Fun Quick Draws

Shadow Mountain

by Casey Shannon

I am on a sweet little vacation right now from teaching. I am having a bit of fun with some quick draws and I thought I'd share some of them with you! These works are 7 x 10 inches on Masa Paper. They are quick renditions of the spirit of nature. The trick is to clear your mind of all pre-ideas, grab your paper and paints, and 'just go for it'. 
I hope you enjoy them. 

Garden House by Casey Shannon

Pagoda Tree by Casey Shannon

Little Bird by Casey Shannon

Modern Bamboo by Casey Shannon

Landscape by Casey Shannon

Sticks of Bamboo by Casey Shannon

and finally!!!

Gentle Grass by Casey Shannon

I hope you have enjoyed viewing these. All are available for sale on my art website.
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Casey Shannon

Director of North America Branch ~ ICCPS

International Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting Society

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Third Twitter Art Exhibit - L.A.

Leaving Bamboo

Sumi-e by Casey Shannon 

@CaseyStudio

This is my contribution to the (#twitterartexhibit) Twitter Art Exhibit in Los Angeles, CA. 

WHERE
Exhale Unlimited (E.U.) Gallery
953 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA 90012

        WHEN          
Saturday, January 12, 2013 | 7-10PM
Show runs January 12 – February 10, 2013

#TwitterArtExhibit has moved into a new phase. The basic idea is an exhibition where artists from around the world donate original postcard-sized art to an exhibition where the proceeds of the sale of the art go to a non-profit organization. Cards are sold for $35 USD.

The first two exhibits were organized by David Sandum (twitter profile: @DavidSandumArt) in 2010 in Norway for children's books in his home town library of Moss. And, in 2012, the Women's Crisis Center also in his home town.

David Sandum at the 2012 Twitter Art Exhibit

Moss, Norway

This third exhibition will be taking place in Los Angeles, CA. USA. Future #TwitterArtExhibits will be organized in various places around the world with a target of two to three exhibitions a year.

A new website has been developed for the organization of the #TwitterArtExhibit http://twitterartexhibit.org. Here you can find the information about this new format and  about the L.A. exhibition which is for the benefit of under-served youth (18-25) in L.A.’s Rampart District in the arts. Art Division LA The Exhibition is hosted at Exhale Unlimited (E.U.) Gallery.

I have participated in all of these exhibits. They serve as a way for me to help others in the best way that I know how to do - through my art!

You can also participate.

Entries are due by January 4, 2013 

Casey Shannon Studio

Director of the North American Branch - ICCPS

International Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting Society

国際中国書法国画家協会アメリカ支部：Ms. Casey Shannon　アメリカ現代水墨画家

Japan Art Tribute

Windy Bamboo by Casey

Tribute to Japan!

I have created a special Gallery Japan. This gallery is dedicated to the courageous people of Japan. It is my small way of giving tribute to a strong nation in crisis. The people of Japan are currently going through tremendous challenges. I want to acknowledge their courage and strength and the best way I know how to do that is through my sumi-e art. Art has a way of transcending horrendous tragedy and speaks to us through our hearts, our spirits, and our souls. Sumi-e exemplifies this concept.

The images I have chosen to show in this gallery are all bamboo. These images are for only display. Bamboo signifies strength and the ability to bend. This quality of bamboo is much like the character of the Japanese people. When the storm winds blow, they bend. When the storm winds cease, they stand tall with strength and integrity. Japan is shaken not broken. Bless our friends in Japan!

Gallery Japan 

Please visit this gallery to view my art tribute and dedication to Japan

Casey Shannon Studio

国際中国書法国画家協会アメリカ支部：Ms. Casey Shannon　アメリカ現代水墨画家

Director of North American ICCPS

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Japan Earthquake Relief T-Shirt

Japan Earthquake Relief Shirt ~ Purple Haze by CaseyStudio

Casey Shannon Studio has designed a special t-shirt at Zazzle for Japan Earthquake Relief. Zazzle will donate 10% and I will donate 100% of my proceeds from the sale of this shirt to Japan Earthquake Relief fund. Please consider purchasing a shirt for yourself or to give as a gift. You will receive an elegant t-shirt and be helping the people of Japan at the same time. There are numerous styles and colors of shirts to choose from. Zazzle is a great company and these shirts are top quality. Also, pass this message along to others. Help me raise lots of money for our friends and neighbors in Japan. 

Let's give them what they need most ~ MONEY! 

To donate to American Red Cross for Japan click here

Thanking you in advance for your generosity and kindness
to the people of Japan in their time of need.

Casey Shannon Studio

Director North American Branch of ICCPS

国際中国書法国画家協会アメリカ支部：Ms. Casey Shannon　アメリカ現代水墨画家

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Studio Video

Studio Video

Contemporary Sumi-e Art studio video

by Casey Shannon Studio

This is a new studio video. It contains Contemporary Sumi-e Bamboo (only). Modern brush painting reaching beyond the limits of traditional ink painting creating spirit and the sound of one hand. Meditative artistic Zen. This video includes music called 'Waves of Bliss' by Marina Raye. So, turn your volume on. I hope you enjoy viewing it. Get ready for some visual eye candy!

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Bamboo Dance is Featured

Bamboo Dance

is being featured in the new Dick Blick Studio catalog for 2010-2011

They are celebrating 100 years!

Bamboo Dance is on pare 366.
Get your free catalog HERE

The original painting is not for sale.

You can purchase a lovely Fine Art Print HERE

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Red Moon over Bamboo

Red Moon over Bamboo

Into the field of
yellow flowers,
The red setting sun!
~ Natsume Soseki

This is a contemporary Sumi-e I created one evening while I was sitting in my studio 'day dreaming'. The image appeared to me very clearly as if by a mysterious magic. I love bamboo and the significance of this majestic plant of the grass family. I often use bamboo as the subject for my paintings.

