- Paperback: 120 pages
- Publisher: David & Charles (Feb 27 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0715315315
- ISBN-13: 978-0715315316
- Product Dimensions: 24 x 23.6 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 499 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,155,403 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
A variety of themed bonsai displays are shown in this project source. Miniature gardens are not only a delight to look at but will also prove themselves a harmonizing and soothing force within the home.
About the Author
After a successful career as a textile designer, Su Chin Ee became fascinated by the little-practiced art of penjing. A gold-medal winner at the prestigious Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show, she is now an official judge in the bonsai category at that show. Su grows and sells bonsai landscapes from her nursery in Kent, England. She writes regularly about bonsai and penjing for magazines and journals.
Lewis Collin is a contributor for Storey Books titles including: Creating Bonsai Landscapes. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Lewis Collin is a contributor for Storey Books titles including: Creating Bonsai Landscapes. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A very small world,
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This review is from: Creating Bonsai Landscapes: 18 Miniature Garden Projects (Paperback)
The writer presents 18 miniature landscapes which, she says, "represent a very personal synthesis of the bonsai and penjing traditions". These landscape are made up of the usual tiny trees, moss and gravel, but they also contain intricate rocky "outcrops" which form the basis of the entire landscape. Her creations combine the delicacy of the tiny landscape with the ruggedness of rock and tree to unique effect.The writer gives detailed instructions for making each of the landscapes, including - I kid you not - how to make all the rocky outcrops yourself. Given patience, skill and delicacy of touch almost anyone could follow these instructions and make a very attractive table top landscape. The writer was born in Singapore and studied art in England. She is a judge in the bonsai category at the Chelsea Flower Show in London. She approaches her miniature landscapes from the point of view of a painter, and she incorporates the Chinese principles of Tao and the balance of yin and yang to create harmony in these beautiful miniature worlds.
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A very small world,
By Valerie Adolph "Coast Journal" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Creating Bonsai Landscapes: 18 Miniature Garden Projects (Paperback)
The writer presents 18 miniature landscapes which, she says, "represent a very personal synthesis of the bonsai and penjing traditions". These landscape are made up of the usual tiny trees, moss and gravel, but they also contain intricate rocky "outcrops" which form the basis of the entire landscape. Her creations combine the delicacy of the tiny landscape with the ruggedness of rock and tree to unique effect.The writer gives detailed instructions for making each of the landscapes, including - I kid you not - how to make all the rocky outcrops yourself. Given patience, skill and delicacy of touch almost anyone could follow these instructions and make a very attractive table top landscape. The writer was born in Singapore and studied art in England. She is a judge in the bonsai category at the Chelsea Flower Show in London. She approaches her miniature landscapes from the point of view of a painter, and she incorporates the Chinese principles of Tao and the balance of yin and yang to create harmony in these beautiful miniature worlds.
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At Last!...A Guide for the Amateur as well as the Experienced!,
By Lady W. - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Creating Bonsai Landscapes: 18 Miniature Garden Projects (Paperback)
This is a fantastic choice for both beginner and more experienced bonsai lovers. With very clear instructions, detailed pics and (best of all) explicit descriptions of common materials you can easily find, creating copies of these gorgeous designs is REALLY possible! The text is free of the "hoity-toity" attitude in many other bonsai books and is instead encouraging and positive. Highly recommended!
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Awesome book for the "bonsai landscape" beginner,
By Jeffrey Wyman "jeff" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Creating Bonsai Landscapes: 18 Miniature Garden Projects (Paperback)
If you're looking to start making your own landscapes for your bonsai, this is a great book to begin with. I didn't buy the book, it was at my library, so maybe you can save a few also.
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