Changing a Bonsai's Design | Bonsai-U

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  • @EiseienBonsai
    @EiseienBonsai  4 роки тому +5

    Thank you all for your input and comments about the design! Please consider helping out Bonsai-U by donating at bjornbjorholm.com/donate/

  • @randicommand2453
    @randicommand2453 3 роки тому +2

    Lovely. You whipped that unruly scamp right back into shape. It is now perfect, until the next iteration.

  • @chadwickBU
    @chadwickBU 10 місяців тому +2

    This helps with neglected garden pine I found and took with permission in Big Sur thx chuck

    • @chadwickBU
      @chadwickBU 10 місяців тому +1

      Also Im interested on how one strengthens "leggy brances " in such trees to keep them in place after wire is removed

  • @peteyo3014
    @peteyo3014 4 роки тому +3

    Thank you Bjorn for what you do. I look forward to each video you come out with and enjoy learning from you. I love both designs and enjoyed watching the evolution of the tree from one design to another and one artist to the next. They both have wonderful qualities to enjoy.

  • @catherinebrown8577
    @catherinebrown8577 4 роки тому +22

    Two beautiful designs - I certainly couldn't choose one over the other, especially considering that the tree offered such different foliage the second time. Maeoka-san's style is so finessed, so elegant, graceful and airy; it seems to emphasize the flowing curves of the trunk. Bjorn's approach to the foliage is soft and natural, the jin adding some age and along with the shift in movement I focus more on the changes in direction of the trunk which seem to describe how the tree has survived in the environment. Two masters. Great video.

  • @jeffhurst4744
    @jeffhurst4744 4 роки тому +3

    Prior design shape was very good. I like how you used what grew/changed and redesigned/styled it into a beauty. Love the, as is said, the feature of negative space. I always learn and am inspired by your bonsai videos. Thank you.

  • @colinpeake8494
    @colinpeake8494 4 роки тому +9

    Your videos are such high quality. An art form within an art form.

  • @michaellivingston8987
    @michaellivingston8987 4 роки тому +3

    It is great to see how different visions can grow from previous designs. Bonsai-U is so comfortable and informative. Keep up the videos!

  • @craighunter3273
    @craighunter3273 4 роки тому +4

    A beautiful tree. Enhanced even more by this recent styling. A top end work of art. Thanks for bringing this to us. I will now go back and watch this again. Cheers

  • @alfredgrechbonsailicious4827
    @alfredgrechbonsailicious4827 2 роки тому +2

    Both interpretations are commendable, as they are elegant and dynamic. Thanks for sharing. Simply bonsailicious.

  • @peterhuemer640
    @peterhuemer640 4 роки тому +19

    Naoki's version was cool ... but this seems more natural for me & my eye! Love to see it next year ...

  • @Kimm_99
    @Kimm_99 4 роки тому +3

    I love everything about this video all the way down to the music. thank you so much for your demonstration.

  • @thekickingmule
    @thekickingmule 4 роки тому +4

    I like both! It's good to see how the same tree can have different designs over the years. Reminds you that it's a living, breathing thing, not just an 'ornament'

  • @johnskill1753
    @johnskill1753 4 роки тому +3

    A brilliantly educational demonstration. You are a very gifted teacher. Really like the end result. Thank you.

  • @gordonallan2798
    @gordonallan2798 4 роки тому +6

    I was given au unwanted Jack Pine last Autumn by a gardening friend. I am beginning to style it as a semi-cascade. Your styling commentary in this video was very helpful for that. Thanks.

  • @alexisfaitdubonsai
    @alexisfaitdubonsai 4 роки тому +3

    Very good restyling Bjorn 👌
    I prefer this styling, it's more appropriate regarding the vertical mouvement of the trunk. I like your Sahi-eda and the head is very well placed 👍

  • @casaroccafamilyking
    @casaroccafamilyking 4 роки тому +5

    Very impressive! Inspirational acutally. I didn't realize that a tree could be redesigned within such a short period of time. I always imagined many years before reworking one. This video was superb.

  • @johngilbert939
    @johngilbert939 4 роки тому +4

    Thanks Bjorn, another excellent video and I will be looking forward to seeing it in 12 months. Additionally, great information concerning the overall design and getting away from the "perfect" triangle shape with irregular pads and negative space to give a more naturalistic product.
    Nanxi and you keep safe and post some more pictures of the dog so we cn also see him develop.

  • @JonSteitzer
    @JonSteitzer 4 роки тому +2

    Wonderful explanation that takes us through your thinking, and amazing vision and talent. Thank you for sharing this

  • @JoaoSantos-rs3my
    @JoaoSantos-rs3my 4 роки тому +1

    I always learn when I watch your videos. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge.
    Stay safe!