Ever since the beginning of Chinese and Japanese writing and painting, bamboo has been written about and also been painted in the same manner, in other words, a work depicting bamboo is both a painting and a piece of calligraphy. There are so-called “bamboo painters” who all their lives paint only bamboo. "The bamboo is strong, upright, and dependable. He may bend with the wind, the storm and the rain, but he never breaks. He is a true gentleman of courage and endurance". (Ju 1989).

Bamboo also exhibits a certain visual appeal. Its straight stalk was the symbol of the sage, in that adversity could always bend it but it could never break it. I want to be like the mighty bamboo!

Red Moon over Bamboo may be purchased as a Fine Art Reproduction and the original can be seen in Gallery Spirit.

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Rain Bamboo

Rain Bamboo

This Sumi-e is called Rain Bamboo. It is my hottest selling image of last year and is proving to be a favorite seller this new year as well. It is also my most viewed piece of art on my POD (print on demand) websites.

Bamboo is a very special image in Asian art. Bamboo signifies strength and the ability to bend. In our current world and economic climate, we all can use this quality within ourselves. We can embrace the spirit of the bamboo. We need to be strong and we need to be able to bend with the times in grace.

The original sumi-e painting is for sale at my website CaseyShannon.com Click on 'Portfolios' and go to Gallery Essence. Various POD websites where you can purchase Fine Art Reproductions of 'Rain Bamboo' are listed at the bottom of the page.

The rain is over:

South Mountain puffs out

Spring clouds.

- Soseki

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Bamboo of Color

Bamboo of Color

Here is another fairly early sumi-e created with Japanese Watercolor. This painting was created approximately one month following my very first attempt at painting after experiencing my stroke. This painting was a lot of fun to do and a personal spiritual journey into art. At this point in my recovery painting, I felt more 'at one' with the brush. I had done my meditation before starting my artwork. I felt calm and had no preconceived idea about how this sumi-e was to look. I let my brush lead me into the painting rather than trying to force the brush strokes into any shape.

With this painting, I let the spirit of the bamboo talk to me and guide me. I forced nothing and let my idea that I was painting with my non-dominate hand after a devastating stroke just 'be'. This was the first time I had been able to achieve that place and I was pleased with the result. Compared to the first sumi-e I shared with you in my last blog post, I had made serious advancements in my attitude and in my mind and in my painting.

The original framed sumi-e has a happy home in the collection of an art collector in Carmel, CA. The artist seal = Year of the Boar.

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Saying Good Bye to 2009

Windy Bamboo with Tea
~ Sumi-e by Casey Shannon

Well my dear readers, here we are saying good-bye to this year 2009. What a year it has been with it's disappointments, changes, scares, up's and down's, challenges, surprises, and yes, joys. We have each experienced this year in different ways and in different degrees. And, I am glad to start off a new year and new decade, which I hope will be more loving, tolerant, calm, and peaceful for us all.

Personally,I am looking forward to seeing the 'Blue Moon' tomorrow on New Year's Eve. This astronomical phenomenon will not occur again until 2020 or so I am told by Brian Williams of the NBC Nightly News. It will not occur on a Thursday New Year's Eve for a very long time.

A blue moon is a full moon that is not timed to the regular monthly pattern. Most years have twelve full moons which occur approximately monthly, but in addition to those twelve full lunar cycles, each solar calendar year contains an excess of roughly eleven days compared to the lunar year. The extra days accumulate, so that every two or three years (on average about every 2.7154 years), there is an extra full moon. The extra moon is called a "blue moon." Do you remember that song Blue Moon? That was my dad's favorite song.

This is my last blog entry for 2009. I have enjoyed communicating with you this year and will continue to do so as long as you bless me with your readership. I wish you all peace and joy in the new year of 2010 and a glorious decade ahead!

Windy Bamboo with Tea Sumi-e Art Print

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Blue Bamboo Midnight

Blue Bamboo Midnight

Ever looked up at the full moon in awe? I have many times and felt bathed in the moon's magical glow. I often wondered who else might be looking at the moon at that moment and feel blessed by it's white glowing light. I am reminded of a childrens song about the moon. It goes like this:

God bless the moon,
And, God bless me,
God bless the one that I want to see!

This Sumi-e is called 'Blue Bamboo Midnight'. Media: Sumi (ink) and Japanese watercolor. This glowing image was inspired by a full moon shinning down on a lovely group of bamboo. In Chinese culture, bamboo represents strength but with the ability to bend. Lovely symbolism.

The original sumi-e painting of 'Blue Bamboo Midnight' has been sold. However, I do offer this painting as an art print at my Zazzle Gallery. You may professionally finish your art print right on the website before purchase with a mat and frame of your choice. I hope you enjoy browsing my gallery. There are many lovely Sumi-e images to select from there. Enjoy!

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Sumi-e Painting with White Ink

White Ink!

Here is a fun twist on traditional Sumi-e ink painting. Painting with white ink! This is a creative and beautiful alternative to the traditional practices.

There is no beauty quite like that of snow and winter time splendor. As an artist and a lover of the outdoors and nature, I have come to love our magnificent earth in all her wondrous seasons especially her magical glistening snow.

The original Sumi-e painting is located in Gallery White and it is called 'Noble Snow Spirit Like Bamboo'. It was inspired by bamboo leaning into the weight of snow.

The materials I used to create this sumi-e included traditional ink stick and Japanese watercolor. However, in addition, I used Dr. Ph Martin's Bleed Proof White ink. And, the image was painted on Canson Ingres paper from France.

Fine Art Reproductions of this image are available at The Untapped Source. Art Prints are available from my Zazzle Gallery and in my Sumi Gallery at ImageKind.