Charles Waldman paints with oils outdoors in the Sierras, the California foothills, along the Northern California coast, and in other parts of the West. He also teaches three to four workshops per year and participates in several invitational plein air events. 

Born in Oakland, California, and raised in nearby Lafayette, Waldman developed an early interest in art. However, this budding inclination took a back-seat to the completion of a medical degree from U.C. Davis.  Starting in 1978, and for the next 22 years, Dr. Waldman established a practice in Family Medicine and raised his family in Sonora, California, pursuing his painting, between his many commitments.  Eventually, his artistic drive was too compelling and in 1999, he closed his medical practice and began his pursuit of a full-time career as a fine artist.

In addition to teachers such as Clyde Aspevig and Ted Goerschner, Waldman credits the works of past masters like Edgar Payne and others among the early California landscape painters, as well as John Singer Sargent, and Spanish Impressionist Joaquin Sorolla, as artistic influences.

Along with fellow artist Ray Roberts, Waldman staged the first annual Foothill Plein Air event in the spring of 2000. Gil Dellinger invited Waldman to join the Sierra Painters, a renowned group of plein air painters who held an exhibition at the Haggin Museum (Stockton, CA) in 2001.  The group, and many more of the nation's top painters, created the Museum's 2004 Sea-to-Shining-Sea exhibition, and the 2006, Stockton on Canvas: Contemporary Artists Paint the Town. Waldman is an Artist Member of the California Art Club and most recently his work was included in their 96th Annual Gold Member Exhibition in Pasadena (CA). Waldman participated in the Laguna Plein Air Painters Invitational (CA) for the past four years.