Looking for a good book on styling bonsai.

chriso383

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Im new to this. Im looking for a good book on the process styling a bosai (maples specifically).
Im half way through "principles of bonsai designs" by David De Groot. It's and exelent book. I starting to understand what makes the design of a bonsai ideal or not, But I feel like I need something that explains how to achieve the desired results. Im looking for something that explains the styling process somewhat like these photos.

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What more do you need? Honestly, I have five or six books now and none of them go beyond just about what you're showing here.
I figured I have the basics, I know the techniques, the rest is up to me to be creative with the material I have and the way I ratchet strap wood on it to bend them in weird shapes.
I have to admit, for a while I thought I needed someone to hold my hand and show me step by step on how to design a plant. But it turned out that if you stick to those steps: first branch opposing the lean, left, right, back, apex.. You can whip any tree into a bonsai.
Then I challenged myself by styling a couple trees apex first, just to see if the technique held. It did.
It's craft. Now I got that down, I can mix in my own creativity by building a tree from a single branch and flipping roots over rock into cascades and stuff.
That's something I believe is difficult to put in a book, and probably why you can't find in-depth stuff going deeper than just the craft. This is where your own creative mind should start and take over.

But if you do manage to find such a book, I'm all eyes.
 
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