Turning Water into Wine

[A Random User]

As some of you know, my Tea made it up to Nationals... but I did not. And being a little on the annoyed side seeing I would like to see a picture of my tree...

I figured I get back to work today, turning a piece of crappy material into something nice.
Still have quite a bit of work to do yet, but took a break for a moment and decided to post up some before and after pictures so far on this shimpaku...

So... Before




And After, so far...



I do as well have a lot of step by step photos, I could post up of the process if anyone would be interested...
Although, once I started doing finer work, I forgot about the camera. But, I do have a lot of pics of the main construction.

 

[M. Frary]

I could post up of the process if anyone would be interested.

I like looking at the first photo and looking at the second to see what and how you did what you did. I like to figure out how you did what you did by puzzling it out. If you go and pump out a step by step pictorial it takes away the mystery.
I think it's a good exercise to look at the raw material and the worked on results to get your mind visualizing how to do this. What did he leave? See how that branch is bent the way it is to make it shorter? What happens next? Those kinds of things.

 

[Eric Group]

It looks like the very top right was left unwired, you thinking of removing it? Might make a better tree if you did...

Looks good SAM!

 

[sorce]

good exercise

I fully agree!

The more you look at it yourself the more you understand.

Nice!

Sorce

 

[Cypress187]

Is that your living-room?, or just a hobby / relax-room? I love the Buddha.

 

[Tieball]

Excellent work on the tree. May just be peculiar to me....I like seeing progression photos.....with some words on what was done and why.

 

[A Random User]

It looks like the very top right was left unwired, you thinking of removing it? Might make a better tree if you did...

Looks good SAM!

Thanks, I appreciate it!

As far as the top, I just had not gotten to it yet, and was at the moment a little uncertain with where I wanted to go with it... so I decided to start some of the rest of the tree and the smaller tree and let it tell me what should happen. I really liked the right upward reaching path that it was already on, and had planned on using this direction... and if it was just a single tree, I would of probably kept this, and just fine wired it. However... both trees gotta somewhat appear as though they belong together, so I went with the following...




Was really busy taking care of some other business today, so did not get as much done as I would of liked...
Still have a whole bunch of fine detail work and cleaning as well as sorting... But getting closer, should be finished tomorrow.

 

[Josh88]

I was sucked into learning about and working on this fabulous art-form about a year and a half ago, and have been reading through threads on this site voraciously for the last few weeks. Finally my first post... I absolutely love these before and after pics, and have saved them to my desktop at work to look at them side by side to get a sense of the vision of a seasoned and talented eye. This is such an amazing example of what can be done with some nursery stock. I feel like I've learned so much just from looking at what you have done here. Thank you to all of you B-Nutters for sharing your knowledge and amazing work. Cheers
Josh

 

[defra]

looking great i Love the before and after picture it shows a giant leap forward to a great future bonsai in Just two pics!

 

[M. Frary]

I was sucked into learning about and working on this fabulous art-form about a year and a half ago, and have been reading through threads on this site voraciously for the last few weeks. Finally my first post... I absolutely love these before and after pics, and have saved them to my desktop at work to look at them side by side to get a sense of the vision of a seasoned and talented eye. This is such an amazing example of what can be done with some nursery stock. I feel like I've learned so much just from looking at what you have done here. Thank you to all of you B-Nutters for sharing your knowledge and amazing work. Cheers
Josh

Welcome to the crazy!

 

[Josh88]

Welcome to the crazy!

Thanks for the kind welcome! It's good to be here in crazy.

 

[herzausstahl]

I like looking at the first photo and looking at the second to see what and how you did what you did. I like to figure out how you did what you did by puzzling it out. If you go and pump out a step by step pictorial it takes away the mystery.
I think it's a good exercise to look at the raw material and the worked on results to get your mind visualizing how to do this. What did he leave? See how that branch is bent the way it is to make it shorter? What happens next? Those kinds of things.

I kind of like the idea of both. But perhaps the process as a second thread assuming Stacey has time for that. I think both ways help members who are at different experience levels. Just a before/after for a more experienced member like yourself, even a noob like me. But then the step by step can help me too. It can show if I analyzed the process correctly & also see how to perform some of the steps (raffia, bending, etc) I might be as familiar with. Thanks again @sawgrass for posting these, I'm finding a lot as I delve into the older threads.

 

[M. Frary]

I kind of like the idea of both. But perhaps the process as a second thread assuming Stacey has time for that. I think both ways help members who are at different experience levels. Just a before/after for a more experienced member like yourself, even a noob like me. But then the step by step can help me too. It can show if I analyzed the process correctly & also see how to perform some of the steps (raffia, bending, etc) I might be as familiar with. Thanks again @sawgrass for posting these, I'm finding a lot as I delve into the older threads.

Stacy is a wealth of information.
He is a great bonsai practitioner and a killer artist.