Tutorial

Each balsa form were inserted with a glued wire, so they could be hold for the next steps,
and stick into the layout.

Then all the parts were cut with a razor blade, and each bottom and top of each pieces
were sanded to finish the forms.

I Applied a good coat of paint, moslty the same color than what the final tree will look.

Then with the acrylic paint stil wet (very important), I apply the tainted saw dust with a plastic
spoon. and shake off the excess. More detail on the kind of powder used to create the
folliage on the next page.....

First, I've started creating the forms of the tress, here I've done 2 kind of cedars trees, a
"menhir form" and some "ball form", a piece of balsa wood of 3/8 x 3/8 was use to achieve
those forms, all turned on a mini lathe, and then sanded brefly.

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