Robert Tracy Schacht

So you want to know a little bit about me? Well, to put it simply, I'm just an average Joe trying to find my way in the world...and I love to create works of art through pencil and brush.

Born and raised in Tucson Arizona, I left home at 18, anxious to see the world and start my artistic journey. I made my way to the beautiful Northwestand enrolled in the Seattle Academy of Fine Art. Becoming an artist, for me, was not a divine intervention...I felt that God was occupied with other pressing matters at the time. It was during an exhibit of John Singer Sargent, at the Seattle Museum of Art, that my life's passion of creating high-quality, meaningful art was ignited. I have since studied at Scottsdale Artists' School, Palette & Chisel Art Academy, and Watts Atelier. I have also taught at Scottsdale Artists' School, the Phoenix Art Museum and Studio 1307. And I've painted with some of the most notable painters of our time and have been inspired by such greats as Antonio Manchini, JC Lyendecker and Drew Struden.

My art, like my life, is about persistence not perfection. I'm never happy with just one idea, but instead, I have a continual flow of ideas that allows me to create a wide variety of original work. I ask mysel...