We just received this from François Jeker. François is the author Bonsai Aesthetics and is an accomplished bonsai artist and teacher. He is particularly known for his skills in creating, carving and aging of deadwood. Bonsai Today featured a series of his articles on the topic (issues 103, 104 and 105). The bad news is that two of these issue are out of print. The good news is that we have been posting excerpts here on Bonsai Bark and plan on posting more in the future. I particularly like his article on aging deadwood which was featured in July of last year (see images below).
François’ message en français
Bonjour à toutes et à tous. Ci-joint le résultat du premier stage 2010. Encore un bon moment et de belles émotions. Amitiés,
Rough English, courtesy of FreeTranslantion.com
Hello to all and everyone, Here is the result of the first training 2010. Again a good moment and of beautiful emotions. Yours in friendship.
Bonsai Aesthetics en español
Tenemos Bonsai Aesthetics en español y en ingles.
François’ drawings showing aging progression of deadwood. This originally appeared in Bonsai Today issue 103 (out of print) and also appears in an earlier Bonsai Bark post.