outrun the cowboys (not with the best of views meanwhile!), upstaged by another steer peeking from behind, perhaps contemplating the significance of the upside down horseshoe?
Working title, "Out of Luck?"
16x20, oil on canvas
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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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Saturday, February 16
New Western / Rodeo Painting in Progress
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therichartist
on Sat 16 Feb 2008 11:36 AM PST
Here is an upcoming addition to my Western/Rodeo works. I had to paint this, there is something about the main steer's face, looking quite bored while he waits his turn to try and
outrun the cowboys (not with the best of views meanwhile!), upstaged by another steer peeking from behind, perhaps contemplating the significance of the upside down horseshoe? Working title, "Out of Luck?" 16x20, oil on canvas |
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