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About
Artist, YouTuber, and art educator also known online as SchaeferArt ad known for focusing on watercolor, plein air, and nature-inspired art along with his watercolor and drawing tutorials, plein-air painting, and thoughtful advice about creativity and long-term artistic growth which he shares on his YouTube channel and his Schaefer Fine Art website. His instructional content has helped him amass over 750,000 YouTube subscribers.
Before fame
He began drawing at a very young age after first picking up a pencil when he was around 4 or 5 years old. He drew constantly as a child and created comics and copied characters before gradually developing a deeper interest in visual art. He began painting seriously during his college years where a color and composition class introduced him to multiple mediums. He started experimenting with watercolor around 2009. He focused heavily on acrylic painting from 2011-2015 before he transitioned more fully into oil painting. He began sharing painting and instructional content on YouTube in 2011.
Trivia
He frequently paints outdoors from life which is practice that strongly influences his teaching style. He openly shares unfinished work and failed experiments to show that progress in art comes from repetition and not perfection. He has mentioned being inspired by the oil paintings of John Singer Sargent.
Family life
He is from the United States.
Associated with
He and Bob Ross are both known for being influential art educators and painters.
