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What importance a title
Join Date: Dec-2003
Location: Glen Rock, PA.
Country: USA
Posts: 675
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My belated introduction and offering
Greetings all, I have been a member for three years and after a comment from the wonderful Ms. Vic last night. I realized I hadn't made a contribution to the community. So here is an offering of a yamadori project I have been working on for the last two and a half years. Hope you enjoy and have a peek into my world.
This juniper (picture 73) was collected in PA. May of 2004. It sat on the corner of a dirt path/road. It appeared to be religously run over by the farmers tractor that farmed this land. All sorts of natural shari and jin. Being such a tasty hunk of Juniper I decided to wrestle it out of thigh high mud.
After repotting it and, a all but to brief rest period. The first order of business was to reduce its wide spread. In the first picture the lower left branch was removed and a jin was created(picture 75).The long upper right hand branch points also to the right was split down the center for approximately 18 inches.(Seen in upper right quadrant of the tree in the first picture). Raffia and wire was applied. Then seperated and repositioned as seen in upper right quadrant of the tree in picture 74.
Last year, general wiring was applied to position branches in there general positions as seen in picture 77.
Early this year I bought a copper mine, and fine wired the rest of the tree.As seen in picture 78. Three days of wiring with #20 and #22 copper will make ones figures ache. After a good season of foliage growth, the foliage was pinched back as seen in Picture 79. Unfortunately the tree decided on its own that it wanted to be a rebel and restyle its self (hate it when the kids act up). The living vein on the front of the tree died back. So to emphazie where the vein use to be I created a texture change on the deadwood. Giving the original shari a rougher texture and polishing what was the living vein. As well as under cutting the vein when carving to make it more pronounced.
Finally ( because I couldn't resist), I played with a virtual of the tree and pot (Picture 79). This spring it goes into a new home. Well thats it my offering. Please feel free to comment...I do enjoy critque, it has a tendency to make one better.
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Tom
Shady Side Bonsai
Bonsai Vault
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Don't flay yourself mentally when you make a mistake or when something bad happens. Just pick yourself up from the god-awful mess you’ve made, say to yourself "I must make a note not to do that again." and go on to the next step, of the hundred or so that remain.
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