Keith Davis is an artist, illustrator, author, and nature educator, passionate about nature journaling and sustainability education. He has exhibited his nature art widely, and won the Best Multi Media Art Prize at the 2007, 24th annual Port Fairy-Belfast regional art show in Victoria for one of his pencil-watercolour nature paintings.
Keith has been drawing and painting nature for five decades, and completed a Diploma of Commercial Art in 1989. He has trained under acclaimed children's-book illustrator, Jane Tanner, and renowned botanical illustrator, Margaret Muffet. He has completed a Certificate of Natural History Illustration with the University of Newcastle, and has also completed the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Nature Journaling and Field Sketching course. His original hand-drawn pencil sketches, illustrate the book Seasons of the Far South, an educational book on the flora and fauna of southern Tasmania. He has credentials in art, education, science and ornithology, and lives at Dover in the Far South of Tasmania.
Since 2008, I have been using Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils for much of my hand-drawn nature artwork sketching and illustrating. I love the rich colours of these pencils and how well they blend together on 100% cotton art papers to accurately reproduce my natural history subjects in all their true-coloured glory. Coupled with my preferred medium for working on, the St Cuthberts Mill Saunders Waterford series fine-grained, cold-pressed classic watercolour papers, I achieve very satisfying results. Recently, I have been experimenting with other drawing tools and media for my artwork and nature journaling, including Prismacolor Premier coloured pencils, brush pens, gel pens and a range of toned paper sketchbooks.
