Stately bonsai elegance. Here’s the original caption for this photo “The customer wanted the trunk brown and the quickest way was to paint it. This is my first time using paint on my sculptures and I’m very happy with the results.” The person who wrote that is Ken To, the creator of the bonsai wire-sculptures that you see here and in several previous Bark posts. You can find even more of Ken’s exquisite little delights on his website, on facebook and on deviantART.
Ken To’s marvelous miniature wire bonsai sculptures just keep getting better. And now, because Ken has started using paint, can we look forward to an exciting explosion of color? Not that many of Ken’s little gems aren’t already colorful, still the possibilities….
Going rafting. Just in case you’re new to this game, this one depicts a raft style bonsai. Here’s an explanation.
Flowering bonsai. Color can be achieved without paint, though you can imagine the painstaking precision involved. Nice pot.
More flowering cascading trees. I wonder if Ken had Azaleas in mind when he made this one and the one immediately above.
At a glance it looks like the tree in this forest are in a line. But if you could look from the side, you’d see how they are staggered. In general, I find this style forest, with moss or grass covered open space in the front, very inviting. I guess that’s the point.
All of Ken’s sculptures are small, but this one is practically microscopic. I don’t think I’d ever have the patience or the dexterity to do something like this.
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Gorgeous little gems.
I think showing Ken’s wire sculptures on BONSAIBARK is out of place. To me it is like putting paintings on velvet on a fine art painting website. There is so much real bonsai to learn about instead of featuring these little wire sculptures with painted features.
Instead, how about exploring some different and odd bonsai subjects that are REALLY bonsai from Viet Nam or Australia instead of sculptures? This too would be controversial, but it would be real, living bonsai.
Ken’s work is absolutely amazing -such detail and precision on such a small scale. I have been a big fan and admirer of his bonsai wire sculptures for a while now-and he’s a really nice guy to boot.
Hi Doug,
Thanks for your feedback. In reply I guess it’s just: I like Ken’s sculptures.
We have featured bonsai from Viet Nam and Aus. Many times in fact. If you go the search function at the bottom of the blog, you can look them up.
Nice work as always. I enjoy all of the Bonsai related art forms.