  • @BONSAIenCORTO
    @BONSAIenCORTO 4 роки тому +1

    Video muy interesante. La evolución desde el primer diseño hace que se hayan tenido que tomar decisiones nuevas..... El primer diseño, más compacto y minimalista se aleja bastante de este, más naturalista. Los dos son indiscutiblemente buenos. La calidad del video es impresionante. Gracias por compartir.

  • @DeanKellyBonsai
    @DeanKellyBonsai 4 роки тому +1

    Love it. Especially the softness in the pad bottoms. Love a soft bottom.

  • @carloscruz6536
    @carloscruz6536 2 роки тому +2

    Nicely done I liked the way that you explained all the process. Thanks for sharing your knowledge 👍👍🇵🇷

  • @nightcoder5k
    @nightcoder5k 2 роки тому +2

    The after styling looks stunning. Great job.

  • @hakkawarrior2
    @hakkawarrior2 4 роки тому +2

    What a legend this guy is! Absolutely awesome bonsai! I learn so much in every video, thank you!

  • @hakahfend3161
    @hakahfend3161 4 роки тому +1

    Amazing transformation.
    You take the first design in your mind with a lot of respect, for Naoki Maeoka.
    This tree needs to be reshape, for his health.
    But we all can see the the homage to the first designer, when the tree is finished ! (((never! )))
    Thank you Bjorn , for spending time with us in France,
    for your advices, and patience, hope to see you soon !

  • @MrDuetorama
    @MrDuetorama 4 роки тому +2

    You are such a great artist.I admire your style.The tree become pure perfection, so well balanced. The golden ratio can be found in each section of the whole design.

  • @hamletjazz
    @hamletjazz 4 роки тому +4

    Hej Björn, thank you very much for this video. I was wondering if you can make a video about how you handle your bonsai seedlings when they are three or four years old (which is the time I usually screw things up with my bonsais intended design). For example maybe a part three of your very good video of the Japanese maple seedlings?

  • @calbutler8040
    @calbutler8040 4 роки тому +2

    Love the evolution of this tree

  • @stanhawkins1023
    @stanhawkins1023 4 роки тому +2

    I love both versions.

  • @franckboeuf5514
    @franckboeuf5514 4 роки тому +1

    Bonjour Bjorm j aime beaucoup ton travail ! C est très équilibré

  • @friendsofHolySpirit
    @friendsofHolySpirit 4 роки тому +3

    A very well done video! Of course your bonsai skills and artistry are well honed, but I have to say your teaching and production skills are much improved! This is a much better video than your previous restyling video. Please continue to teach and promote bonsai. I favor a more natural style. Both styles are well done, different styles. I always try to tell a story with my work.

  • @gabrielschneider1344
    @gabrielschneider1344 4 роки тому +2

    Hey Bjorn,
    I remember a Video wehre you and Naoki where on an Exhibition, dont know where it was, maybe the Kokufu in your time at kouka-en. You both had to set up some Trees and it was really early in the morning and you asked Naoki about his best Tree on the Exhibition. It was a really thin nice literati styled tree. It showed a lot about his way to see the beauty in trees and maybe it fits to his character, dont know him but for me it was a great example how different the feeling of esthetic can be. I liked the way he styled the juniper before, but maybe it had less brnaching in the backround. The new Styling is also really nice and i like your way to give trees more threedimensional flow in the branches and the variation with negative spaces. Its the way how the naturalistic habitus make sense for me and what you see in nature. You and Michael Hagedorn or David Benavente do it in a really nice way. Dont know if the Jin down on the right side could be removed, but maybe you sit down another evening with a Glass of Gin :) and think about it. But as always....really great work Bjorn!!! Its always lovely to watch your stuff. go on with it, stay tight...cheers from Germany!!!

    • @EiseienBonsai
      @EiseienBonsai  4 роки тому

      Thanks mate! That's all great commentary, much appreciated!

  • @starscream4067
    @starscream4067 4 роки тому +1

    it's way much better now! 👏👏😍

  • @balesjo
    @balesjo Рік тому +1

    Love the redesign.

  • @raynorris135
    @raynorris135 3 роки тому +2

    Very cool , both designs were appropriate for each growth cycle👍😎

  • @creightonfreeman8059
    @creightonfreeman8059 4 роки тому +2

    I think there is a visual conflict between the line of the Jin going back in toward the trunk and the cascading branch extending down to the left , but that it will resolve itself if the branch on the left grows and extends down further, so that the two lines are not so equally balanced.

  • @brianlehmkuhl8162
    @brianlehmkuhl8162 4 роки тому +1

    I love it. Thank you for these videos👍

  • @cosmiceon
    @cosmiceon 4 роки тому +1

    Dude................ the home improvement style intro theme SLAPS!!!! have this shit stuck in my head all day!

