Two Golden Retreivers

The two Golden Retrievers is a gift from a loving mom to her son and his family for Christmas. The son and his family’s Golden on the right side of the painting live a very long life and crossed over the rainbow bridge. From the stories told, you never saw this girl without a ball. The Beautiful young Golden on the right is the families’ new furbaby.

This pet portrait is about half way completed. There is still work to be done on the chest of the dog on the left. At this point the background hasn’t been worked out yet. It is a watercolor, pet portrait on Arches 300 lb. Paper. This painting is being done by JLHackett.

The Fine Art Cafe offers pet portraits in colored pencil art as well as watercolor.

Rice Paper Batik

Rice Paper Batik

Dee Cochran's rice paper batiks are done with watercolor paint and permanent ink on rice paper. The paintings are done buy layering wax and paint done in a wax resist style of batik. Once satisfied with a painting, you gently crinkle the rice paper into a ball, pinching it in certain areas where you may want cracks to occur. The complete surface, as a final step, is covered with wax and then ironed to remove the wax. The resulting painting is similar to a stained glass window. When the painting is finally completed, float it on a sheet of mat board to reveal the deckle edges. This is only a synopsis of the process of the creation of a rice paper batik.