Watercolors by Jim Oberst Blog

Members of Brush Strokes art club donate original art to each new Habitat for Humanities home. It was my turn on Saturday, March 15. I do...

My opening reception last Friday was cancelled because the Fine Arts Center of Hot Springs closed due to bad weather. I am happy to announ...

Richard Stephens sponsored an exhibit for everyone who took his beginners watercolor course at the Garland County Library.  Richard has bee...

I am featured artist for the month of March at the Fine Arts Center of Hot Springs , 610A Central Avenue.  I will be exhibiting over 30 pain...

This week, I found out that my painting Lazy Afternoon was juried into the Mid-Southern Watercolorists 2008 Annual Exhibit .  This is a vig...

Because I won the Gold Award at the Mid-Southern Watercolorists 2007 Annual Exhibition, I was invited to present "How I Did It" at...

Join me at the second annual Brush Strokes Galleria, which will be held at Coronado Center in Hot Springs Village on Saturday, November 3, f...

I will be featured artist for the month of November at Lauray’s The Diamond Center, located at 402 Central Avenue in Hot Springs. There wil...

I just returned from a workshop in Corpus Christi, Texas with Ken Hosmer . Ken is known as a "colorist", and he taught a great dea...

I will be featured artist for the month of November at Lauray's The Diamond Center, located at 402 Central Avenue in Hot Springs. There ...

Yesterday evening I was awarded the First Place Purchase Award in the Watercolor category of the Diamond National Juried Exhibit for my pai...

John Keller and I will be featured artists at Mountain Valley Spring Company, 150 Central Avenue, Hot Springs, Arkansas, 71901, for the mont...

Until now, I had not considered taking commission work because of the likely constraints on the painting. However, when Marshall Riggan ap...

The Third Annual Diamond Exhibition will be held at the Fine Arts Center of Hot Springs from September 5 through October 2, with a receptio...

The Arkansas Governor’s Mansion Association is planning to publish an arts calendar to introduce the work of Arkansas artists. A panel of j...

The annual Brush Strokes competitive exhibition at Garland County Library opened on Saturday, June 30 with an afternoon reception. Unfortuna...

The annual Brush Strokes art club exhibition at Woodlands Auditorium in Hot Springs Village will be hanging during June, July and August. I ...

The Hot Springs Gallery Walk on Friday evening, June 1, was a success for me and Sheliah, the featured artists at Artists' Workshop Gall...

Sheliah Halderman and I will be featured artists at Artists Workshop Gallery for the month of June. Our kickoff is Friday evening, June 1, ...

Last week I traveled to Fort Worth, Texas to attend a 3-day watercolor workshop given by Sterling Edwards under the auspices of the Society...