Once upon a time I went to Petaluma, California to photograph as reference the famous (at the time) Happy Cows of Real California Milk (now cheese) fame.  Of course they were Holsteins, and I did six paintings for them which they put on their website.  Of course I couldn't be happy just taking reference of them so I traveled around the beautiful scenery that is Northern California and stumbled upon a gorgeous herd of Jerseys.  This is where the reference for today's daily painting comes from, pictures I took of that herd.  She must have been pretty exemplary of the breed as the Jersey Association also chose one of this same cow (different pose) for me to paint for them.