I am enjoying watching your process!
My question is: How do you arrive at the coloring process? I never watched the Japanese APPLY Urushi but their primary colors were black, red and gold leaf. I most certain saw that everywhere I went. Thanks
Hi,
So .... Before application of colours, I need a solid base of raw urushi, after this I can start to apply coloured urushi. I'm buying directly prepared, I'm focused for now on correct application of Urushi and curing, I'll do urushi preparation later...
Applying urushi... Well, you need to experiment yourself to find your type of brush, movement, thickness, curing. It's a long journey.
You need to balance your layer thickness, and curing environment, a thick layer will create rinkles and urushi will peal, to much temperature and humidity will increase the curing and again creates rinkles, to low temp and humidity, the curing process will be longer or no curing at all. Ideal temp is 25 and humidity 75%.
Here a very useful link on urushi,
http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/116757-urushi-basics/
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