Styling A Snaky Mountain Hemlock: Part I
Carmen Leskoviansky, my apprentice, took on the styling of this Hemlock.
Side 1
Side 2
Side 3
Side 4. Which front would you choose?
Carmen (and I) chose this one. A few boards on the right side and back corner lend a rakish tilt to the left.
Given this front and inclination, where would you put the branches and the crown? Would you remove any branches?
In a couple weeks we’ll have a Part II post showing our design solution… Stay tuned!
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I like the last iteration, except for the crown. Were this my tree, I rework the crown by removing the top at long branch the right.
You asked. That would be my only change.
Hi Skipp,
Thanks for your design thought!
The two-part post is to give folks time to consider, exactly as you have, what they would do, before I share what we did. In the past some folks have made a digital drawing to create their own exercise out of the images.
I’ll post soon with Part II.