PETER

Ultimate success largely depends on the quality of the starting material - that is soon clear to anyone who is seriously starting to engage with the bonsai art. Peter came back to the studio, he brought the pine, which we've already analyzed at last year's workshop. This is an example of poor material. Peter collected it in the early stage of his bonsai path, when he not yet developed the taste for material. Pine has no tappering, the trunk is twisted in one long arc, at least the branches are useful. But despite of not promising tree, we did not give up :-)

 

Da je končni uspeh v bonsajizmu v veliki meri odvisen od kvalitete začetnega materijala, je kmalu jasno vsakomur, ki se resneje začne ukvarjati z umetnostjo. Peter se je v atelje vrnil z borom, ki sva ga analizirala že na lanski delavnici. Primer slabega materijala. Peter ga je izkopal še na začetku svoje bonsajske poti, ko okusa za materijal še ni imel izostrenega. Bor nima ožanja, deblo je zvito v en dolg lok; vsaj veje so kolikor toliko uporabne. A kljub neobetajočemu drevesu, se nisva dala :-)

 

 

Pine as arrived to workshop last year

 

The first idea has been to lean the pine even more, but this would emphasise te ugly bow even more. Instead, we left tree in the current position, the bow was corrected with bending. Then the crown was re-styled and for now we're squeezed quite a lot out of the tree .

 

Prva ideja je celo bila, da bi bor še bolj nagnila, a s tem bi grd lok prišel še bolj do izraza. Namesto nagiba sva drevo pustila v dosedanji poziciji, lok pa razbila s krivljenjem. Potem je prišlo na vrsto še urejanje krošnje in za zdaj sva iz drevesa iztisnila kar veliko.

 

Pine after first re-styling

 

Maybe Peter will even think about shortening the lower cloud in the future. He has enough time to think about until next step!

 

Mogoče bo Peter v bodočnosti razmislil celo o krajšanju spodnjega oblačka. Časa za razmišljanje ima do naslednjega koraka dovolj!

 

Virtual without lower cloud

 

Completely different has been work on Carpinus. Again, this is not an excellent material, but nevertheless much better than pine. It has a good nebari, nice narrowing  and in the upper part it has a beautiful movement .

 

Povsem drugačno je bilo delo na navadnem gabru. Tudi to ni vrhunski materijal, a veliko boljši, kot bor. Ima zadovoljiv nebari, lepo ožanje in v zgornjem delu lepo gibanje.

 

Carpinus before first step

 

Pruning, wiring, a few corrections and the first step was made ​​!

 

Obrezovanje, žičenje, še nekaj popravkov in prvi korak je storjen! 

 

Peter adjusting a branch

 

Carpinus after first step