  • @sationobudi1706
    @sationobudi1706 4 роки тому +1

    Bagus Bjorn! A nice transformation!

  • @ricardoduarte5454
    @ricardoduarte5454 4 роки тому +1

    Magnificent tree and magnificent work 👌👌👌👏👏👏👏

  • @annonymous1273
    @annonymous1273 3 роки тому +2

    Great exercise in the importance of flexibility
    On initial reflection for me:
    1st styling: came across as applied artisanship, beautiful design use of existing (foliage) material. I felt it brought “youthfulness/ youthful eternity” to an aged tree
    2nd style: I think has more development to go yet, but I’m warming to it, I kinda looked initially like a traditional peasants’ stick-and-sack travelling kit, like a fishing rod with a “travel sack”, but I’m warming to it, I’m trying to find the “new story”

  • @dg8828
    @dg8828 4 роки тому +2

    I think you did a great job and although I liked both designs - this seems the best for the tree's evolution.

  • @paulkrasner
    @paulkrasner Рік тому +1

    Great re-design

  • @pigcatapult
    @pigcatapult 3 роки тому +1

    the foliage is like a green cloud floating over an abyss

  • @bobbysteig5346
    @bobbysteig5346 4 роки тому +4

    Nicely executed design.
    Seems to me that you could eliminate most of that jin at the very top. While it frames the foliage well, it also pulls the eye away from the elliptical shape of the composition as a whole
    Kudos also on the quality of your videos and the comprehensive nature of your narrative
    Thank you

    • @johnholloway691
      @johnholloway691 4 роки тому

      Absolutely agree that losing upper jin would strengthen the overall composition.

  • @wouterblokdijk1864
    @wouterblokdijk1864 4 роки тому +1

    Really nice video, both content and cinematic wise. Like the end result, fresh and elegant.
    Makes me wonder however. Is there some sort of etiquette between bonsai artists when they work on a tree after eachother. And if so, could you explain this and if there are regional differences to your knowledge?

  • @eoinmulvany860
    @eoinmulvany860 4 роки тому +1

    stunning

  • @40JoCharles
    @40JoCharles 4 роки тому +1

    Beautiful work. 🙂💚

  • @erichraudebaugh
    @erichraudebaugh 4 роки тому +2

    Nice job Bjorn. I like both stylings, but yours seems more suited to the species, where Naoki's works better for a fuller Japanese style Shimpaku. It looked great, but I think that the trend over the last few decades in Japan, perhaps led by Kokufu trees, of overly full 'helmet' top conifers doesn't suit American species that well. It looks like both you and Ryan Neil understand that pretty well, and this tree shows off a minimalist character of American yamadori.

  • @chrisrigoni
    @chrisrigoni 4 роки тому +1

    Thank You 🙏✌️

  • @josegutierrez8498
    @josegutierrez8498 4 роки тому +1

    Thank you For share.your knowledge

  • @antonior3963
    @antonior3963 4 роки тому +1

    Thank you.Amazing!

  • @Ficus-Bonsai
    @Ficus-Bonsai 3 роки тому +1

    nice work mate!

  • @dringherden_pedrajas1750
    @dringherden_pedrajas1750 4 роки тому +1

    May I know, just for the sake of academic discussion as we often encounter this situation, this tree is designed applying the features of Literati, however this one does not fall into such style obviously because of the trunk... can we classify this as slanting style? Or do we have more specific classification for this? Thank you!

  • @GCBonsai
    @GCBonsai 4 роки тому +1

    Just an Hour and Me the second viewer . . . VERY INFORMATIVE Video. This Bunjin Style is really great! GOOD JOB SIR!👍

  • @mattpascualjr.2710
    @mattpascualjr.2710 4 роки тому +1

    Bjorn what's your take on copper vs aluminum wire?

  • @derekm918
    @derekm918 4 роки тому +1

    Very cool!

  • @milagros_miraculos
    @milagros_miraculos 4 роки тому +1

    great work!

  • @treesbonsaiperfect8420
    @treesbonsaiperfect8420 3 роки тому +1

    beautifoll your bonsai tree l love your work bro 😊❤❤❤

  • @inigo_u
    @inigo_u 4 роки тому +2

    That bonsai is amazing 😉

  • @waynedavis6171
    @waynedavis6171 4 роки тому +2

    Beautiful,

  • @opabinnier
    @opabinnier 4 роки тому +2

    Pleasant.

  • @homegardentricks2941
    @homegardentricks2941 4 роки тому +1

    Very nice brother.

  • @Nizzon.
    @Nizzon. 4 роки тому +2

    Amazing!

  • @sadalisipot1705
    @sadalisipot1705 4 роки тому +4

    I'm prefer this kind of styling...More natural looking tree.So beautiful.

