Living wooden sculptures
Sculptures made of wood - it's not necessarily rude ancient idols, small netsuke and sullen-lesovichki stumps in kindergarten. Not always necessary to destroy a living plant to give it a new unusual shape - this assumption underlies interesting hobby called Tree shaping, or arborsculpture - or if about to translate it into Russian, drevomodelirovanie.
Tree shaping: living wooden sculptures
In fact, a hobby is no longer young, green. It is very similar to the traditional, long-standing views of tree care - such as the same bonsai. But a special "chip" Tree shaping is that the green crown - the seemingly pleasant to the eye of the tree - pales into insignificance. But the trunk becomes the object of intricate manipulations.
Wooden sculptures around us
"Architects" live wood sculptures begin with, pick a suitable, reasonably flexible plastic and wood. And then in the course are special tools, by which the barrel is rotated, bent, cleave, splice again. The resulting structure may eventually be difficult before that remind wicker chair. Although not all chasing abundance weaves: perhaps the most popular in the Tree shaping topic - a simple "of Pacific" and "man."
Wooden sculptures
The main difficulty when working on live wood sculpture is that it requires a really extraordinary patience. They say to get English lawn, you need to take care of him 400 years. Of course, the trees are specially selected for modeling fast-growing, but they make a mess with more than one year, so that this kind of leisure came to some very very long-lived inhabitants of the forest - for example, Tolkien's elves.
Living wooden sculptures
For several hundred years appear like living sculptures (or more correctly - the structure?). Golden Hands innate gardeners, fantasy and angelic patience - that will help create a masterpiece that will last more than one generation. It is certainly better than writing on the barrel knife "Vova Masha + = ...".
Wooden sculptures - the most durable
