The draft of a virtual according to the previous posting.
It may seem a bit eccentric, but it is just a draft and this picture is just a "screen-shot of my mind"
today. It will defenitly turn out different, but for me it is interesting to see the difference between
phantasy and reality, after the first maturing years of this marriage.
Virtual:
I decided trying to transform an old Taxus stump into a Tanuki.
The living part will be Taxus as well. The stump has been weathered for a couple of years outside in my
garden.
Then I gave it to a professional sandblasting company. Maybe I will make some changes and carvings
here and there, but by and large the basis will stay as it is now. The wire-cutter is placed as a scale.
Height: 50 cm, Nebari: up to 30 cm.
Picture:
Made this quickshot of my new J. sabina with my mobile, after the first styling-session.
Sorry for the bad quality. 'Have to put up my photo-equipment to do better fotos.
According to the design, I tried on a classic, maybe neo-classic, mainstream or whatever style ...
At present I am very captivated of the japanese styling-approach ...
And, as always, the tree looks by far more "3d-ish" in nature, than on this particular bad foto ...
Bought this one on the trophy in Genk/Belgium this year.
A Juniperus Sabina-yamadori. I consider this material as quite promising on the one hand,
but very difficult on the other hand.
This because of the lower, very elongated branch with almost no green on it.
Picture number #3 shows a virtual as a study of my designing-vision.
Picture 1:
Picture 2
Virtual
One day my wife and me went through a tree-nursery in our hood.
My wife suddenly discovered a nice looking Chamacyparis obtusa nana.
She asked me to style this tree for a bonsai.
Well, through a few detours this Hinoki finaly found its way into my garden.
In January 2022 I styled this tree as shown in posting of 22th Jan. of 2022 on this blog.
In April 2023 I enhanced the design of the tree a bit.
Pictures:
No major changes so far. The tree has still to establish himself into his pot ...
I am satisfied, that the tree made it so well through the wintermonth and the relativly cold springtime.
Now I am waiting for new grows. We need strength in that Chamacyparis obtusa ...
Here a short update of my oldest Bonsai.
After a long, long time this tree is almost ready to be maintained just by using cutting techniques.
cutting techniques. The pot could be a bit larger.
