Honing skills for the nationals

[Barry]

congrats, nice work!

 

[TyroTinker]

Congratulations! Are you happy with how everything turned out? Did it even feel like four hours had past? I bet time flew for everyone in that competition

 

[PABonsai]

Great job. Congratulations!

 

[coh]

Congrats! Tree looks good. Can you tell us a little more about the event? How many participants were there? Was there an audience? Etc.

 

[Cadillactaste]

A feel good happy thread! Well done! Thanks for sharing!

 

[leatherback]

How is the starter material chosen?

They had 10 trees, numbered. And 10 numbered tickets. Every participant (6) took a ticket, which determined the tree you had to work on. All material was from the same grower, of similar quality. Luck of the draw does come to play here.

Looks like you didn’t torture it to bad as well!

Scored 10/10 for keepin health in mind during the work; Impression of the jury was that the tree would have no problems dealing with the work done

Are you happy with how everything turned out

In the time given, yeah, I could not have done better (The jury did not agree, they hated my deadwood work: If you do not know how to do it, don't was the exact remark). And according to the jury I had a major flaw, mixing copper and Alu wire (Which I did not, but they failed to recognize brown copper wire as such..).

The whole thing was in a room separate from the main event. It caused a small audience. So during the last hour an announcement was made that we were finishing up. When I looked up in the last 30 minutes I realized some 50 people were in the room staring at us.

 

[Warpig]

Wow vary nice job! You should be vary proud with both the job you did and everything you have done to lead up too the invite. Congrats.

 

[Woocash]

Luck of the draw does come to play here.

Ah but you still have to know what to do with it!

 

[LanceMac10]

Nicely styled, great work! Cool medallion as well, ya' gotta' drape it from your neck for a couple days.


What happened to the demo trees?

 

[leatherback]

So.. Started working on skills for the Eropean Bonsai Association New Talent Contest, in Tsjech Republic next year. I am expecting to work on a reasonable number of trees till summer 2020.

Today I did this in ~ 4 hours

 

[leatherback]

What happened to the demo trees?

The participants were given their own trees to take home, as a thank you.

 

[leatherback]

back in training for the european heat. No chance of winning though. Just going for not making a fool of yself there

another 3hr first styling

 

[maroun.c]

Amazing work. Well deserved congrats .

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Good. Cleaning up the undersides of each pad will go a long way in this effort. Quick and easy, significant visual impact.

 

[leatherback]

Good. Cleaning up the undersides of each pad will go a long way in this effort. Quick and easy, significant visual impact.

THx. I know about the cleaning the bottom.. Challenge is.. This is nursery stock which they sell this season. So I cannot thin too much, nor take out too much: They should not revert to scale which is a bit of a risk with these first stylings. So I was asked to leave on floppy foliage.

 

[leatherback]

Another practice tree. Plenty challenging!

 

[leatherback]

Bend by bend.. Compressing..

 

[leatherback]

After initial styling. Some more work needed on e.g., the deadwood but .. I needed to keep it for the guy wires!

 

[Arnold_K]

Well,
a very challenging projekt according to the far, far away green of this juniper.
A good lesson for getting something out of nothing ...
Life is not perfect usually ...
'Would like to see more ...

 

[leatherback]

'Would like to see more ...

'fraid it will now be left alone for a bit!