QUOTE BY MARK TWAIN

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that you, too,
can become great.

PHILIPPIANS 2:14

Do everything without complaining.

SWEDISH PROVERB

Those who wish to sing always find a song.
EXAMPLE 1

There are a few things I sketch
Which are my personal favorites:
The Bunny below is a good example,
And he is beautiful when matted
And framed into an 11 x 12 or larger frame.

With this one I would add
The color with
My watercolor pens;
I always do my study, and then I make my
copies/prints, and then I add the color,
Making each one (sort of) an original.
MANDALA MAKER
Copyrighted by Jean Elizabeth Ward

The Mandala Maker
Precise and proud,
Draws her line,
And thinks out loud.

What will it be
That I will see tonight?

I must not think,
Yet, think . . . right,
She closes her eyes,
Thank you for this moment;

... She writes ...
To the left, and to the right,
Around and around she goes,
One side, and then the other
As she dwells not --
On the future, the past,
Her family, or her lover.

Alas! Alas she
Has completed this one,
And to The Mandala Maker
It was creative fun.

Excerpt from my book
EARTH SPIRIT


POETRY PLUS ART -- ART GALLERY

Examples of Ink Sketches, Mandalas, Illustrations, and Prints by Jean Elizabeth Ward

Poet Laureate -- Multimedia Artist -- Mandala Maker -- Published Author

EXAMPLE 2

When my vision was limited
I found that ink was the easiest for me
As I could hold it on a clip board,
And I didn't have to move my eyes;
Which was great as the right one
Had been secured in place,
And this couple is the style
I developed for myself;
Practicing
By sketching
A left and a right image
And then adding the color
As I did with this pair
Emulating Pablo Picasso.

This couple still remain one of
My personal favorites.

~~~~~~~

Signed and dated copies
are available
in sizes
8 x 10,
5 x 7,
or
4 x 6
contact me for details.
Copyrighed by Jean ELizabeth Ward
Copyrighted by Jean Elizabeth Ward
EXAMPLE 3

The one below is 16 x 20; I painted the picture and them prepared the frame and continued the picture out onto the frame,
It is much larger than it appears here. Instead of ink I have emulated the style of Marc Chagall and was much more difficult to complete
as you can see by all the different colors. The son below the sun is symbolic for my son. Everything else is symbolic for something.
l still own this painting and have found that Mr. Chagall is much more difficult to try to emulate than Mr. Picasso.
I have developed my own style, still I wanted to add this one for you to see what can be done with acrylics.  
They are wonderful, fast drying, and I have found that oil can be added to enhance them as well.
Copyrighed by Jean Elizabeth Ward
MY MOTTO AS A MODERN JAPANESE SENRYU POEM

'Tis better to do something and make a mistake than to do nothing
EXAMPLE 4

Will be my more elaborate and abstract ink sketches which I have worked for years to perfect and get the look I want;
I attach my acid free paper to a clip board, then I begin in the middle with the eyes and work outward from there.
I found that to be better for making my copies as well. I can take each one and collage them and make them as large as I want by doing this.

Below are just a few example


I AM STILL WORKING ON THIS PAGE
PLEASE DO VISIT AGAIN

THANK YOU

JEAN ELIZABETH WARD
EXAMPLE 5

I purchased many courses in Mandala Making and learned them all, but in the end I went with what I like to do.
There are many with oil pastels on the traditional black paper.  However, then I returned to my favorite medium, which is ink;

I like the bleeding of the ink through the paper -- giving me another effect on the reverse side;
I like that and the choices I have -- of adding color in whatever medium, and if, or if not I choose to do so.

One of my goals for 2007 is to put together my own Mandala Book, with poetry for each one.

Below are only a few examples to be added as time permits
EXAMPLE 6

MOSAICS

Have always been one of my loves and I love the challenge of the collages I finish with.
My personal favorite has been my lamps, mirrors, and picture frames.


POEM FROM THE BOOK POETRY A' LA SHAPE

VINCENT VAN GOGH

Vincent Van Gogh - would paint a bat,
And was probably convinced that
He could fly – as well,
As his sickness
Drove him
Straight
Into a
Bats
H
E
L
L
Bats
And,
Alley cats,
And rats that fly,
However, to paint like
Van Gogh I would never try.



EXAMPLE 7

MINIATURES

Many of my miniatures may be found on my lamp shades which I paint for the lamps I mosaic.
Once upon a time it was my Santa's and my jewelry. I no longer paint those, now it is my seascapes and palm trees.

I WILL BE ADDING PHOTOS AS TIME PERMITS
THANK YOU FOR STOPPING BY

2007 Photographs

Barbara Anne's 2nd. Children's book is out
online at
www.iUniverse
Barnes & Nobles
www.Amazon.com

The beginning of
Brother Bob's
Memoirs may be seen at
www.Shadowpoetry.com  


JEAN ELIZABETH WARD
If you want an original and you can't get one you paint it
as I did with this one; this is my little Pekingese and myself.
Visit her page of Children's Poetry if you have the time.

A BARBARA ANNE BUSHY TALE
A print of the rabbit is available
in my book:
MY JAPANESE POETRY
as well as ten other ones.

Available at
www.iUniverse.com
www.Amazon.com

This will be updated

        
Barbara Anne's little Brother Bob in 2007
Barbara Anne in 2007, in her teenage years.