  • @Ficus-Bonsai
    @Ficus-Bonsai 4 роки тому +1

    great work, ! 👍😀

  • @gregoryh4601
    @gregoryh4601 4 роки тому +1

    Nice Work Bjorn. I like the other branch more into the main trunk so there be no space to take eyes away from trunk and green branches. But that why you make the big Bucks.lol Greg of Ohio

  • @llamafromspace
    @llamafromspace 4 роки тому +1

    Why is size 4 wire bigger than size 8?

  • @thomaskauffman983
    @thomaskauffman983 4 роки тому +1

    when will you be able to remove the support?

  • @albertog5684
    @albertog5684 4 роки тому +2

    Awesome!

  • @bonsaichaunguyen
    @bonsaichaunguyen 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you

  • @jimmyrasnake6704
    @jimmyrasnake6704 4 роки тому +6

    this version is more naturalistic even though Naoki had a strong design also

  • @giriendra9482
    @giriendra9482 4 роки тому +1

    Amazing

  • @BonsaiHunter
    @BonsaiHunter 4 роки тому +1

    Love it very much

  • @heinrichleroyheimer4649
    @heinrichleroyheimer4649 4 роки тому +2

    I'm kinda confused, is there a time period when a bonsai tree doesn't need wiring anymore?

  • @takarabonsai3545
    @takarabonsai3545 4 роки тому +1

    gracias por el vídeo

  • @StephenTurnerVlogs
    @StephenTurnerVlogs 4 роки тому +1

    Oh Bjorn, I love it when you use technical terms like crotch growth and finangle 😁.
    Seriously though I do like your new style. I like how the foliage is almost trying to reach back up to the light from the bottom.
    Ps. It's May now in Ireland, have I left it too late to try to air layer a juniper?

  • @aprilrosima9545
    @aprilrosima9545 4 роки тому +1

    I like both..but i like this style better.😁

  • @framoncaljud
    @framoncaljud 4 роки тому +1

    Tough to choose. I like both.

  • @ming2479
    @ming2479 3 роки тому

    17:07 omg I thought I saw a tiny face in the middle of the branches

  • @Markmac13YT
    @Markmac13YT 4 роки тому +1

    Bottom right deadwood of the foliage looks like root-growth reaching back towards the soil. Almost as if the old man is reaching back towards his youth along the trunk line for a rejuvenation. This variation has much more appeal to the viewer IMO.

  • @simonbergagna
    @simonbergagna 4 роки тому +1

    Love it 👍

  • @Man_Erbs
    @Man_Erbs 4 роки тому +1

    👏👏👏 awesome

  • @tosimsugianto
    @tosimsugianto 4 роки тому +1

    bonsai yg sangat istimewa salam dari INDONESIA

  • @thomaskauffman983
    @thomaskauffman983 4 роки тому +2

    oops, I asked too soon. :) Nice job as always!

  • @jonezkat
    @jonezkat 4 роки тому +2

    Like your design best, has more depth and movement

  • @karinpetersen8330
    @karinpetersen8330 Рік тому +1

    Wooow👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @onerone2681
    @onerone2681 4 роки тому +1

    one best !!!!!

  • @69kesh
    @69kesh 4 роки тому +1

    gr8 job

  • @KANGBONSAIBOGOR
    @KANGBONSAIBOGOR 4 роки тому +1

    Bonsai mantab 🙏

  • @PastTheDirtRoad
    @PastTheDirtRoad 4 роки тому +2

    Great vid bruh. Hahaha just kidding. You said you wouldn't classify it as Bunjin. So I'm curious what style you would consider it

    • @HansKaramottoBonsai
      @HansKaramottoBonsai 4 роки тому +1

      The beautiful style!!! 😁👏👏
      Cheers, and stay safe everybody!!!
      Hans van Meer.

  • @DarthMasiah
    @DarthMasiah 4 роки тому +2

    nice change

  • @sungaililinfishing2038
    @sungaililinfishing2038 4 роки тому +1

    Yes sir

  • @MrB1923
    @MrB1923 4 роки тому +1

    Sensei ni rei.

  • @VeryZesty
    @VeryZesty 4 роки тому +1

    I think, it will look more balanced, if you remove the two bottom pads :)

  • @SIC66SIC66
    @SIC66SIC66 4 роки тому

    didn't he say he wanted to remove only 20% of the foliage? :D

  • @janbane9842
    @janbane9842 4 роки тому +1

    Uhhhh first time first :D

  • @wildboystv3013
    @wildboystv3013 4 роки тому

    Anyone else prefer the backside? I think i like it better. The backside of the finished version that is.

  • @JonasTheLundh
    @JonasTheLundh 4 роки тому +1

    Is it just me or does he look like the love child of Chris Pratt and Shaggy?