My year so far.

In the middle of the coldest Winter in recent memory, I appropriately started off my year by completing another in my series of Grandmother Elemental Shields paintings, Grandmother Ice. It’s painted with Golden Open Acrylics on a circular canvas.

Grandmother Ice, acrylic on canvas 20″x20″.Copyright Jane E. Ward 2014 and beyond.

This silverpoint drawing, completed in 2013, Kwan Yin with Chrysanthemums was in the Round Rock TX Drawing Show in the Spring.

Kwan Yin with Chrysanthemums, silverpoint drawing. Copyright Jane E. Ward 2014 and beyond.

I took a wonderful Smalti workshop at the Chicago Mosaic School in the Summer and bought my first hammer and hardy. Now I’m ready to make some new mosaics with Italian Smalti.

Fall Leaf, smalti mosaic in progress.
Copyright Jane E. Ward 2014 and beyond

Fall is here now, although the temperature has yet to go below 80 degrees here in Texas, and I have some of my  jewelry in a show at the Texas Art Asylum, October 17,18 and 19th.

Ojos de Diosas, copper wire and jet beads. Copyright Jane E. Ward 2014 and beyond.

I’ve worked on several other projects, you can see one in my last post, and have even more in the planning stages, so all in all so far 2014 has  been a very busy and fun year.