OK, Newbie question #2.
There seems to be a ton of resources out there for horticulture and technique, and I'm greedily soaking up all I can. I'm having less luck though with the kinds of design principles that drive individual pruning and wiring decisions. I know there a set of traditional style (upright, cascade, windswept, etc.) and that the idiosyncracies of individual material will help dictate what kind of style to pursue. But for people without a strong design background, where did you go to learn to see the inner forms that bonsai practice reveals? What basic principles do you draw on (I'm thinking of things like proportions of branches to trunks, for example.)
All recommendations welcome!
There seems to be a ton of resources out there for horticulture and technique, and I'm greedily soaking up all I can. I'm having less luck though with the kinds of design principles that drive individual pruning and wiring decisions. I know there a set of traditional style (upright, cascade, windswept, etc.) and that the idiosyncracies of individual material will help dictate what kind of style to pursue. But for people without a strong design background, where did you go to learn to see the inner forms that bonsai practice reveals? What basic principles do you draw on (I'm thinking of things like proportions of branches to trunks, for example.)
All recommendations welcome!