Obi Kaufmann
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- Illustrator
- writer
- conservationist
- tattoo artist
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| Born | 1973 (age 52–53) Hollywood, California, U.S.[1] |
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| Education | University of California, Santa Barbara (BA) |
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Obi Kaufmann (born 1973) is an American naturalist, writer, and illustrator. He is the author of The California Field Atlas, a guide to the state's ecology and geography. The book features hundreds of his watercolor paintings of maps, wildlife, and other aspects of nature.
Kaufmann was born in Hollywood, California in 1973.[2][3] His father, William J. Kaufmann III, was an astrophysicist who served as director of the Griffith Observatory from 1970 to 1974, and also a writer of several books about physics.[4] His mother is a clinical psychologist.[5]
In 1978, his family moved from Southern California to Danville, California, a town in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.[6] While living there, Kaufmann spent an extensive amount of time exploring Mount Diablo State Park.[7]
Kaufmann studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He entered as a biology major but switched to visual arts after finding inspiration in wildlife painting and the rock art of the Chumash people.[5] While at UCSB, he took art classes under the painter Ciel Bergman.[8]
