Japanese larch

[JudyB]

Hi my name is Judy, and I'm addicted to wire....

First pic is from 3? years ago, I think...

 

[rockm]

Tree has potential, but too many branches for the long trunk...

Good onya for having the patience to wire all that.

 

[october]

Hello Judy, nice larch with good potential. If I may.. I think the design would be served better if you were to remove the first short branch and shorten the main strong swooping branch. Also, the third branch is coming from an inside curve. Removing it would make the tree more balanced and less busy.. Just my opinion.

Here is a virt.

Rob

 

[crust]

Larch wiring is a special experience (as you know) and larches require alot of it. I have been wiring larches every weekend since December. I wire them in the winter because in the spring I am too busy--they don't seem to mind. I have too many. Today I wired a very strange larch art piece I adopted from Lenz: A Greek style bronze scupture of a standing man, layed horizontal on a slate slab with a larch growing from his groin enclasping his torso. The modest trunk rises gently then separates into a spray of arched larch branches. The key with the wiring was to avoid wiggles and maintain the fountainlike arched branches. No picture included because it may offend. I really like the piece despite its anthropmorphic brazeness. It really seems serene to me. Anyways more larch wiring tomorrow.

 

[JudyB]

Tree has potential, but too many branches for the long trunk...

Good onya for having the patience to wire all that.

This I know, but am leaving most of them for now to fatten that trunk up. I'll probably cut them off in a couple more years. In the meantime, more wiring practice for me!

 

[JudyB]

Hello Judy, nice larch with good potential. If I may.. I think the design would be served better if you were to remove the first short branch and shorten the main strong swooping branch. Also, the third branch is coming from an inside curve. Removing it would make the tree more balanced and less busy.. Just my opinion.

Rob

Thanks Rob,
I agree it is too busy, and I thank you for the nice virt. Something to look forward to in a couple years.

 

[JudyB]

Larch wiring is a special experience (as you know) and larches require alot of it. I have been wiring larches every weekend since December. I wire them in the winter because in the spring I am too busy--they don't seem to mind. I have too many. Today I wired a very strange larch art piece I adopted from Lenz: A Greek style bronze scupture of a standing man, layed horizontal on a slate slab with a larch growing from his groin enclasping his torso. The modest trunk rises gently then separates into a spray of arched larch branches. The key with the wiring was to avoid wiggles and maintain the fountainlike arched branches. No picture included because it may offend. I really like the piece despite its anthropmorphic brazeness. It really seems serene to me. Anyways more larch wiring tomorrow.

Indeed. I love wiring larch actually, (thankfully). Sounds like an interesting piece of art. I'd like to see it...

 

[crust]

Indeed. I love wiring larch actually, (thankfully). Sounds like an interesting piece of art. I'd like to see it...

I will send you a private shot my dear.

 

[amkhalid]

I will send you a private shot my dear.

I think I know the one you're talking about... but just in case can I see it too?

 

[crust]

OK... just a peak.

 

[edprocoat]

I actually love the tree with all the branches, it looks like a real tree. If it were mine I would cut off the two topmost branches at the trunk just above the third branch from the top, I am counting the two at teh top as one branch as they look like a "y" of one branch. It would shorten it just enough in my eye to give the trunk a thicker appearance. My advice is usually worth every penny you paid for it though....


ed

 

[edprocoat]

Larch wiring is a special experience (as you know) and larches require alot of it. I have been wiring larches every weekend since December. I wire them in the winter because in the spring I am too busy--they don't seem to mind. I have too many. Today I wired a very strange larch art piece I adopted from Lenz: A Greek style bronze scupture of a standing man, layed horizontal on a slate slab with a larch growing from his groin enclasping his torso. The modest trunk rises gently then separates into a spray of arched larch branches. The key with the wiring was to avoid wiggles and maintain the fountainlike arched branches. No picture included because it may offend. I really like the piece despite its anthropmorphic brazeness. It really seems serene to me. Anyways more larch wiring tomorrow.

I used to have a dream similiar to that, well, I will spare the details...

ed

 

[JudyB]

I used to have a dream similiar to that, well, I will spare the details...

ed

TMI ed, TMI....

Haven't settled on the apex of the tree, leaving things to grow up there for possible jins, and options. I'll see how thick the trunk gets in the next couple of years before I resolve that issue.

 

[JudyB]

Just a quick spring shot

Forming the brushes, my favorite stage. A little green glimmer of spring.

 

[Bill S]

Love to see those little green shaving brushes.

Good job Judy.

 

[ghues]

Hi Judy,
For us also....the larch are one of the first to shown real signs of spring and it looks like our larch are at the same stage.....interesting ....as I'm at the 50th parallel on the Pacific north west.
Cheers Graham