Often you came up on a good material which can not be turned into good bonsai in one day. For beginners maybe not easy to understand, but sometime tree must be ugly first to became beautiful in the end. Ugly duck and all that. Work with vision. This was today's lesson for Bojan. We worked on taxus with fine visible veins which will be helpful in creating dead wood in the future. There was more than enough brunches, in fact the only problem was that green part was really to far from trunk.

Velikokrat se zgodi, da v roke dobiš dober materijal, iz katerega pa ne moreš v enem dnevu napraviti dobrega drevesa. Za začetnike morda nerazumljivo, toda včasih mora biti drevo na začetku grdo, da je na koncu lahko lepo. Grdi raček, pa te finte. Delo z vizijo. To je bila tokratna lekcija za Bojana. Delala sva na tisi z dobro izrazitimi žilami, ki bodo v prihodnje omogočale več suhega lesa. Vej je bilo več kot dovolj, tako, da sva lahko izbirala, pravzaprav edina tžava tega materijala je bila ta, da je bilo zelenje tokrat res predaleč od debla.

Some carving and wiring, we made a skeleton from which will nice bonsai develop in a year or two. Now the time must do it's job. We let the sun close to the trunk, so new brunches will grow and then we'll create a crown. Thicker brunches will stay in position we wired them in the meantime.

Nekaj rezkanja in nekaj žičenja, v bistvu sva napravila okostje iz katerega bo v letu ali dveh nastal simpatičen bonsaj. Zdaj mora čas napraviti svoje -  iz brstov bliže deblu, kamor sva spustila svetlobo, bodo zagnale nove vejice iz katerih bo potem mogoče do podrobnosti oblikovati krošnjo. Debelejše bodo v tem času obstale v gibanju, ki sva ga jim dala.

Miha joined us and morning was over in blink of the eye! I love bonsaism! Tomorrow I'll go to Izola, there is new creative day waiting for me!

Pridružil se nama je še Miha in dopoldne je minilo kot blisk. Rad imam bonsajizem! Jutri grem poravnat dolgove s tečaja v Izolo. Še en ustvarjalen dan je pred mano.

P.S.: This photo is for Bojan - for understanding what I meant! ;-)

P.S.: Tale slika je za Bojana, da bo lažje razumel, kaj sem imel v mislih! ;-)