Shawn Vernon Art Gallery & Store http://www.shawnvernonart.com Features Koi Wall Sculptures and Paintings by American Artist Shawn Vernon Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:05:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Aqua Buddha http://www.shawnvernonart.com/?p=56 http://www.shawnvernonart.com/?p=56#comments Sun, 23 May 2010 15:27:30 +0000 admin http://www.shawnvernonart.com/?p=56 sleepy buddhaSome people are naturally introspective. Others have therapists. I have art. A friend of mine has a backyard that looks like a Thai jungle. She has plants with huge green elephant leaves and bamboo jetting out everywhere. There are Buddha statues and exotic potted plants with small Hindu artifacts scattered around the top soil. A broken piece of earthen clay resembling the face of Buddha at the base of one plant caught my eye. It’s facial expression was calm and content. I stared at it thinking how great it would be if I could capture what I was seeing and feeling in a watercolor. I tried a few times but I could never get it quite right. On one attempt the expression was all wrong. On another attempt the color and blending were off. So I decided to stop painting and wait until it felt right. A couple of years later I decided to give it another shot and to my extreme delight managed to capture the calm and content expression I admired so much. After some reflection I suddenly realized why it took me so long to paint that calm and content expression. My first attempts were made at a time when my life was the opposite of calm and content. Therefore my mind would not allow me to paint something I myself was not. Who needs a couch when you have a paint brush.

]]> http://www.shawnvernonart.com/?feed=rss2&p=56 2 Koi Wall Sculpture http://www.shawnvernonart.com/?p=3 http://www.shawnvernonart.com/?p=3#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 06:34:58 +0000 admin http://www.shawnvernonart.com/?p=3 My new limited-edition Koi Wall Sculptures have a three-dimensional effect, as if one is looking at a Koi pond only on a wall.

Each sculpture includes two Koi fish extended one and half inches from it’s background. Koi fish are available in six limited edition patterns.

The sculptures are hand painted and there are four three-dimensional backgrounds to choose from including; clear acrylic, black pebble, white pebble, and clear frosted pebble.

Koi Wall Sculptures are signed by yours truly and come with a letter of authenticity. They measure 28 inches by 7 1/4 inches.

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