Pinus mugo 2006

Hi all friends.

The pine was first planted in a container in 1974 (seedling 5 years old).I have received it in spring 2006.
pic. 1 spring 2006

first styling - autum 2006

after first styling - autum 2006

virtual 2006

autum 2007

summer 2009etai

February 2010 - before restyling

detail back-side


Mugo after restyling 2010


Pavel

more pict.: http://www.bonsaivigi.cz/fotoalbum/tvarovani-a-vyvoj---styling-and-development/pinus-mugo-__gnom__-2006

Great work. I first thought you planted some seedlings in with it. Very innovative. Keep them coming

In my opinion your use of the back branch is clever and believable. I'm not too sure about the ten-jin however. Seems incongruous a little from the pics, as there doesn't seem to be any other significant jin or shari on the tree. Perhaps it is also working against the downward motion of what is essentially a cascading branch, pulling in different directions. The image looks better to me if I cover up the jin.

Smithy wrote:Great work. I first thought you planted some seedlings in with it. Very innovative. Keep them coming

The same ! I also thought you had planted seedlings, or made a graft. Beautiful result.

I also think that the jin may not be necessary, it distracts from the overall design, especially the "multi-trunk" feel...

that pot is very nice!!...matches well with the tree
great work on the tree
andy

how do people learn to do this?

bobby little wrote:how do people learn to do this?

Hi Bobby, the answer is you cant!
like all great Artists/Artisans,musicians, sculptors etc etc you are born with the gift, admittedly! basics can
be taught & learned but the bottom line is you either got it or you aint, I know people in my trade that have
been practicing for 35years and still no further on , at the same time this should not stop or discourage anyone from enjoying or being part of it

Again really nice work Pavel

Alex

Hi all.
Thank you very much for nice replies.

Today I removed the jin. I think the composition is better.

Pavel

Hi Pavel, nice work. I think it looks better without the jin.

The back branch that you bent down; did you (or will you) approach graft it to the base of the trunk?

Roger

Pavel Slovák wrote:Hi all.
... I think the composition is better.

Much better without jin! Excellent idea with the lowered first branch.

wow, I really like this composition
great work

Justin

Again Pavel, great work, sensitive and well executed... and... its small!

bobby little wrote:how do people learn to do this?

Alex is... in principal correct 'the bottom line is you either got it or you ain't' but there is no substitute for practice, practice, practice, going to a good teacher, meeting with like minded and radical thinkers. How else will you discover whether 'you either got it or you ain't'

I could be an amazing piano player but I have never actually sat down and attempted to play.

Again Alex is spot on "I know people in my trade that have been practicing for 35years and still no further on" I too know the very same folk, its not that the simply cannot do it, its usually because they are in their comfort zone and that is fine for them.

If you reach contentment you have ceased learning.

Pavel,
First, let me congratulate you on an exceptional job; the balance and composition is first rate. The trick with the first back branch is ingenious, but the illusion is lost when viewing the tree in the round. Can this branch be lowered further, and buried (with appropriate techniques to root), and when rooted eliminate it from the mother tree? This is after all the illusion you have created from the front.

In the long run, the back branch lowering technique will keep it from being all it can be.

Luis Fontanills wrote:Pavel,
First, let me congratulate you on an exceptional job; the balance and composition is first rate. The trick with the first back branch is ingenious, but the illusion is lost when viewing the tree in the round. Can this branch be lowered further, and buried (with appropriate techniques to root), and when rooted eliminate it from the mother tree? This is after all the illusion you have created from the front.

In the long run, the back branch lowering technique will keep it from being all it can be.

I disagree. You are assuming that the purpose is to fool the viewer into believing there are multiple trunks, and it does somewhat appear that way, although as you point out the illusion is not perfect. However to someone who has lived where there is heavy snow, the idea that a lower branch could be pulled down in this way is completely believable and that it is completely sufficient for it not to look like a true multiple trunked tree, but simply what it is.

Hi all friends.

Thank you for your positive response and comments.
re: Roger and Luis - thanks for the reminder. But it's the way he wrote Velodog. I do not want to graft a branch or to form roots.Composition is a fallen, broken lower branch. I need to improve the branch of the strain to come down. Then the composition should be improved.

Pavel

If you reach contentment you have ceased learning.

i like it! in bonsai we have to have commitment... you must think every day to improve the art. live with the nature to realize that you made part of it...know how each specie lives in a pot, care about... too much phylosofi, sorry!

Pavel
I really enjoy all the trees you post, and you really have (it seems) lots of trees. How many trees do you have? Can you post a picture of where/how you keep them all?
Jaco

Jaco Kriek wrote:Pavel
I really enjoy all the trees you post, and you really have (it seems) lots of trees. How many trees do you have? Can you post a picture of where/how you keep them all?
Jaco

Hi Jaco.
Thank you very much for pozitiv replies.

Trees do not accurately counted. Some trees here on the forum are a friend.Just working on them. (It is stated in the post)
The sample some photos of trees in my house (Autum 2009).


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Pavel

more pict.: http://www.bonsaivigi.cz/fotoalbum/nezarazene/podzim-2009

Hi all.

Today I removed all the wires.

Before (with wires)


after (without wires)





Pavel
more pict.: http://www.bonsaivigi.cz/fotoalbum/tvarovani-a-vyvoj---styling-and-development/pinus-mugo-__gnom__-2006

I absolutely loved reading and studying the pics in this progression series. I feel like a learned a lot. Thanks for posting it.

Hi all bonsai friends

Today I worked on Pine. I'm pulling needles and tree re-styling.
I think I'm one step further with this Pine.

today before work

after pulling needles

work

back side


today after restyling


Gretings Pavel
more pict.: http://www.bonsaivigi.cz/fotoalbum/tvarovani-a-vyvoj---styling-and-development/pinus-mugo-__gnom__-2006/

Hi Pavel.
Nice work once again. Much better without the jinned apex in my opinion.

Hi Pavel

...ENVY, ENVY and then some inspiration and hope for amateurs like me - given the 2006 material; Something similar can be found in nurseries, even in the danish 'wild' forrests...But the way you control the tree from raw starter-material is awesome

best regards

Hi Pavel

Lovely tree.

Kind regards Yvonne

Beautiful tree, Pavel. I always love your work.

Hope you're well.

Regards.