This excellent bonsai drawing looks like a Japanese black pine, but that’s just a guess. As you can see, it and the others in this post are by Eduardo Guedes. Another worthy facebook find. (Note: the copy below is from an earlier Bonsai Bark post, but the drawings in this post are all first timers).
You can do it!
It’s vacation time here, so I’ll borrow a little copy from last year: We’ve featured bonsai drawings way back in the early years of Bonsai Bark (2009). We still think it’s a good idea and suggest you try your hand at it. Contrary to the pervasive poverty mentality many of us have about these things, you can do it if you just take your time. The drawings (you can call them sketches if that helps) don’t have to be perfect, and with almost any genuine attempt, you’ll learn something about your bonsai.
Not a bad rendition (note for none native English speakers: “Not a bad” often means excellent). Also by Eduardo.
Another Japanese black pine? Speaking of, the 2nd printing of our Japanese pine book is due in two or three weeks.
I’m not quite sure what the exact species of the first pine is. However, I do know that the original picture is made by Andy Rutledge during the 2002 Taikan-Ten exhibition in Japan and is available as a high resolution desktop wallpaper through http://bonsaijournal.com/desktops.php -> Cascade pine.
Regards,
Ferry
Sketch may help to visualize our imagination in the bonsai design process.
For the first time, during our recent bonsai contest in Madura island, we introduced the sketch contest of bonsai design.
We displayed 2 yamadori, then the contest participants made sketches of design. We were not judging the quality of the sketch, but the design idea and the possibility from the yamadori.
Our objective was to stimulate their power of observation on material and their imagination of future design.
Many different design ideas came from the same materials, very interesting and educative…
Thanks for the lead Ferry,
I just looked it up and it’s a great photo of a great tree.