Peter starting off our Sunday workshop by talking through the trees to be worked on. Still cold outside but going to be an enjoyable day.
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Afternoon Session
Species spotlight on Larch. Peter still in full flow.
School Is In Session
Club school Year 3 up and running. Just a little snow falling but garage heating up nicely. Only one complaining is Michael and he has his feet on the heater 🙂
Spring?
Check out the Spruce in this blog post, absolutely right up my street 🙂
Wayne Schoech, owner of Stone Lantern and well-known to many of you for his popular BonsaiBark blog, visited Portland last week for a four-day wiring immersion. Here are a few photos of his visit:
Great post over on Nichigo Bonsai.
Sometimes things elsewhere look better than what you might have at your own disposal. This can do two things. One is you can become inspired and in turn try to improve your situation, or you can feel defeated and do nothing and long for what is over the proverbial fence.
In terms of Australian bonsai we sometimes look over our fence (or ocean) and long for the material of Japan or the yamadori of America or Europe. Sometimes this inspires but a lot of the time due to Australia’s strict quarantine laws (making importing near impossible) and the fact that most native collectible material is protected by law it instills a feeling of giving up or accepting second best. Myself, after returning from a trip from Japan, have looked over my collection and felt as if I was so far behind that I might as well sell up and take…
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If you are Not, you should be!
If you are not currently following Peter Warren’s blog posts from the Green club and Kokufu Ten, then you should be.
with his usual pithy comments he has been showing us some interesting bonsai both in the exhibition and also on the sales tables at the club.
Here is a selection of the photos he been posting.
Ryan Neil Willowbog Bonsai Demo Video Part 1
I sat down yesterday morning to try and edit the demo day video with Ryan at Willowbog into something shorter without missing out the interesting bits. That proved to be a hard task! Ryan keeps up the commentary, questions, and stories pretty much the whole way thorough! I have therefore got Four parts to share with you totalling 3 1/2 hours of footage! I’ll share as I get them uploaded.
This is a lot of viewing and I know that many will not want to be bothered wading through it, however, others have asked to see the complete session. Down the line I might upload some of the individual learning moments or pearls of wisdom given by Ryan.
I had a nightmare with the video camera and was missing the first few hours of footage but thankfully Phil the fingers had it recorded on our backup/closeup camera and I have edited both together.
Bonsai Eejit 