HAND MADE BONSAI

To grow a bonsai tree takes years and years of painstaking ,patient work....

This Handmade Bonsai is an imitation of the real one...

And it just takes a few hours' of imaginative,creative effort....

You need....

•  Pliable steel wire bits
• Tissue paper
• Flower making wire with green gum tape wrapped on them
• Glue
• Plaster of paris
• Acrylic paints in brown and yellow ocher shades
• Flower making wires wrapped with green colored gum tape.
• A suitable base/holder (I used anartistically shaped  coconut shell which was sold in an exhibition for just Rs.5)
• Thread

Method

• Cut steel wires into 3 -4 inch bits to shape the branches.
• Cut a few longer bits to shape the trunk of the tree.
• Cut the green wires into 1 1/2 to2 inch bits. Tie 8-10 bits aroun the tip of a steel wire 
• Wrap tissue paper soaked in diluted glue around the wires  and shape the branches.
• Run a thread around each bit and fasten it well.
• Similarly use more tissue papers and make a thicker trunk.
• Let them dry for a day.
• Bend them to your desired shapes.
• Shape the green wires to resemble some spiky tree leaves.
• Arrange the branches on the trunk and secure them with thread and glue.
• Mix the Plaster of paris with enough water .
• Pour some into the base and set the trunk in it .Let the Plaster of Paris harden well.
• Mix more plaster of paris and  apply it on the trunk ,base and branches roughly so it resembles a tree.
• Let it dry well.
• Paint it with acrylic colors .

The Bonsai is ready for display!