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g day everyone
i got bored the other-day and i had this juni on a slab and i really needed to do something with it
it is a 5 year old juni and moss is home grown and the stone is natural quartz so this is the final out come
opinion's welcome considering this is first time at doing this style.
cheers dean

good effort mate!

Hugh

Love it dean.

very nice

hi
there seems to not be alot of penjing enthusiast as i thought there would be as it is a form of bonsai and scenery artform
well i guess everyone is of there own choice of style as i am in mine, i love traditional bonsai aswell as penjing as i love the different styles
that are applied to both types of artform
cheers dean

Hi Dean, there are quite a lot of Penjing enthusiasts, on the site but they call their trees Bonsai. That aside, I do have some opinions on your setting. Remember they are mine only.

First if you are going to use figurines of any kind they should be in scale. That tree would be better if it stood up some, instead of laying over to give some height.
Also if the shack was on the same side as the fisherman and with the tree was more up right it would give more perspective to the setting.
As I said just my opinion, good start never the less

I like it !!!!!!!! but is the house actually sitting in the water?

wait a minute its a house on stilts, like you do get sitting on the waters edge! sorry
very cool

Pups idea about scale is good but i think difficult, seeing as the fisherman is bigger than the house!!! haha ... it would have to appear to be in the far distance. However it is it is a great scene that evokes imagination and memory and a peaceful scene that relaxes the mind. Which is a great thing to have

Gday all
@pup how are ya,well the problem i had was the ornaments is what i had in the cupboard so i didnt really think of scale at the time,but when you mentioned it
i took a good look at the tree and ornaments and realised damn your bloody right but trying to get smaller ones is a bit hard when i cant drive
so i put up with what i got but i will be working more to scale next time and will be useing a different tree
@ neal yes it is a house on poles because the way i saw the scenery in my mind was ( it started out as a quartz quarry rocks around tree and moss,then over the years the quarry closed down and its owners just left all the quartz around the place then a old man brought the land and in the years to come it filled with water and fish so the old man had to use his skills and raised the house and stayed there and did his fishing in the quite scenery and didnt bother anyone else so it is his secluded little peice of paradise)
cheers dean

Im new to the world of bonsai, and to be honest, I have only just discovered penjing. I thing it is fascinating as it invokes a great sense of nature at its best, and is calming and imaginative. Some of the penjing I have seen are amazing with such minute details. Im sure everyone has seen this before, but this is an example of what I am referring too.

Keep up the good work Dean , we can't succeed if we don't try, and this site is great for sharing advice and encouragement.

Hi Dean,

Sorry I can't simply join the enthusiasts of your landscape.
I think it might be worth your while to make a more in-depth study of Bonkei and Saikei, i.e. tray landscapes with and without figurines. If you enter "bonkei" in Google and go to "Images", you get a whole choice of examples. For "saikei" I found "Masterpieces of saikei" http://www.saikei.co.uk/page34.html as well as a video "Saikei creation" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH01T1OqesQ They are similar to Luke's posting above.
One of the difficulties here in Oz is finding a variety of high quality figurines. If anyone knows of a dealer in those, I'd love to get the particulars!

Lisa

hi
thanks luke and lisa all comments are concidered but like i always say to myself ( if i dont try i wont succeed )and this is my first and i can only get better at doing what i love doing i never looked at doing penjing but i thought with the help of drew changed my mind in trying different styles
cheers dean