Category Archives: Bonsai

Bonsai Pot 2

Melvyn-Friend-Technical-Sketches

I realise this isn’t going to happen as fast as I’d have liked. The workshop has been inundated with first year projects and the technicians stretched beyond capacity. I have never lathed before (apart from during the mini-me project which was a production line affair) so working out how to do it has been placed [...]

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Bonsai Pots

bonsai-pot-sketch

…in concrete. Something I have wanted to do for a while, and hopefully a little something I can offer at my degree show. All this done in 2 hours.   Sketch   Into Rhino. Preferred the more angular pot on the left.   Branding (to be laser cut and embedded into master, finished off with [...]

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Bonsai

The stress of dissertation combined with an informal study of Japanese aesthetics has led me to seek harmony in a subject that has always interested me: Bonsai. I didn’t know that most trees could be Bonsai’d, so I have a few privet cuttings soaking and have recently refashioned my Ficus Ginseng plant bought from Ikea [...]

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