We have just received a new 40 foot container of stone and wood sculptures from Bali. Click on the video below to see the founder, Kyle, unloading one of our best sellers from the container, a 50 inch tall Buddha head fountain sculpture.
In the 40 foot container are garden Buddha and Ganesh statues as well as a couple of Foo Dog statues that we have been asked a lot about over the summer garden season.
Here is OSO making sure the Foo Dogs dont take over his territory.
Our wood fat and happy Buddha artist, William, has also developed a new color that combines antique black with gold hints which I was very excited to see!
The best employee in the world, Mark, with one of our new fat & happy Buddhas in the gold & black color.
If you are looking for a sculpture for your garden and dont see something you like on the website, please send me an email at [email protected] and I will be happy to see if one just arrived in this container. I can send you a quick picture too!
We have just received a new shipment of our hand made, panchaloha, lost wax method, bronze cast in South India as well as brass statues hand crafted in North India. Our stocks were getting low so we are so happy to have more statues to offer you!
They will be posted in the coming weeks and months as we slowly unpack them and post them on the website.
A shipment of stone and wood statues has just arrived from Bali. We get about 4 containers a year from Bali but this one was special. I was excited to see the wood panels I custom designed on my last trip to Bali. I knew that I wanted to give my wood artists more work and I have been hearing from customers, like you, that you wanted more wood wall panels.
I spoke with my fat and happy Buddha artist, Will, about him carving large Fat and Happy Buddha masks with only the smiling face of the Buddha as a wall hanging. Here they are and they look amazing! The grains of the wood are beautiful and just add life to the joy emanating from the Happy Buddha mask! I am so happy with Will’s work!
I also spoke to a wood artist, Mr Komang, about carving different types of wood panels. He typically only carves trees and flowers for panels but I love his work so I really wanted to work together with him to help him grow so I sent him pictures for ideas about what I would want for Lotus Sculpture. He was very excited and said he could surely carve what I was looking to do. We quickly agreed on the designs and this is the first time I am seeing them. They came out exactly how I envisioned them! I am so happy that I am bringing a new artist into the fold and giving him more work!
In 2016 I took a trip to Varanasi, India to buy white marble statues from Vijay. After 2 years of waiting the shipment has finally arrived! The shipment contains white marble, black marble, and sunnar stone of Hindu gods and the Buddha. Included were 8 huge statues of the Buddha, Shiva, Ganesh, Saraswati, and Lakshmi! You can view all our marble statues from this shipment here, View Marble Statues
 Unloading a crate with a 4-foot tall white marble Lakshmi in it
All the crates inside the warehouse
The crates were HUGE!
6 foot tall painted Lakshmi and Ganesha statues
6 foot tall Saraswati and Shiva along with 4-foot tall statues of Durga, Shiva, and Lakshmi
You can view all our marble statues from this shipment here, View Marble Statues
Or you can look for these and other new arrivals posted daily on our New Arrivals page.
Our next shipment will be a wood and marble shipment from South India arriving on October 19th!
On an almost daily basis, I have people asking me about a base or stand for their garden Buddha and Hindu statues. Many times the statue is perfect but on some occasions, an extra 6 or 12 inches is needed to make it ideal for their space. Here are 3 things that I tell to everyone on how to go about fashioning a pedestal for your statue.
This stone garden Buddha statue is raised on a base of local river stone surrounded by paving stones to raise the entire bed up about 12 inches
Look locally
I feel that each region has its own dominant colors and textures found in nature. San Diego is a desert and thus there is a tan sandstone, desert feel to it. The northeast of the States has fall colors and granite stone. Look at the colors in your back yard and then head down to a local masonry store, quarry, or anywhere that would sell local stone. See if they sell chunks of local stone. Most likely you will find many smaller pieces that would need to be placed together but you may get lucky enough to find a whole block!
Pavers
Head over to your local hardware store and see what they have for pavers. These can easily be arranged in whatever shape and height you would like. I have seen pavers used with and without mortar so you may not need to make too much of a mess.
Build your own base!Â
The perfect base made from a concrete mold!
This is the most do-it-yourself option of the 3. A customer of ours sent in a picture to our #mylotussculpture page with one of our Buddha Head fountains on a beautiful base and I immediately noticed the base the Buddha’s head was on. This option is great because you have control over the shape and the height of the base. Here are the directions he gave to me for making a base:
a.We bought an oval 40 gallon Tuff Stuff Tub from Tractor Supply and used it as a mold. We chose that because the edges were curved and gave the base a nice shape for Buddha and around the right size.
b. Mixed concrete and charcoal colored dye in the tub itself and just added the right amount of concrete to get the base height we wanted. Then when the concrete cured, we flipped it over to use as the base. It comes out very easily. We applied satin polyurethane to the base to keep it scratch resistant and look a little darker. It probably cost around $60 to do this.
If you have any other suggestions please email me at [email protected] and I will be happy to add them!
The customer went to the local masonry store and picked up the perfect block of local stone for Garden Ganesha!
4 rows of pavers lifted the Buddha head up an additional 24 inches!
The customer created a base using local leftover shale stone
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