Bonsai unusual stump design case sharing, unique styling ideas for reference

Du Fu has a famous line: "Nature concentrates divine beauty."

Bonsai making has its fundamental principle: learn from nature.

Without further ado, the picture above

This is one from a set of photos taken by a netizen. Friends who love bonsai must be thinking: what would it look like if it were reduced into a pot?!

In fact, there are plenty of trees with magical forms in nature, so by learning from nature, we have no shortage of magical creative material.

The top can be slightly worked on.

It can also be like this. The uppermost part can be made into a deadwood branch, expressing

the unyielding spirit of nature after being struck by lightning and scorched by fire. Unfortunately, I do not know how to use photo-editing software, so I cannot produce that kind of mock-up for everyone to enjoy, and can only remove the part that would be made into a deadwood branch.

The making of any bonsai is mixed with humanistic emotional coloring. That is, bonsai reflects a certain sentiment of the maker: decadence, sorrow, nostalgia, calm, charm...

Hard to understand?! Look below:

Teacher Ba Wan Ziran picked up a stump from the market: the striking thing about this stump is its "unusual" form.

Unusual stumps are hard to design. Because "unusual" itself has already broken through conventions, and designing a fine scene that fits the qualities of "unusual" on the basis of "unusual" is even harder. A, Plan One: remove the left and keep the right

Now the finished mock-up (the master's photo-editing skill is really no joke)

Look, it is very beautiful. But it must be said that it is also very ordinary, just an ordinary bonsai. Compared with the original stump's "unusual" quality, it has nothing outstanding, that is, it "has entered the home of ordinary folk."

B, Plan Two, remove the right and keep the left

It seems possible too, look at the mock-up the master edited

It also does not seem to be something that can only be found by chance and not sought. Compared with the stump's original "unusual" quality, on the contrary, it seems to weaken it, and also appears insufficient.

Some people say, since you chose this stump, what you valued was its "unusual" quality, so why change the original stump's structure and seek another path?! Thus, there is Plan Three. C, Plan Three, the complete original stump

The original stump was planted in a square pot; the teacher pondered repeatedly, and the planting point and planting angle could only be like this. Planting it this way is to take 1 for the cascade style and 2 for height. After this stump is planted, many buds will sprout from the trunk. How to choose among them is still difficult. The teacher edited another mock-up, to choose by looking at the picture in the future.

Preliminary fixing of the stump.

Form: large tree style.

Title: "Watching Chess in Silence"

The treetop bends all the way down, reaching back behind the old man, as if watching two old men play a game.

The players, focused.

The onlooker, fascinated.

Reflection: at this time the bonsai has been given humanistic feeling by its maker: the tree is also likened to an old man; in fact it is not two people, but already three. The meaning is profound, and it makes one imagine even more.

Therefore, bonsai, if it is purely just bonsai, is at most "depicting form," only bringing people the beauty of the image. But going one step deeper, if the making of bonsai adds the maker's emotions, then it is "depicting the heart," and will bring people a richer emotional experience.