Daisy Flower Maki-e



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Daisy Flowers Maki-e
Recently I made some experiments with white urushi for making flower petals. Now I have finished the first pen with daisy flower heads built from white and yellow urushi. The intense color is achieved by mixing titanium white respectively Cadmium yellow pigments into transparent 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