For this project you're going to need the following:

• Translucent clay, amount depends on size of finished piece/pieces
  
• Your scrap heap! , select 3 shades of green...olives work best, choose onewith quite a bit of yellow in it, or mix them fresh, up to you!
  
• Mould of your choice and mould release (I like to use water myself)
  
• Wet/Dry sandpaper
  
• Burnt umber acrylic paint.
  

Below you see my choice of greens and the amount of translucent I chose to use, about one ounce.

Divide your translucent into three equal parts and mix in enough of the green to tint the clay, you don't want to lose the translucency!

Roll out each sheet of tinted clay as thin as you can. If using an atlas pasta machine about a 6-7 will suffice...if you're rolling it out by hand roll it as thin as possible and then stretch it a bit with your hands. Let these cool down for a bit and then start tearing off random shapes and sizes of the sheets, piling them loosely.

Compress your pieces without twisting or marbling, you can roll slightly backwards and then forward again , you don't want streaks or swirls!

Prepare your chosen mould with release, choose your most interesting surface of "jade" and mould your piece.

Now you're going to cure your piece according to manufacturer's recommendations. Tent your piece with foil to prevent discolouration, I usually just turn a cake tin right over the tile I'm baking on.

When finished, plunge piece into icewater and begin to wet sand. I begin with 400 and move through 600, 800, 1000.

Using an old toothbrush (though you can use whatever you wish) I brush on a coat of burnt umber acrylic paint making sure to get it in all the crevices. Using a damp paperdowel I'll remove the excess and return the piece to the oven for another 10 minutes.

When final curing is done, wet sand with 1500 grit sandpaper and buff to a highshine!

Depending on shades of green used you will always get a different result! Natural jade is very random and no jade is WRONG , so have fun with it!