Eric D. Greene

Five years ago…

Eric — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:47:07 +0000

On July 22, 2006, five years ago today, I went on a first date with the person who is now my wife, Arleen. We went to go see the movie Pirates of the Caribbean 2. It wasn’t an official “date”… we planned to meet with other coworkers for the movie, but as it turned out, [...]

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“Little Hawk” – Oil Pastels Art

Eric — Fri, 13 May 2011 01:46:27 +0000

My son, who is nearly 4 months old at the time of this post, is nicknamed “Little Hawk”. This piece is for him. This oil pastel art was done in mostly Sennelier Oil Pastels on a 9×12 sheet of Canson Mi-Tientes paper, I referenced a photo found on MorgueFile.com. Click to see the larger size [...]

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“Wet Lips” – Oil Pastel Realism

Eric — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:26:38 +0000

This oil pastels painting was done as an attempt at realism using oil pastels. I was inspired by looking through the magnificent artwork of Alyssa Monks, and I decided I wanted to push my artwork further than I have previously attempted. The piece was done on a white 8×10 Pastelbord (made by Ampersand), with a [...]

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Oil Pastel Art – A Zippo Lighter

Eric — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:03:53 +0000

This drawing is a zippo lighter in Oil Pastels. I did this on sand-colored Pastelbord, size 8×10. It has been mentioned that a reflection within the lighter might have been interesting, and I may eventually decide to do that. For now, I feel like I’ve moved on from this piece and am ready to work [...]

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Oil Pastels Flower – “Valentine Rose”

Eric — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:16:51 +0000

More Oil Pastel Flowers! This oil pastels piece was done on 8.5 x 11 Canson Mi Tientes colored paper (black). Sennelier oil pastels were used exclusively for it. This piece really all came together towards the end. It felt like it wasn’t going right until I got into the detail in the rose petals, and [...]

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Oil Pastels Drawing – “Lazy Sunday”

Eric — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:42:14 +0000

This oil pastels drawing was submitted to The Daily Paintworks Challenge last week. The challenge is now over but all the entries can be viewed here: Daily Paintworks Challenge. I used all Sennelier Oil Pastels for this piece. It is 6×8 inches on colored Canson Mi Tienes pastel paper. I had decided that the original [...]

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Oil Pastels – Homage to Diego Rivera

Eric — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:42:09 +0000

This Oil Pastels drawing was done in my Drawing 2 class. I enjoyed working on this one very much as I was able to try out a variety of oil pastel techniques. Oil pastel art is different from other drawing mediums. It isn’t quite like crayon or charcoal, yet it isn’t like painting with oils or [...]

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How to use Oil Pastels

Eric — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:34:46 +0000

Drawing in Oil Pastels is awesome! When drawing with oil pastels, you get many of the benefits of both painting in oil as well as drawing. You get to experience mixing and use of colors, like you would with painting, but you also don’t have to put all your drawing skills to the side in [...]

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