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Imperial Masterpiece
If I had to get rid of nearly all my trees but could pick one from your collection to have, it would be this one. Beautiful work..
Beautiful. Very inspiring. Love the carving. You did it yourself? If so, you must have a lot of carving experience...?
You fooled me... That is impressive.I do not have a lot of experience with carving
I always forget that this is Japanese Maple, not Amur. It's just so distinctive and stands apart from the Japanese maples we commonly see. This is a good thing!
Sergio, in looking at the before and after picture the hollow on the right trunk looks smaller. Is that just due to the rotation of the tree or did you get callus to grow over and shrink the size a bit?
Really fantastic piece this, small detail but i noticed you've positioned some twigging into the negative area in the centre, think this enhances the overall image, ramification looks great.
Do YOU like it? You put a ? behind it so maybe you're not sure... I am not sold on it to be completely honest.
I think it's the shape of the pot that I am not loving almost more than the texture. If it were straight sided instead of narrower at the bottom? Or rounded rectangle? Maybe it's the proportion, just something to me feels not quite right. Maybe the texture is just too strong as well combined with the other things.
But then you always seem to find the right way with your trees, so I am probably wrong here.
That tree is really something else. I like the contrast from one trunk to the other. The same hollows and other elements are in both trunks, but the scale is different.
I smell what you're cooking, but it just misses for me.