Pink Aster Flowers



Description:

Pink Aster Flowers - Lacquer with pink Aster flower heads built from pink and yellow urushi. The intense color is achieved by mixing titanium white and “sh’u” red respectively Cadmium yellow. pigments into transparent “sukurome” urushi. The mixture is 8 parts pigments to 2 parts urushi. Since the paste became very thick I could only apply it at warm temperature of 50ºC. On this pens, the flowers are appied on a fine black Ishime-ji stone ground. Customers can chose their favored urushi ground, on which the flowers are applied