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Best known for her bovine renditions, with unique compositions and contemporary views, Denise has combined her love of animals and art in oil for the past 20 years. Denise's focus for the past several years has been cows because "Cows make me smile. I seriously can't look at one and hold back a smile. I don't just see an animal, I see a personality, and that is what I am working to present in my paintings of cows." In 2006 Denise received a commission from the California Milk Advisory Board to paint their famous Happy Cows of the Real California Milk campaign. This led to becoming "The Official Happy Cow Artist", as seen on their website. Her creative process begins with field work, taking reference photos. Cows being a favorite subject means "field work" can be taken literally, and involves careful stepping! With a signature "painterly realism" style Denise breathes life into her subjects, often bringing viewer comments of how "you could just reach out and touch them" and "I expect them to mooo".

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Tuesday, July 5

A new Texas Longhorn painting, and an Original Dog Drawing...

by therichartist on Tue 05 Jul 2005 04:58 PM PDT

For a while I was concentrating on drawings. This is a drawing I did in 2003.

This graphite on bristol drawing is 6 by 8 inches. For those who don't know, it's a Brittany, (formerly called Brittany Spaniel). This drawing is titled "The Shnoz", and is of my husband's hunting dog Spek. You can feel the joy she gets from running through the field in search of pheasant. My original dog drawings have been mostly hoarded by me, although I have sold many prints in the past. I have decided to let one go for a contest. This drawing is sold..

This 8 by 10 original oil painting, titled "Nice Rack", is of a texas longhorn cow that lives in Ramona, California, my favorite nearby farm-type area. I take photos of her every time I visit. Mostly she ignores me and continues to eat grass, so I wait patiently with my camera for her to favor me with a glance!
this painting is sold.

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