"I'm Ready For My Close-Up"
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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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Thursday, October 16
Donated to the North Shore Animal League America online Charity Auction
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therichartist
on Thu 16 Oct 2008 12:03 PM PDT
Here is a view I see often when photographing dairy cows for painting reference, the extreme close up of the super curious one in the bunch.
"I'm Ready For My Close-Up" 18"x24" Sold Tuesday, October 14
Happy Cow Art
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therichartist
on Tue 14 Oct 2008 08:31 AM PDT
A common practice with artists is to do preliminary drawings and sketches for planning an oil painting. Sometimes several similar views are done to enable chosing the best one to paint.
I have generally only offered oil paintings for purchase, but I am going to start listing for sale some studies, charcoal and graphite of the Happy Cow paintings, as well as others. I think they would make great gifts for any Holstein fan, especially if they love the Happy Cows. This is one of my favorites of the Happy Cows:  You may recognize it as California Is The Place To Be. This is graphite on Arches 90 lb hot press watercolor paper, a surface I am especially fond of drawing on. This is about 5.5"x7". I love the value studies, hope you will too. I'll be posting more as I have time, but commissions are calling! Sunday, October 5
News and new works in progress, cow, cow dog, horses
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therichartist
on Sun 05 Oct 2008 09:52 AM PDT
News around here is my Husband's knee surgery went well and he is recovering nicely! It's kept the Rich Artist a little distracted having him around the house for the past couple of weeks, but he's back to work, (and so am I.)
These are on the back burner as I am working on two commissioned pieces seen in another post, but I wanted to put them up. The cow with the herding dog, I believe it's a border collie, is a pet cow of a local woman who teaches cutting. This guy came in as a youngster for practice, and walked right into her heart. Lucky for him, and for me, as I had the opportunity to take several excellent photo reference shots of him a while back. This is the first painting I'll be doing of him, there will be more, he's quite photogenic and giving Howard's Heifer a bit of competition as my favorite bovine model!  This piece is 24x24. This is just a vine charcoal value lay in, although I really do like it just as it is, this will be an oil painting, just as soon as I get around to it. I love this composition, the title is "I herd you". And one small piece in the wings, 6x12 oil on board, this one is just blocked in, and will be a looser style study. I love the shadows.  Not the best lit photo, it's on my mantle waiting to be finished. I might do this on a very large scale in the future, I think this study is working. Saturday, October 4
Mountain Oyster Club's 39th annual Contemporary Western Art Show and Sale
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therichartist
on Sat 04 Oct 2008 10:04 AM PDT
 This piece, 12x16 oil on linen titled "Nibbling on Sugar and Spice", has been accepted into the prestigious Mountain Oyster Club Contemporary Western Art Show and Sale, which will be November 23. This annual event is in it's 39th year. I am honored to be included in this years show. From their website: "The Mountain Oyster Club, established in 1948, is a private club composed of members united in the interest of preserving Southwestern heritage and “Old Pueblo” tradition. Their foundations in this way of life vary. Whether they come from pioneer stock with deep roots in Each year the Club sponsors the Annual Southwestern Art Show and For more information, visit them at www.mountainoysterclub.com |
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