Styling literati pines

Hello everybody,

I had nice 2 days of styling 2 of my pines and it was hugely influenced by the book by Zhao Qingquan Literati style penjing.
I have been reading through it the whole winter and was very keen on trying to make me some of those.
It was the first rough styling so there is plenty room for improvement that will be done over time.

Very nice work.  Scots Pines?  My second most favorite tree.

I wish I could read...

Nice transformation Mimo.

That´s right Vance.
Thank you lads

Literati single trunk is evolving...

Najs.   Maybe a little bit too heavy trunk for my taste but najs.   The shadow of the pine on the white wall looks interesting.  A magic of the late afternoon sun?

I like the movement of the accent  men  there...  A slight tilt of  3 inches to the right will be even better to match the movement of the main tree...

Late afternoon sun is da best my friend Vladimír
The composition and style of the tree is actually inspired by my pose when I am waking from bed in the morning with a backpain, nearly had it repeated for the photoshoot after moving that little landscape on my right
That would be a perfect match.

And heavy trunk? Oh come on look at the height of the thing any thinner and it would look it had a heavy crown

Mimo wrote: it would look it had a heavy crown

In fact that was the other point I have planned to raise  

Pines are great tree and I do love them.  

The scent of resin softened by the burning summer sun,  crooked trunks firmly anchored in the crevices of the rocks, the colour of the bark in the late afternoon sun...

hey man... you have a really good eye for movement... whether in your trees or your wake-up posture

i really like what you did with that 3 trunker (or 2+1 composition)

matter of fact, i dig most of what you have taken the time to share with us...

keep on keepin' on !

Thanx Kevin

You still have the Steve Vai Ibanez in the avatar photo?

Mimo wrote:Literati single trunk is evolving...

Very nice tree.

I would maybe bend down the last branch on the right that presently looks like the "leader". I would also remove the first branch on the left (?), it looks too low for a literati in my opinion. The rest of the tree has all the qualities of an excellent literati I think. One the branches that were cut off have been jinned, it will look awesome.

M. Frary wrote: You still have the Steve Vai Ibanez in the avatar photo?

Yes I do, this love is for life sir

Mimo wrote:

M. Frary wrote: You still have the Steve Vai Ibanez in the avatar photo?

Yes I do, this love is for life sir

I play too.
Gibson Lee Paul with EMG 81s
The Kerry King set with the afterburner. I call it the flame thrower.

Nice I have been thinking about Kerry´s Marshall head some time ago but went for Engl Fireball instead ... but I am very happy with it

waittaminit !!!
frary plays a slayer set-up ???

rad !

(btw mike, mimo is one of our newest AAC guys)

AlainK wrote:

Mimo wrote:Literati single trunk is evolving...

Very nice tree.

I would maybe bend down the last branch on the right that presently looks like the "leader". I would also remove the first branch on the left (?), it looks too low for a literati in my opinion. The rest of the tree has all the qualities of an excellent literati I think. One the branches that were cut off have been jinned, it will look awesome.

Thanx for the ideas, but if I bended it down it would look like a hook and I do not like the tops finished as a hook. It is quite common sight among bonsaists here and it looks just awfull I think.
And the lowest branch, that´s what I got from Mr. Quingquan Zhao, he leaves one tiny branch like that on his literati penjings occassionally, I kinda like it

I don't know if you have gone far enough with that literati pine? They bend well.

You have a long straight section at the top that has no taper.  You might improve the tree if you bend it both down and forwards to bring the apex lower:  Something like this:  (sorry not a great drawing that's not my skill - I am a better armchair critic!)

2017-09-20_09-27-32 by BrendanR2012, on Flickr

Literati pine in a pot made by Ivet Mikešová of Atelier Cascada






Works on a tree will continue next year

nice pot match Mimo !!!