|
|||||||
|
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".
Follow me on Twitter Join me on Facebook Contact Denise
Questions, Comments?
This Month
Month Archive
|
FFA Painting by Denise Rich
The Future Farmers of America
Alumni have a silent auction fundraiser and asked if I would be willing
to donate a work for it. I thought it would be good for them and
good for me as well, so I said yes. This led to my taking photos
of the FFA students at the Del Mar Fair showing their calves, hoping I
would get something that would make a good composition for their
painting. Of about three that I will be painting eventually, this
is the first and I am very pleased with it, I hope all of the FFA
Alumni who are attending the event will be bidding on it and that it
raises a lot of money for the kids.
 "Blue Ribbon" 8 by 10 inches oil on masonite board When I was watching these kids show their animals I kept thinking what it would be like when after having raised them up from little babies they would be sending them off to market very soon, and all that's left is the blue ribbon. I'm sure it is a lot of mixed emotion, and somehow this composition captured that for me. If you are an FFA alumni or student and are interested in having a print of this painting, email me.
Comments
Re: FFA Painting by Denise Rich
by
Anonymous
on Mon 10 Oct 2005 06:25 PM PDT | Permanent Link
Being in FFA in high school and showing cattle, just thought I would leave a comment and tell you how much I adore this painting. You did a wonderful job. Oh and by the way, yes it is very very difficult to get rid of your calf when you have been w/ it for a year and go to know him. Many Many tears!!
Great Job - Ramee -- Oklahoma |
||||||
|
|||||||
