About

Paul Oman

Paul Oman, a Signature Member of The National Watercolor Society, was born in the United States in the beautiful state of Wisconsin, where he currently resides with his wife and children. He had a strong interest in art early on in his life, inspired by the landscapes and nature surrounding him on the farm where he spent his childhood years.

At age 10, he began receiving personal instruction in acrylic, oil, and watercolor painting. During this same year, Paul was the Wisconsin elementary youth selected to present an original watercolor to the governor at the State Capitol for Youth Art Month, a significant milestone in his life. His passion for painting and drawing continued to grow. He studied drawing in college (along with science education, and later, divinity at seminary).

Receiving national and international recognition for his work in watercolor, painting world-wide as a live-audience mural and performance artist, as well as demonstrating, teaching, speaking, and consulting, Paul shares his joy of painting and its power to communicate with people of all ages.

Artist Vitae

Paul’s mission is to touch lives with life-changing emotion that comes through the sharing of his artistic gifts

Paul with school painting class

With his ‘Drawn To The Word’ Program, Paul strives to bring the Word to life before your eyes through the creative process of the visual arts.

Every opaque object that is devoid of color partakes of the color of that which is opposite to it, as happens with a white wall.

LEONARDO DA VINCI, ITALIAN

1452-1519

I can’t expect even my own art to provide all the answers - only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.

GRACE HARTIGAN, AMERICAN

1922-1908

I like to make an image that's so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.

ALEX KATZ, AMERICAN

BORN 1927

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE, AMERICAN

1887-1986

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

PABLO RUIZ Y PICASSO, SPANISH

1881-1973

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

PAUL KLEE, SWISS

1879-1940

You are lost the instant you know what the result will be.

JUAN GRIS, SPANISH

1887-1927

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

FERDINAND-VICTOR-EUGENE DELACROIX, FRENCH

1798-1863

When you lose simplicity, you lose drama.

ANDREW WYETH, AMERICAN

1917-2009

All colors are the friend of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

MARC CHAGALL, FRENCH (BORN RUSSIA)

1895-1985

The sun will not rise and set without my notice, and thanks.

WINSLOW HOMER, AMERICAN

1836-1910

I paint not by sight, but by faith. Faith gives you sight.

AMOS FERGUSON, BAHAMIAN

1920-2009

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