Front view of a freshly trimmed and wired Scot’s pine (Pinus sylvestris) by Luis Vallejo. This photo and the others shown here are from Luis’ facebook feed.
It’s not often we find good bonsai technique photos on facebook, so I got a little excited when I stumbled across a whole bunch of great photos of a freshly wire Scot’s pine by Luis Vallejo and thought you might like to see them too. I won’t attempt to show all of Luis’ photos in the series. You can make the short journey to his facebook feed if you’d like to see them.
Before we start, I think it is worth noting how thoroughly Luis cleaned up the old needles before he started wiring. If you’ve ever tried to wire a tree with unnecessary shoots and old foliage all over the place, you know how important it is it to clean up before you start.
Back view. On most good bonsai the back could just as easily be the the front. This one is no exception.
Left branch. This is a good shot of the classic under-over U-shape wiring where one branch forks into two.
Left branch from below.
Right branch from below.
Whole tree (almost) from down under.
Fine wiring on the right branch from above. This gives you a pretty good idea of just how thoroughly Luis trimmed and cleaned before wiring.
Whole tree from the top. A shot you don’t see that often.
Where it all started. Gives you a good idea of what a talented bonsai artist can do given enough time.
This is not the first time Luis Vallejo’s bonsai have turned up on Bark and it won’t be the last either. Here’s a link to some earlier posts that feature his bonsai.
It seems to be a post of the LV Bonsai Museum, but I am not sure that is Luis himself who wired it as it is written in the post. I would say that the most probable thing is that this would the work of Julio Cano or Mario Komsta….