I have to share a little about my life as an artist.  I can't speak for other artists and of course we are all individuals, but it takes a lot of different hats to pull it off.  Yesterday I was a computer technician.  

I spend some time sitting on a couch with my laptop, where I have a view of what is on the easel and can study it from a little farther away than when I am standing at it.  

My studio laptop keyboard was not working anymore, and needed to be replaced.  Enter YouTube, my savior, with a video showing exactly how to replace the keyboard on my particular laptop!  I highly recommend looking on YouTube anytime you need to fix something.

Now I am typing with great ease once again.  Studio time is precious and so many things come up to distract that I was thrilled to be able to spend 5 minutes on this rather than having to take it to a repair shop, which would have been a much bigger time slot away from the easel.  Now, back to painting this pastoral scene with Hereford, Angus and Baldy calves.

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                                            16"x20" original oil painting of a Holstein Calf by artist Denise Rich  Sold

I have been painting cows since 2004 as my artistic focus.  In addition to the much asked question, "Why cows?" I am frequently asked if I ever get tired of painting cows.  The simple answer is no, but there is more.

We must admit that all creatures including humans are fascinating, add that to my love for painting and I have to decide where to narrow it down.   One of the biggest challenges in being a painter is deciding what to paint, for me the composition is more important than the subject.  You can paint any subject, a variety of subjects, one particular subject over and over, but in each case,  if you don't have a great composition it really doesn't matter.  Any subject can be composed wonderfully, and therein lies much of the success of any painting, cow

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16"x20" original oil painting of Holstein Heifer by Denise Rich   Available

This post includes two recent paintings, both are 16"x20" in size, both are Holsteins.  The compositions were both cropped from a larger digital image that I took at the dairy.  Placement on the canvas and how much of the cow is in the painting are always my first considerations with composing my portraits.  

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