ianb

Interesting that this thread should pop up again as I just got back from an intensive carving weekend with Graham Potter from the UK (he's done some excellent carving seen in Bonsai Europe). The main focus was to study trees in nature to see how the deadwood is formed and try to emulate these forms in the trees.

Anyway it was a great weekend and reinforced my initial feelings about carving across the grain.

I'll try to dig out some pics in a few days.

Cheers
Ian