How to mix urushi with pigments?
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- Urushi is brown, amber, sometimes yellow. Black (kuro) is made by adding iron compounds. All other colours - by adding pigments (not dyes). When adding pigments mixing and filtering is your main job.
Urushi used: nakanuri
Pigments: dark red (artificial, based on titanium oxide), pure white titanium oxide, eggshell powder.
Tools: spatulas, metal, plastic and wooden.
About me.
BLOG: tamenuri.com/
INSTAGRAM: / tamenuri_studio
I'm Michal and I'm a fountain pen addict and I lacquer pens with urushi lacquer. On my channel, you fill wind tutorials, videos from my urushi workshop, presentation of techniques, tools and materials used in urushi craft. I am also showing pens lacquered by me and other artists. I review pens but mostly urushi and I focus on this aspect of pen, not usual build, nibs and writing performance.
I am self-taught in this craft, most I know I do I learned from my own experience, trial and error. A lot of them. But also from Japanese books, and videos on urushi.
I make bespoke urushi pens to order, too, so please contact me If you are interested. It can be an ebonite pen I provide (I cooperate with several hight quality pen-makers) or you pen, provide the clip is removable and trim is not too elaborate.
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Your products are beyond Nakaya....
So cool.
Hello from Oregon! New subscriber here. Love your channel! Great instruction and demonstration!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👨🏻🎨👨🏻🎨👨🏻🎨👨🏻🎨
One point to mention is that over time ( 6 months -1 year ) the colour will lighten somewhat ( sometimes a lot ) as the urushi ages...and the overcoats will become somewhat more transparent from the same aging...it's just another one of the properties of the medium....
Yes. In case of tamenuri the process of lightening can continue for even 5 years. I wrote about in article linked in description to video : tamenuri.com/what-is-tamenuri/
You could try a glass paint muller to really break up and suspend the fine particulate clumps. It's how I make homemade watercolors.
Thank you, i will check this option out. In Japan they use pin roller and mortars.
Im looking forward to your filtering video. I tried coating my noodler's ahab with urushi for my first try on fountain pens. The pen had a strong vegetal resin smell which was very unpleasant, which was masked by the urushi. but aesthetics wise i didn't quite get it looking nice
I am lacquering an Ahab right now ;) same reason - plasticky and smell ;)) I’ll show it in one of next videos ;)
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Can you tell me how to make kuro urushi for kintsugi please.
Buy kuro urushi. Even me, with all experience, 3kg of urushi in studio never make kuro urushi myself. It makes no sense with less than 2-3 kg at a time.
Hi bro,
I liked your videos so much! I always follow you. I wanna ask a question to u. The materials which you are using, from where do you buy? Especiaally the materials for URUSHİ, how can I find the place which sell them? I will use them for wood stick. I need black ones. By the way I live in Turkey. Best regards and loves from Turkey.
Several shops in Japan, but easies to communicate is Watanabe Shoten
Is it possible to use natural mineral pigments to colour the lacquer? I would like to create Australian themes and would like to use soil / sand to produce variations of outback reds, yellows and whites. In other words what are the issues and limitation of using such finely crushed pigmentation?
Yes, some of them yes. Others no ;) you need to test. As always with urushi. You test cure urushi itself often, even if used it before. It’s important part of this craft..
@@TamenuriStudio Michael, Thank you for your reply. I will start collecting various desert sands and will then create a fine powder. As you say experimenting will be the acid test. I will start cataloging the samples for reference, test the sands for acidity, alkalinity etc.
Feel very motivated as it will give me a reason to get into the bush.
I have enjoyed all your UA-cam posts and love the relaxed and understated presentations. Thank you
Hello I have but one question I am currently making a traditional tanto blade and I plan to use urushi in the handle and my question is can I use just plain charcoal powder for pigment to turn the urushi black
yes it is possible. It will baheve differently, will be more difficult to apply but doable. Try "lamp black" too - much betted as pigment.
@@TamenuriStudio thanks so much I’m studying many traditional Japanese arts and have become fascinated with your work and with urushi itself so thank you so much I greatly appreciate it
Do you still need to filter pre-colored urushi?
Yes, for important layers always. Urushi in tubes might be easily contaminated by pieces of cured and semicured urushi that are around the tube opening. And filtering is also an additional way to mix pigment paste with urushi. I do not use pre-coloured urushi "ready to use" - I use high pigment pastes which are mixed with urushi in different ratios from 1:2 to 2:1. Generally I always filter urushi for any critical layer (last middle and all top layers)
@@TamenuriStudio Thank you very much!