Suita Renge dry and wet close-ups

[FatboySlim]

A few months back, member Memorael posted photos of a Suita stone with intense renge figuring. At the time, I didn't know what renge were. Thanks to the generosity of Memorael, I now own that stone. It's my first and only Suita stone, as a bonus. To top it off, it is a wonderful finisher with a classic JNat feel.

Now I see first hand up-close what renge figuring looks like, and it's so pretty I wanted to share with other JNat stone hounds such as myself. The stone is palm-sized (about 5" X 2"), and while the figure shows when dry, the shades of color and depth aren't apparent. But when wet, the figure just pops out all over the entire surface, with so many shades of color! I don't have the skills to really capture in photos the 3-D layered aspect of the figure when wet, but I tried. In person, it looks like swirly flecks of pink, purple, and red suspended in oil above the surface, with veins of figure running on the surface itself underneath. It almost seems like if I shook the stone hard , the pattern would change while I watched. I just love it, haven't seen anything like it before in person.

Suita Renge, Dry:



The same Suita Renge, when Wet: