A white-out exercise is a fun way to explore design options. It helps see a new design without needing to cut off a branch.
This Ezo Spruce was designed in 2016 and has since filled out. It’s a skinny-trunked tree, and now there’s enough foliage mass that the design might be improved by cutting off branches.
Take a look and see what branches you think should be cut, if any.
Here’s the subject of our exercise, an Ezo Spruce.
We used white cloths as white-out in a recent Seasonal class.
The following are suggested branch removals, shown as digital white-outs.
Please review the options below and choose your favorite, putting the number of your choice in the blog comments. In a future blog post I’ll comment on each design option.
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A final option is to thin the foliage and not cut any branches off. Let’s keep that as option 11.
Let me know what you think. I’ll respond to your selections in a Part II, and will comment on each of the above options.