Demonstration and Workshop: Styling by Dan Barton
During the 1998 Bonsai Summer Camp, Dan Barton gave a talk on styling, followed by a workshop with 'your own tree'.
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Dan explains the phases in the life of tree in nature, and the relationship to the styles we use to imitate these phases.
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Dan talks to the workshop members about each of the trees. |
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Before and after. |
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| The progress of my (new) Ulmus during the workshop. |
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The start material.
A broad trunk with a dominant branch stump which needed to be removed. |
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After I'd done some basic pruning and trimming Dan took a look. |
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Dan works, I take photo's. |
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Chalk lines mark where the trunk will be cut away. |
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After the operation. The woodshavings |
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The final result. |
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