Learn to “see like an artist” by taking one of Paul Oman’s workshops. Quickly develop or strengthen your abilities in drawing, watercolor painting, acrylic painting, and oil painting.
Paul offers various workshops throughout the year both to gain a general understanding of foundational skills and to focus on particular subjects and approaches.
Skills you can learn or develop
- Finding SUBJECTS to paint
- Seeing and understanding VALUES
- Creating a strong COMPOSITION
- Understanding and maximizing the use of COLOR
- Drawing lines, shapes, relationships, values, & unifying the whole
- Painting LIGHT & SHADOW
- Painting LANDSCAPES, CITYSCAPES, SEASCAPES
- Learning how to create the illusion of atmospheric perspective & depth
- Painting various lighting situations (side, overhead, back, rim, front, low, reflected, nocturnal, artificial)
- Using abstraction to enhance representational
- Plein air (on location)
- How to simplify complex scenes to create focus & drama
These workshops become rich times of learning, experimenting, and meeting new friends with both similar and varied interests. Your eyes, mind, and heart will be opened as you see the world in a whole new way with Paul Oman.
Upcoming Painting Workshops
Feb 2027
04 February 2027
Watercolor Workshop – Painting the Winter Landscape, Feb. 4-5, 2027 – Hudson, WI
Paul Oman will be teaching a 2-day watercolor painting workshop on painting the winter landscape on Thursday-Friday, February 4-5 from 9:30a-2:30p both days. He will demonstrate at least one scene […]
Carpenter Nature Center – Hudson Wisconsin, 300 East Cove Road
Hudson, WI 54016 United States
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Apr 2027
03 April 2027
Watercolor Workshop for Central MN Watercolorists, St. Cloud
Paul Oman will teach a one-day workshop for the Central Minnesota Watercolorists organization on Saturday, April 3rd, 2027. Focus will be on painting the spring and summer Minnesota landscapes in […]
Central Minnesota Watercolorists, United States
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