Hobbit House in the shadow of bonsai

Artist KrisGays (ChrisGuise) from Maidenhead, UK, a big fan of the art of bonsai.
He created a miniature copy of the house Bilbo Baggins, the hero of the book The Hobbit, or There and Back Again.
Residence fantastic character, incredibly comfortable, but close in human terms, it was even smaller and located in the shade of a tree bonsai.
Particularly striking the author's attention to detail.




Here's the finished result of the wizard at different angles ...



... And during different seasons.







"Almost immediately after I bought the tree, I cut a trench in his trunk, processed edges and left him alone. After 2 years, callous edges and place. Soon after that I decided that I wanted to continue the formation of the barrel. "



Work on the excision is performed using a Dremel different attachments.



After fixing the drainage holes on the platform, the basis for it was made from a special mound of soil for bonsai "akadama" and placed and fixed tree. From clay and peat it was built curb to hold the soil.





"To simulate a hill, the rear wall should be very high, so I decided to take a" sponge ", which is used by florists to fill the space. It is very easy, obviously it absorbs a lot of water and because it is very convenient to cut out the desired shape. The sponge is attached to the brick facade on top of the wire and covered with a thin layer of soil »...



Brick facade is attached to a plastic mesh that holds all the parts together. "Bricks" carved out of the roof tile, skived sharp corners. All parts are cemented on a plastic mesh substrate. First created future door and window of the house, after the wall was laid out between them.



Copper doorknob was machined on its own a small metal working machine Chris and polished with sandpaper and steel wool.







The steps to the house and a small playground outside the window are made of slate tiles. Cracks and gaps between the tiles are filled with small tufts of moss.









Source: www.liveinternet.ru