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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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One thing I don't like about cleaning!
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
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