Rodrigo
Shohin
At this month's meeting this weekend with the Bonsai Society of Dallas there was a styling demo by Roy Nagatoshi on a collected olive tree and then I got the pleasure of going to a workshop with him on Procumbens Juniper.
The demo tree wasn't too challenging (Roy's words) because many of the branches were too thick to work with. Regardless, he gave a great demo.
The tree before major work:
It was too tall so he chopped the top off and was going to jin it:
After branch selection:
I didn't get a really good final picture but here is *almost the front:
Since the tree was getting raffled off at the end, he didn't finish all of the jin work so the new owner could do that themselves.
After the demo we had the workshop with him where we all got a Juniper to work on and got to take it home at the end.
Here is the one I got before starting:
After cleaning it out, some branch selection and jin work, here is the finished tree:
The demo tree wasn't too challenging (Roy's words) because many of the branches were too thick to work with. Regardless, he gave a great demo.
The tree before major work:
It was too tall so he chopped the top off and was going to jin it:
After branch selection:
I didn't get a really good final picture but here is *almost the front:
Since the tree was getting raffled off at the end, he didn't finish all of the jin work so the new owner could do that themselves.
After the demo we had the workshop with him where we all got a Juniper to work on and got to take it home at the end.
Here is the one I got before starting:
After cleaning it out, some branch selection and jin work, here is the finished tree:
