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Brandon Schaefer

Once or twice a month, I send out my newsletter with ideas, tips, tools, and insights gained relating to creativity, life, art, inspiration, and exploration. Check it out, it’s free :) Nothing to lose.

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3 Things to Help Improve Your Paintings

3 Things to Help Improve Your Paintings Hey, how's it going? My main focus lately has been working on watercolor paintings and improving the quality of my paintings. As I've been going through this process, I've had to think a lot about how to improve and what is necessary in order to do it. Here's some things you can focus on which can help to improve the quality of your paintings in long run: Sketching Drawing and sketching more will help you to be able to render your paintings more...

9 days ago • 3 min read

New Watercolor Paintings Hey there, I hope you're doing well :) Let's talk about March. March was a month full of focus and painting for me. I was somehow able to create 58 paintings - almost 2 per day. But not all of them were good, that's for sure. I haven't shared any of my new paintings yet with anyone, so I thought I'd share some of them here first with my newsletter readers. These are my top 10 favorites from all the paintings I created. I'll share some close-ups in a minute so you can...

about 1 month ago • 2 min read

Exploring Gouache & More Thank you to everyone who responded to my email last week and shared your thoughts and experiences. I was quite surprised to see so many responses, so thank you for that. It's always good to know I'm not alone in this madness of art creation :) I have a lot to share with you this week, I hope you won't mind. To start with, I've been exploring with gouache a tiny bit more and I've decided to try some master copies (as an exercise) and also create some color charts to...

2 months ago • 1 min read

The Art of Overthinking February has been a little crazy for me so far. I’m not sure how it happened but I began thinking a lot about my art and what I actually want to create (and how I want to create it). I don’t know why it’s so difficult for me to figure out. Or why I seem to overthink it all. Gouache Painting from 2019 I have paintings that I want to create, but I feel like I won’t be able to do them with watercolors. Maybe I’m wrong, maybe I’m right. I don’t know. It’s something I'm...

3 months ago • 2 min read

The Watercolors are Back! This past week, I finally did a watercolor sketch on one of my livestreams.Plan on doing more soon, this one was just a warm up and getting back into it. Village of Kundasang, Malaysia (Mt. Kinabalu in the background) I've been working this weekend to make a better painting setup for my livestreams, so that I can paint standing up - how I naturally would paint. Can't wait to try it out soon and see how it goes. For now, I did this recent sketch of some village houses...

3 months ago • 1 min read

January Recap Hello 🙂 It's finally the weekend again. Feels good.Hope you're doing well and doing something you enjoy. It's already almost the end of January and by now everyone has already forgotten the goals and plans they set during the New Year, haha.Do you feel like that?I'll share with you a bit about my January so far.. Cool photo of the moon I took :) In the beginning, I set a few focuses for this year and this time, I tried to keep things super simple (because it's too easy for me to...

3 months ago • 2 min read

A Week of Cat Sketches Hey there, it’s been a fun week of making art. Hope you’re doing well and staying warm (or cool depending on your location haha). This past week was a productive one and I did a lot of cat sketches again. Still learning a lot when it comes to drawing them. So much to learn. A recent sunset, thought you might like it :) I’ll share with you a couple of my favorite sketches from this week, but to be honest, I did so many that I’m happy with. Most of them were drawn under...

4 months ago • 1 min read

Art from This Past Week Hello, hope you're doing well :)I did a lot of drawing and livestreaming this past week and wanted to share with you some of the highlights and sketches I created. Livestreams I did 4 livestreams this past week, here they are in case you want to watch the replay of any of them. They were a lot of fun and I did a variety of drawings, sketches, and challenges: Sketching Cats in My Sketchbook #01 Sketching House Cats with Pencils #02 2 Mins ONLY Per Sketch - Drawing Cats...

4 months ago • 1 min read

2023 Recap Hey there, how's it going? Finally a new year, so I wanted to catch up with you again. I wanted to share with you a short list of some of the most valuable content I created last year. Some of my favorite sketches from 2023. Some Cool Stuff from 2023 Here's some content I made last year in 2023. Hope you enjoy some of it :) Reply to this email and let me know what was most valuable to you. I'd love to hear from you. YouTube Videos A Sketching Exercise to Overcome the Fear of...

4 months ago • 1 min read

List of My Favorite Art Materials Hello again, I hope you've been doing well and staying warm (if you're in the northern hemisphere like me haha). Materials are a big part of the art creation process and today I'll share with you a few of my favorite materials I've been using for years for drawing & painting. Just a disclaimer: I'm not sponsored by any of these products and these are my own opinions & thoughts from my own experiences. Some of the links are Amazon affiliate links, which I get...

5 months ago • 3 min read
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