HB Smith

Hello everyone,

I just got back from our Dallas Bonsai club meeting with Andy Rutledge being this month's speaker discussing principles from his online book Artistic Foundations of Bonsai Design. I was very excited with the concepts presented. I realized that for the twelve years I've been doing bonsai that I often haphazardly try different things to achieve an artistically cohesive design. Using the artistic principles Andy presented to us, I feel that I can come up with a plan, and then follow this so that I don't have to sit there and try to figure out what's wrong. You know, that feeling you get after you finish designing a tree that something is wrong but can't quite put your finger on it. Andy helped me be able to more quickly put my finger on what's not right, or maybe one day not even have to take this extra step. Kind of like finally starting to see the forest rather than all the trees (no pun intended).

Andy's talk was very educational, entertaining, interactive, thought provoking, and very well received. I with my highest recommendation suggest that all you program chairmen out there consider having Andy talk at your club.

Kind regards,
Howard Smith, President of the Bonsai Society of Dallas

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Sincerely,
Howard

www.BonsaiSmiths.net

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