Eileen Bosic
Eileen currently enjoys creating oil pastel paintings in the northern part of Illinois, just west of Chicago in DeKalb. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio where her passion for art began as a child, she would take two buses to reach the Cleveland Institute of Art during the summer months to study.
Her passion for art continues today. She has studied at Kishwaukee College, Northern Illinois University and currently is a member of the Fine Line Creative Arts Center in St. Charles Illinois, where she regularly paints with a group of oil pastel painters who study with OPS Signature member, George Shipperley.
Before she found oil pastels, Eileen began painting with oil paint and later transitioned to acrylic paint. But because oil pastels have given her the freedom and a creative spirit that she has never experienced before with other painting mediums, she is now painting exclusively in oil pastel, and for the last four years has enjoyed the supportive and encouraging class environment needed to explore such a forgiving, exciting and challenging medium.
Most of Eileen’s paintings are the subjects of landscape and still life, and often include barns that she finds in and around the DeKalb area. Her unique color interpretations are developed in the studio from the use of Holbein and Sennelier oil pastels, used in conjunction with Winsor Newton Liquin to create a deep colored underpainting which is then developed with many layers of oil pastel from dark to light.
The personal statement evolves from Eileen’s selection of an arbitrary color palette, and the use of scraping techniques in order to create implied forms and sensuous textures. Finally, Eileen often uses the side of a lighter oil pastel stick to apply a light delicate skimming of color designed to create a harmonious blending of all the elements.
To complete and protect the delicate surface of the painting, she ensures the painting is matted and framed with museum quality materials and Eileen often enjoys exhibiting and selling many of her completed paintings.
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