Saturday 21 March 2020

Juniperus_communis_#1


On Monday this week I was lucky enough to find this Juniperus Communis in a small nursery.




















The truncline showed a Crossing of two branches and the straight trunc was a bit boring,
So a drastic decision according to the basic design had to be made.


I decided to use the left branch wich has almost  the dimensions of a subtrunc.
So here we go ... The raw-material after the first cut.























The first part of the new design. Heavy bendings and anchoring on the iron-bar  and trunc.
The bendings and primary wiring will be continued next week, after the first part has set.


Sunday 9 February 2020

update_juniperius_chinensis_blaauwes

The Juniper freshly edited,
with the green closer to the trunc. Which front-view is best?







Sunday 26 January 2020

field_maple_wired

The tree more clear now after the designing session. There were simply to much branches and twigs.
Now the branches for the structural composition of this Acer are more or less set.
And again for my liking the overall silhoutte comes too triangularly,
but this is a necessary intermediat stadium to thicken the lower branches in comparison to
the upper ones. Once this relation appears reasonably, I will come back to a more naturalistic
tree-design.
And sorry, the wiring is not elegant right now. I ran out of some wire-gauges ...




Look, how ugly the original raw-material had beeen ...





Tuesday 21 January 2020

update_repanda_yew

The branches had fairly thickened this growing period.
Nevertheless they have to be styled again to avoid a boring straight
outcome.
The green of the top has to increase considerably.





Wednesday 15 January 2020

update_curly_yew

Update of the little, curly Taxus baccata.
This photo is of January 2016. Diameter of the "trunc" roughly 0,34 in.
Not even the diameter of a regular pencil.


The Yew had been into field-culture for three years.
Pictures of the tree as of today ...



Sunday 12 January 2020

tsuga_canadiensis

The story of a Hemlock.
Maybe a bit too even and "sprucy" but do not forget,
the tree is on its very first styling-level ...




The whitish part shows the actual tree within the raw-material.