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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 15
Hereford cow/cattle paintings, new and favorites!
by
therichartist
on Mon 15 Jun 2009 10:24 AM PDT
I've got two favorite new Hereford paintings, just finished. First is a classic portrait of Ranger. I've painted Ranger before, he was my bovine model for "What You See Is What You Get", an 8"x10" painting from a few years ago. Here he is close up, with every bit as much attitude as before, which I loved and is why I have chosen to paint him:
 This painting is 16"x20" oil on canvas. In the post below you can see some of this painting in progress in my online broadcast. Next is one I had previously done a 6"x6" study for, and the painting is 18"x18" oil on canvas.  The red and white face cows are dominating the easel lately, next up are Holsteins. |
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