I've been busy with a lot of projects lately, filling print orders, sending original paintings to a show in San Antonio, hand embellishing, working on a couple of new works for upcoming shows....
Here is a picture of me with one of my recent orders, a hand embellished print of "Holstein Trio on Red".  The print is 24"x32". 
Packing a large piece takes some time and patience, and nerves of steel, hoping it arrives in one piece!  This one did, and here's what the new owner had to say about it:
"...it's fantastic! Just what I hoped it would be! Thanks, Denise!!!"

If you get a chance to check out the February/March edition of  Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion magazine, don't be surprised when you turn one of the pages and find Holstein cows from one of my paintings looking back at you.  There is a column (I'm not telling what page, it will take the fun out of looking for it) about me and my artwork, with a picture of the commissioned painting for Holstein World.

This is a really great magazine if you have not seen it before, I recommend it.  (Especially the Feb/March issue, just out!  ;o)

So I'm in the middle of working on a new painting of Howard's Heifer from another of the many great reference photos she posed for a while back, and I hit the end of my 150 ml tube of permalba white.  Being she's of the white face variety of cattle, of course, I need to immediately find a new tube, of which I know there exist at least two...somewhere.....I remember where they are, oh yes, I cleaned the studio a few weeks back, now where did I put that box???

I believe there is a place for everything, and everything in it's place, and it's place is right where I put it the last time!

Finally found the Permalba, in a box, under a box, in the closet.  Howard's Heifer takes on a personality on canvas once again:

12x16 oil on linen

Now that the Holiday rush is finally over, I'm buckled down (as much as I am capable anyway) and getting busy!  Three shows between now and April to prepare for, this week I'm getting ready to send a selection of original oil paintings to the