Fine Art Blog

Category: Cows

  • Artist Caroline Shotton – Are these cows upset? ‘blue’ even?

    This is the latest Caroline Shotton release ‘Blue Moon’ box canvas.

    Around the whole outline of the moon itself are hand placed, jewels which is a lovely finishing touch to this wonderfully vibrant piece.

    Before this piece came out my favourite colour for a Shotton background was red but now, with the very deep blue, I think this is now the clear winner.

    There is some hidden depth to this painting, the detail in the top half of the sky and the craters in the moon. It is a tribute to Caroline that she makes these paintings look so ridiculously simple but in fact there is a strong artistic intelligence behind them.

    Blue moon but very happy cows!

    thanks

    Emily

  • Artist Caroline Shotton’s pictures lie, cows do not!

    We wanted to make the point that sometimes the images that are press released (in advance of the item arriving in the gallery) don’t do the pictures justice and the finished artwork is often much much nicer in person!


    (Press release image ‘Two & A Calf’)

    This was particularly the case when Caroline Shotton released the 4 limited edition box canvas’s
    ‘Moo Too,’
    ‘Two And A Calf,’
    ‘2 Pint 4’
    ‘Meet The Famooly’
    in Autumn last year.

    Above is the press release image for ‘Two & Calf’ by Caroline Shotton. The image looks really quite flat, mostly variation of red and with no embellishments.

    Now let’s looks at some camera images we took of the actual painting:


    (picture we took of ‘Two & A Calf’)

    Take a closer look at the actual ‘jewels’ on the box canvas, on this picture they are yellow and on the other titles in the series they where various colours, I remember one was this amazing shade of purple!


    (notice the stuck on yellow jewels, and stuck on fabric hearts)


    (notice the finish on the white, starting from above the cow’s noses)

    Even the faces of the cows are actually embellished and are raised with actual paint work, this is not a flat off the printer finish but a much more special, lively image that looks like it’s actually come directly out of Caroline’s studio

    thank you

    James

    Useful links
    Cows in art
    Links to more cow art
    Fun Cow clip art

  • Caroline Shotton – Bit Of Red, Bit Of Cows, Bit Of Canvas

    Artist Caroline Shotton has produced a lovely new red Box Canvas ‘From Me To Moo’ just in time for Valentines Day here in the UK on February 14th.

    (Here is the publisher’s jpeg of the item:)

    From Me To Moo by artist Caroline Shotton

    The red ones where always traditionally her fastest selling Box Canvases and with the 2 tone effect of red, this is one a little bit different. It’s also unique, in that the flowers that appear on the piece are actually bonded onto the canvas, and it works really well.

    The blades of grass also have the same effect. It could be that these embellished pieces with more intricate embellishment is the way she’s moving forward, whatever the case, I like it!

    (Here’s a section of the Canvas I photographed slightly side on, so you can really see the embellishments:)

    From Me To Moo by artist Caroline Shotton - My Photo

    What exactly is the magic pull of this Caroline Shotton cow art on the buying public? I’m not sure, perhaps it’s like the Aesop fable of the goose that laid the golden egg:

    http://www.happychild.org.uk/nvs/cont/stories/aesopsfables/page0002.htm
    http://www.ongoing-tales.com/SERIALS/oldtime/FAIRYTALES/goose.html

    In other words, if the public like it they like! No need to figure out why.

    The cows clearly like the finished pieces ;0) anyway.

    thank you

    Russell

  • Cow-A-Bunga! Cows vs The Art World – Caroline Shotton shows us how!

    Has the Art world now officially gone as a Mad as a Milk Maid?

    UK Artist Caroline Shotton has taken the bold step in repainting in her own ‘Milky Way’ some the ‘Great Masters’ in history and putting them in Cow form. These Limited Edition prints are ‘Moovelous’!

    Moona Lisa by artist Caroline Shotton

    Caroline Shotton painting: ‘Moona Lisa’ (2007)
    vs.
    ‘Mona Lisa’ by Leonardo Da Vinci
    (painted circa 1503–1506)

    Moona Lisa by artist Caroline Shotton

    The Cow With The Pearl Earring by artist Caroline Shotton

    Caroline Shotton painting: ‘The Cow with a Pearl Earring’ (2007)
    vs.
    ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ by Johannes Vermeer
    (painted circa 1665-1666)

    The Cow With The Pearl Earring by artist Caroline Shotton

    The Laughing Cowvalier by artist Caroline Shotton

    Caroline Shotton painting: The ‘Laughing Cowvalier’ (2007)
    vs.
    ‘Laughing Cavalier’ by Frans Hals
    (painted 1624)

    The Laughing Cowvalier by artist Caroline Shotton

    The Moo by artist Caroline Shotton

    Caroline Shotton painting: ‘The Moo’ (2007)
    vs.
    ‘The Scream’ by Edvard Munch
    (series of paintings 1893)

    The Moo by artist Caroline Shotton

    The Persistence Of Moomory by artist Caroline Shotton

    Caroline Shotton painting: ‘The Persistence of Moomory’ (2007)
    vs.
    ‘The Persistence of Memory’ by Salvador Dali
    (painted 1931)

    The Persistence Of Moomory by artist Caroline Shotton

    The Smooch by artist Caroline Shotton

    Caroline Shotton painting: ‘The Smooch’ (2007)
    vs.
    ‘The Kiss’ by Gustav Klimt
    (painted 1907)

    The Smooch by artist Caroline Shotton

    I personally love these and find them a very confident statement on Caroline Shotton’s part. Some really great painting, not to mention creativity, went into these pieces. You really have to these pieces in the flesh to appreciate them fully. Everyone who has seen them has commented how the pictures have grown on them and how their favourite of the 6 keeps changing.

    The frames on the 4 framed pieces are about 4” wide but are light in colour and give the pieces both a modern and contemporary feel at the same time. The other 2 are Box Canvases, the style Caroline has made all her own in recent years.

    thank you

    Russell