You Were the Judge & Good Things Happened

We have a winning judge Remember our You Be the Judge & Good Things Will Happen Contest? The one where we were going to pick the short and sweet judges comments (on our Bonsai Art Contest) that we liked the most and award the winner a $30 gift certificate to Stone Lantern? Well, after carefully deliberating, we have a winning judge. His name is Matt Cooke (Leland Garrett’s short and sweet comments were a close second, and we very much enjoyed Al Polito’s and Ken To’s not so short comments. There were others we liked too, but that’s enough for … Continue reading You Were the Judge & Good Things Happened

Another Bonsai Drawing by Patrick Giacobbe

If you paid attention to our recent Bonsai Art Contest, you’ll remember that Patrick Giacobbe won first prize with his Graphite on Bristol board drawing. Here’s another Graphite on Bristol board drawing that Patrick submitted (we only accepted one entry per person, which explains why you didn’t see this then). Stay tuned for our next contest We’re going to start a bonsai art photography contest soon. We’ll be looking for artistic photos of bonsai or of trees in nature. Stay tuned for details.

Bonsai Art Contest: Plenty of Winners

The winner. Patrick Giacobbe’s Bonsai Design. Graphite on Bristol board. A closely bunched field (with one exception) First place was no contest; Patrick won going away with 73 points. After that, things got much tighter. Second place (see below) received 34 points, and third was a two way tie with 27 points each. How the judges voted Altogether thirty one people decided to judge. Each judge assigned nine points. This means there were 279 total points assigned. If you do the math you’ll see that those who didn’t finish in the money received 118 points. Put another way, everyone was … Continue reading Bonsai Art Contest: Plenty of Winners

Sixth Entry $100 Bonsai Art Contest

Bonsai Design by Patrick Giacobbe. Graphite on bristol board. It’s not too late for your entry! Send us yours and we’ll show the world what you are up to, and you just might win a $60. (or $30. or $10.) Gift Certificate to Stone Lantern. Contest details here

Another Fearless Bonsai Warrior

This Juniperus chinensis parsonii, that started as an urban yamadori in 2007 (height 26″), was submitted by Patrick Giacobbe. In addition to this submission, Patrick has contributed to Bonsai Bark with his comments on a bonsai that was submitted by John Romano. Bunjin or not bunjin? The pot and the almost branchless trunk with its twisted unconventional lines suggest a bunjin (literati) style tree. However the heavy top is unbunjin-like, and the tree is planted on one side of its round pot, rather than near the center as you normally find. None of this is necessarily a problem, you are … Continue reading Another Fearless Bonsai Warrior

A Reader’s Critique and a Small Exception

Patrick Giacobbe was kind enough to send this along with some comments (my dream of a more interactive blog is slowly dawning). It’s his take on a photo that was submitted by John Romano that appears in an earlier post (Be A Fearless Bonsai Warrior – 9/24/09). To clarify, the tree is John’s and the superimposed lines and the comments that follow are Patrick’s (edited just a bit by yours truly – I had to key it in anyway as text was sent as part of the image). Dear John (from Patrick) John, no need to apologize for the tree. … Continue reading A Reader’s Critique and a Small Exception