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bonsaiTALK Master Craftsman
Join Date: May-2005
Country: The Netherlands
Posts: 944
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Originally Posted by wabashene
Hans,
Most excellent material you lucky fella - unlike the Dutch football team.
:-)
Me being the world's greatest bonsai critic, an intermediate practitioner and a bit conservative in my bonsai taste, find pic 5 and 6 a bit of a concern visually.
Big "C" curve with what I would consider a "pocket" branch.
I appreciate that Yamadori more or less "au naturel" is/are "de rigeur" at the moment but I do think that one way or the other may result in a better image.
Just my first thoughts.
TimR
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Hi TimR,
That is funny, would you believe you actually made me just now go outside to have a look at that tree, and yes you could name it a pocked branch, i honestly had not noticed it. This most sound strange to you all, bud let me explain: with this kind off material i go purely on instinct, doing what i feel is beautiful, exciting, special. Although this branch origin lies in the so calt pocket, in my view, it is importance to brake up some of that negative space, and the help it brings to the circular movement off the overall shape outweighs that fact in my personal designers opinion. You all might know I'm not so much bothered by rules, when creating this kind of bonsai, that is probably why i had to go out to see if your were right. Bare with me for now and look again at the tree when i post the result off the styling in the Fall. I truly believe that some (faults?) are of Les importance than a overall (good?) design. Maybe I'm wrong, but maybe I'm not, and then the tree becomes even more interesting because it has broken some rules! There is much beauty in imperfection.
Thanks for making me think (it's been a wile!),
Hans. |