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Bag End Bonsai

""A large hill (The Hill) lay to the north, and under its southern slopes Bilbo's father Bungo built the luxurious smial Bag End above the lane of Bagshot Row. This is the home of Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee, where both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings begin and end."

The described scenery was more than enough inspiration for Chris to recreate it in miniature, with a stunning Bonsai as result. This article describes how this landscape was created."


Adventures of the Eyes : Takanori Aiba

"If you explore any small part of Aibafs works, you find amazing stories and some unique characters.
Those works are not just imaginary compositions; it is indeed possible to construct the amusement parks.

Murakami, who makes Aibafs models, is also a civil engineer. He is a realist sharing dreams with Aiba.
The early bonsai-type models look like bonsai art.

Bonsai reflect the Japanese traditional aesthetic sense of
expressing the magnificence of nature in a small potted plant.
However, the density of decoration and the rich stories of Aibafs works contain extraordinary times and spaces which differ from the bonsai world determined by plants physiology.

more via takanori.aiba.30art.com

The Art of Bonsai Project - The Penjing of Qingquan Zhao

Chinese Elm (Ulmus parvifolia)
Qingquan 'Brook' Zhao is one of the best known penjing artists to Western audiences, and rightly so. Zhao has pioneered the land-and-water form of penjing, in which quiet microcosms of the natural world are sculpted from rock, soil, and trees, usually on a marble slab. Bringing together a staggering talent for placing stones, a sensitive eye for natural beauty, and a mastery of tree penjing, Zhao creates marvellous plantings that capture the imagination of young children as deftly as they win the admiration of experienced penjing artists. Zhao does not restrict himself to land-water penjing; he also creates expansive landscape penjing that are dominated by natural rock formations, and graceful tree penjing.  
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The Art of Bonsai Project - European Spruce (Picea abies)

by Walter Pall - Germany
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The Art of Bonsai Project : Halloween - European Spruce (Picea abies)

Walter Pall - Germany
European Spruce (Picea abies)
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The Art of Bonsai Project - Halloween : Sempervivum Hybr.

Wolfgang Putz - Austria
Sempervivum Hybr.
Pot: Dan Barton
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The Art of Bonsai Project - Halloween - Royal Azalea

Candy J. Shirey - USA
Originally styled by Nick Lenz
Royal Azalea (Rhododendron schlippenbachii)
28"
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The Art of Bonsai Project - Halloween : European Spruce (Picea abies)

Walter Pall - Germany
European Spruce (Picea abies)
60 cm
Pot: Chinese
Collected in Austria
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The Art of Bonsai Project : Shohin Bonsai - Hisbicus

by Min Hsuan Lo
Height: 4.72 in, 12 cm
Pot: Japanese
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Shohin Bonsai : Firethorn (Pyracantha sp)

by Robert Kempinski