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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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Monday, June 18
Another new original oil painting
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therichartist
on Mon 18 Jun 2007 04:24 PM PDT
This is a Charolais cow portrait in oil on linen. I took the photo reference for this in Ramona among the same herd of cattle as the recent painting of the Hereford cow and her Black Baldy calf.
My daughter thinks it looks like Bodacious the famous Rodeo Bull. I'm pretty sure they are from the same type of stock, but of course this is a cow, not a bull. I really loved painting the swirls and putting a lot of subtle color in.  12"x16" oil on stretched linen This painting is available, for information, click here.
Black Angus cow and calf near Santa Ysabel, ca
by
therichartist
on Mon 18 Jun 2007 04:14 PM PDT
My bovine filled corner of the world was busy getting ready, so I've got a few
paintings behind in listing new work! This first original oil is a Black Angus Cow and Calf. I really love how this painting looks, the sillouette style of the black cows against the rich greens really does stand out. I loved the pose of both of them in the original photo reference, taken on the left side of the road just before you hit Dudley's Bakery in Santa Ysabel going east from Ramona. If you drive out there much, you've probably seen them. Then again, maybe not, sometimes I forget that not everyone has the same cow radar as I do! The brushwork is very evident, but doesn't show up in the photograph here of the painting. I can send you closer views if you are interested.  6"x12"oil on gessoed masonite, my favorite support. The surface of this is just beautiful. This original oil painting is Sold. |
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