Richard Davis
Oil | Watercolor | Pastel / Charcoal
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Biography
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, DFAC Member Exhibitions, Dunedin, Florida and the Brevard Watercolor Society and the North Brevard Art League in Florida.
Richard began drawing as a child and still has the watercolor of a blackbird sitting on a fence post that was created as a 9-year-old. He discovered at the age of 12 that a commercial artist could get paid to draw pictures! He’s been drawing and painting ever since. 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.