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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, August 1
Recent portrait painting of two Hereford Bulls, titled "Respect A Bull"
by
therichartist
on Sat 01 Aug 2009 08:39 AM PDT
From photo reference taken in Ramona, this huge Hereford Bull was kept with a
younger male, and I love the way he is pushing his weight around, making sure the youngster knows who is boss! I've know I would paint this since the photo was taken, and it's turning out to be a great deal of fun, the swirls are going to be the best part.    This painting is 18"x24". "Respect A Bull" I love watching the cattle interact, this is a perfect example, and you don't know for sure if he was pushing the little guy around or just scratching his nose, but he does have a look in his eye! |
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