YouTube - Walter Pall in Croatia - demonstration

dorothy7774

Marija,

thank you for posting the videos.Walter did some very good basic and therefore important stylingwork.
I would also like to emphasize that the interpreter did a great and absolutely authentic translation job!Many might not know,but Croatian is my second main language..
Hope Walter could help you further with the question on carving tools.

Greetings to Croatia,

dorothy schmitz

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marija hajdic

Thanks for helping me ...

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EarthgirlOK

thanks for posting this.

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Walter_Pall

Many have seen this demo on youtube. Some were disappointed. They could not understand why I had ended up ith such an ugly tree. Well, this is very often what one has to do in bonsai to get a very good looking tree in the end. It was the purpose of the demonstration to show this.

Here the recent development. This will give you some hope. But there are still about 5 to 10 years to go.

1) tree as after the demo in Croatia
2) vision
3) tree as of August 2007

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PeterW

I seen the youtube videos and found them very educational! I only wish that more artists would do it. Here in Australia, we dont get the opportunities that others get in Europe and USA etc to do workshops and see demos with many masters. Its a great way to serve education to budding bonsai enthusiasts. Please, keep it up! Great work.
P.s When are you coming to Australia to visit? We have Robert Steven coming in November......cant wait!
Regards
Peter.

EarthgirlOK

Thank you for the update on this tree! I watched the demo too, and it gave me more courage to do similar work with some of my trees. So the update is encouraging...mebbe my trees will be better for it in the next few growing seasons!

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marija hajdic

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Walter_Pall

In spring 2007 I did a demo in Croatia. This later on became quite famous, on youtube etc. During the demo I said a few times loud and clear: "Don't worry if this tree looks ugly at the moment. It has to look like this in order to shine in a couple of years. I have to take off quite a few branches and I have to cut them much shorter than you thought. I want to leave room for growth so that with new growth the hornbeam has good proportions.." I heard afterwards that a few very smart people thought that I had not done justice to thr material, that the tree looked lousy after the demo, and that there were much better options within the material. So where are all these smart persons? What are their trees looking like only one year later? Did they learn something? Or did they just protect theirr misconceptions about bonsai development?
Anyway, see what this hornbeam (Carpinus orientalis) looks like today. and then in the virtual with a possible new pot. Don't forget that this is only fourteen months after the demonstrations. In a couple of years this will be good enough to go to any exhibit.

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best regards
Walter Pall
http://walter-pall.de
I don't design bonsai, I design trees.
Tradition is not the custody of ashes but the propagation of fire.
NEW: The endless bonsai diary
http://walter-pall-bonsai.blogspot.com/

SiNguyen

Wow! you do great work Walter! It is good enough for an exhibit now. But you have to thank the caretaker of the tree too! If he/she had killed it after your demo, then you will be blamed for chopping it back too hard right? In Southern California, I have seen some good demo trees at shows that were taken home by the lucky raffle winner who then promptly killed the tree then go on to blame the demo artist.

Thanks for showing your work with us here Walter!

Si Nguyen