Walter Pall
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Now it is finished - sort of.
Oriental hornbeam #37
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AlainK
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I don't like it so much... 
Just joking : I rather like it.
Just joking : I rather like it.
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InstilledChaos
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This is a truly beautiful tree. Your way of capturing the natural feel of a tree is unsurpassed. The one spot that kind of draws my eye is pictured below.
To me it’s distracting from the rest of the composition and I am wondering if it is something you are working to minimize (and how??), or if this is a sort of “ugly tree” feature that you may try to highlight and make work despite it being traditionally undesirable for its heaviness and inverse taper?
To me it’s distracting from the rest of the composition and I am wondering if it is something you are working to minimize (and how??), or if this is a sort of “ugly tree” feature that you may try to highlight and make work despite it being traditionally undesirable for its heaviness and inverse taper?
Walter Pall
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Katharsus, I do not design bonsai, I design trees. Therefore it is not always a good idea to judge my creations with bonsai rules. But you are right this spot could be better while it does not really bother me. Good news is that with continuing what I am already douing for the next ten to twenty years it will disappear by itself. Inverse taper can be corrected by thickening. Thickening happens with sap flow from the top, from the leaves. The more leaves the more sap flow, the more thickening. With the hedge pruning method you have it all.
InstilledChaos
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Thank you for your insight Walter. Your naturalistic style is certainly inspiring. I especially enjoy this tree/pot combination.
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Contrary to general opinion it is not the aim of bonsai art to present a beatiful tree. The aim is to get a tree to be impressive, have soul, charcter. Just beauty it is at best craft and often kitsch. You can impress with beauty, but only if there goes soul with it. Too often beauty is in the way of good bonsai.
Thank you!
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Awesome tree Walter!
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