes of color.

I enjoy both sides.

Bio/Education and Experience: After graduating from the Central Academy of Commercial Art in Cincinnati, Ohio, Richard began his career at a leading Indianapolis advertising agency where he worked for 16 years. Following that, a partner and he started their own advertising agency and found that 21 years had quickly passed with countless local and national design and illustration awards.

After retiring Richard designed and illustrated three children’s books for Eagle Creek Publications. One of those books won the award of “The Most Inspirational to Youth” from the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

In 2010 Richard retired to Dunedin, Florida but now resides in Melbourne. He paints in oil, watercolor, and pastel depending on the subject matter. His work has been shown and won awards in The Hoosier Salon in Indianapolis, Indiana, the SALI National Show, Greenwood, Indiana, the Dunedin Fine Art Center Member Exhibitions, Dunedin, Florida, the Brevard Watercolor Society, the North Brevard Art League and most recently the Florida Watercolor Society.

Richard attributes his fun, engaging, and sensitive concepts to being raised in a small town in southern Ohio where his childhood was much like a Norman Rockwell painting.