This is how jade carvers design tri-color jadeite raw stones with clever carvings and beautiful colors!

Jadeite raw stones are rich and varied in color. You can even see multiple colors coexisting on the same stone, which provides unlimited possibilities for jade carvers' artistic creation. Skillful carving of colors is a technique often used by jade carvers, but it requires a long period of experience accumulation and is an accumulation of a jade carver's knowledge, thinking, culture, and wisdom.

The color-matching technique of jade carving is different from painting. The color distribution of jade raw stone is largely random. When a jade carver creates a color-matching work, his thinking must follow the natural color distribution of the raw stone. He must also consider the nature, defect distribution and so on. This is also a great test.

Today let’s take a look at a piece of tri-color jadeite raw stone and how the jade carver turns it into an exquisite work.

This is already a piece of clear material. After the skin is peeled off, the jade flesh and color inside have been fully revealed. The raw stone is not big, just big enough for a pendant. What’s surprising is that the color is not only rich but also bright.

This side shows white flesh and has no color, but it doesn't matter, it is suitable for the back.

The emerald green part is concentrated and the color is very bright, so it would be perfect to design it into the image of a lotus leaf.

The curling arc of the lotus leaf can just avoid some white cotton defects, and the white flesh under the green lotus leaf is designed to be two small fish swimming at play, which is just a picture of the moonlight in the lotus pond, with the idea of ​​abundance every year. The little bit of yellow jade at the bottom is designed to look like a fish’s tail, which is vivid and interesting and adds the finishing touch.

The back is carved with hollow carving techniques, and most of the bottom is left blank, ready to be carved with some calligraphy.

The final product is unveiled

The yellow jade on the top is designed into a dragonfly. The lotus has just begun to show its pointed tip, and a dragonfly has already landed on it.

The back is finally engraved with the words: flowers blossom and wealth, and there will be surplus every year, which declares the theme of the subject.

The lotus flowers are in full bloom, the lotus leaves are green and beautiful, dragonflies are standing on the branches, and small fish are swimming in the water, creating a vivid picture of fish in the lotus pond.

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