Using carving examples to illustrate the application and techniques of jadeite's "skin-carving with beautiful colors"

Damakan jadeite raw stone is relatively cheap on the one hand, and on the other hand it often produces yellow jadeite, red jadeite or colorful jadeite. Therefore, many jade lovers like to bet on the Damakan material.

But often, Damakan material produces more yellow-skinned or red-skinned jadeite. For these jadeites with only a layer of fog, when designing carving themes, the idea we often use is "skillful carving with skin and beautiful color". Simply put, it is to keep the original shape of the original stone without cutting it, and to carve the color according to the thickness of the fog layer.

Next, let us further understand this idea through the carving process of a Damakan material!

The original stone is a typical Damakan material. By opening the window, you can see a yellow fog layer with good water quality, but don’t think that the flesh inside is also yellow jade. By shining a light, we can see that the flesh is obviously white, and we can judge that it only has a thin yellow fog layer.

When faced with Damakan material of this kind, the safest approach is to first remove the outer skin of the raw stone, and then further determine whether to cut it or keep the fog layer for carving.

After grinding the outer skin clean, we can see that the best fog layer of the entire jade is only in the window part. The fog layer in other places is very thin and looks dirty.

Faced with the performance of the material, the carving master decided not to cut the piece anymore, but instead to carve the material with the skin and color. According to the actual distribution of the yellow fog layer, the carving master designed the jade to carve a hand-held piece with the theme of "Double Dragons Playing with a Pearl"!

The fog layer performs best at the window opening, so the main body of "Double Dragons Playing with a Pearl" - two dragon heads and dragon ball - are arranged here. If the fog layer does not perform well in other positions, the dirt and color can be enhanced by cleverly carving the dragon's coiled body.

The coiled dragon is carved using a combination of high relief and round carving techniques. The raw material looks very mighty and domineering. The fog layer is separated into two coiled dragon patterns, transforming into two golden flying dragons, which are very vivid and charming.

The fog layer of this material has a natural watery feel, and the polished finish is very stunning. The two golden flying dragons are lifelike, vivid and full of domineering. The entire handle is carved delicately and exquisitely with smooth lines.

The application of "skillful carving with skin and beautiful colors" is generally used on raw stones with unsatisfactory jade texture but distinctive skin. The most representative raw stone is the material from Damakan. Doing so can avoid blindly cutting the material, which will result in no valuable material being taken out in the end!

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