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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, September 12
Took reference photos last Tuesday...Dairy, Buffalo Ranch, Dairy in that order
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therichartist
on Sat 12 Sep 2009 05:21 PM PDT
My plans were foiled last Tuesday when I went out to Ramona to take dairy cow photos for a commission. Because of the continuing high heat all of the cows were hanging out in the shade, not what I need!
Making the best of it, I took a detour out to the Buffalo Ranch hoping to get a good close up for a portrait I'd like to do. Do you think this is close enough????  Meet Harley, her mother died and she was raised by a human family. Still able to integrate into the herd she responds when called, how great is that? However, I think this might be a tad too close! Watch for some Buffalo paintings coming up in the near future though, as I did get a number of great shots! (Thanks Amie!) |
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