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tint the moons lightly with Alberts Yellow, outline with Meissen Brown or 
gold. The design would be effective carried out in a yellow brown scheme 
of color or lustre using Ivory, Yellow Brown, Brown and Gold. Any color 
or combination of colors may be used in conventional work so long as they 
harmonize. It would be impossible to make a list which would be of prac- 
tical value. Each design must be studied by itself. Buff can be made by 
tinting with Yellow Ochre quite deeply, adding a touch of Brown, "Cafe au 
lait" is the color of coffee with milk in it. Use Yellow Ochre with a touch of 
Brown tinting lightly.. The berry plate , Olive Sherman, April Keramic 
Studio, might be carried out as follows : Tint the plate with Yellow Ochre and 
fire, then tint the border again with Yellow Ochre. Paint the panel border 
and leaves with Meissen Brown, the berries with Pompadour, dust Olive 
Green over part of the leaves, outline with deep Red Brown or Gold, if pre- 
ferred. Many times simple designs are given without treatment in Keramic 
Studio, thinking that our readers would like to use their own taste. The color 
schemes are only given as suggestions in case one is short of ideas. 
A. F.— Fat oil is made by evaporating turpentine. It is used to mix pow- 
der colors, enamels, paste for gold, etc. with the addition of oil of lavender 
to keep it open. Then spirits of turpentine are used in the brush for painting. 
You will find a recipe for grounding oil in the 2nd prize essay in gold work in 
this number of Keramic Studio. For gold, fat oil has tar oil added to it before 
using turpentine. 
M. C. A. -We have also had the same difflcultj'- in mounting the china 
backs to mirrors, brushes, etc., and finally had a jeweler set them for us. 
He used a sort of cement. We advise you to consult a working jeweler. The 
trouble with plaster of Paris is that every time the plaster becomes damp, as it 
will on damp days or when the brush, etc. are moistened, the plaster swells and 
cracks the china. Whenever water colors become dry, take them out and 
rub them down on ground glass with a little water and glycerine, about J 
glycerine to the consistency of tube paints. This will keep them soft for 
use. When china becomes too dry for dusting there is no remedy but wait 
for the next fire or take it out and do it over. We do not believe lustres can 
be used satisfactorily over enamels, unless, perhaps over the hard fired white 
Dresden Aufsetzweis. If your customer wants to furnish the blue tiles to 
alternate with your white ones, she will have to furnish the white, too, from 
the same firm, as fire place tiles do not run in regular sizes but each manu- 
facturer runs his own sizes. You will have to enquire of the manufacturers. 
Subscriber-We hope in an early number to give a variety of flower and 
fruit subjects in miniature, arranged for decoration. When copying a flower 
subject in no matter what medium, water color oil or mineral paints, it is 
necessary to observe first from what direction the light comes, then if you 
re-arrange the study, you will have to see that the same law of light and shade 
is observed in the re-arrangement. The Mueller and Henningand La Croix 
colors in powder can be obtained from Favor Ruhl & Co., you will find their 
address in their advertisement in Keramic Studio. 
J. H. P. For your fish set we would advise making an appropriate 
design from the many studies of fish, etc, in the April Keramic Studio. Con- 
fine the decoration to the border. If you are unable to design we would ad- 
vise you looking over old numbers of Keramic Studio. You will find many 
good fish borders as well as other borders suitable for your roll tray and bread 
and butter plates. Use your own taste in selection as well as in color scheme. 
It is impossible for us to select designs or color schemes for you, not know- 
ing your taste. 
As a general suggestion we would say, take simple border and color 
schemes in keeping with your other table decorations, gold and white are 
always attractive and in good taste. Monograms should always be on rims 
of plates out of the way of the scratching of knife and fork. 
K. M. A. — For an attic studio with bare rafters the simplest treatment 
would be to keep the rather rustic effect. A few fish nets to drape from the 
rafters would soften the outlines but are great dust catchers. Braided chains 
of fodder corn with mottled kernels of yellow , white, brown and black, are 
very decorative and old ginger jars and quaint bottles and old brass and copper 
make good effect on odd shelves. A piece or two of old blue china lends a 
pleasant color note. For the floor, rag rugs made of cotton rags dyed to a 
pretty color scheme, or matting or hemp rugs are clean and attractive on the 
bare boards. An old cot with a Bagdad rug and some cushions make a cozy 
resting spot for visitors and if you can afford it, a few willow, rattan or grass 
chairs and table will add to both comfort and appearance. A few odd posters 
or if you have a collection, a border of posters are interesting and decorative. 
The old ginger jars or brass or pewter jugs make nice holders for fresh flowers 
in season and for dried grasses, teasels, hydrangeas or other winter bouquets. 
Put sheet asbestos over the ceiling above your kiln, around the pipe where it 
passes through the roof and under your kiln, also have a tin collar on tlie roof 
exit of the pipe. This will make firing in your attic studio perfectly safe. Leave 
an air space between asbestos and ceiling. Little separate tin ovens can be 
purchased at the hardware stores which may be heated over an alcohol lamp 
sufficiently for drying lustres. For a lawyer's office an appropriate gift would 
be a desk set, ink well, corners for blotter pad, handle for blotter, pen holder. 
Pictures for such an office should be of some historical subject, or occasionally 
one finds a humorous sketch connected with law engravings, photogravures 
or water color drawings are preferable to oil paintings. 
C. L. B., Milwaukee, Wis. — Try putting white lustre over the rose 
lustre ; probably that will prevent its rubbing off. Yellow over rose is very 
permanent also, and often produces beautiful opalescent tints. 
TREATMENTS 
Apples and Bees for Stein in Lustre 
Henrietta Barclay Paist. 
This design is pleasing in three tones either of brown 
or green. For the darkest color, the background, use a 
mat color. Draw the design with India ink. Oil with 
Grounding Oil for the background color. Dust. Clean out 
for the trees, wash on the lightest color for foliage, then 
paint in the second tone, carrying down into the panels if 
for vase. Fire. Repeat the dusting process if necessary, 
outline with Outlining Black and fire again. 
000 
Strawberry Bowl 
Marie Crilley Wilson. 
Strawberries two-thirds Blood Red, one-third Violet 
No. 2. Deaves, Sea Green and Shading Gf-een. Base and dark 
six-sevenths Copenhagen Blue and one-seventh Banding 
Blue. Use wnth grounding. Leave background of border 
white. Second firing: Color tinting oil wath Brown Green 
and dust with Pearl Grey. Third firing: Same as first. 
000 
Child's Milk Mog 
Marie Crilley Wilson. 
Trees in Brown Green. For first firing wash over Shad- 
ing Green and a touch of blue. Use this same color for dress 
and hat. Shoes and hair soft grey brown, using lighter 
color for hair. Feather, spots in dress, stockings, gloves, 
soft tan color. Flesh color for face, a touch of pink in cheek. 
Same color for apples. Sky, design at base and handle, gold. 
Road, fence and opening in handle, a warm grey. 
This design w^ould also be pretty in one color scheme, 
using equal parts of Copenhagen Blue and Pearl Grey, with 
one-fifth Banding Blue for first and second firing, making 
the tone correspond to those in India ink drawing. For 
third firing cover the design with tinting oil colored with 
Deep Blue Green, and dust with Pearl Grey. 
000 
Block House 
Marie Crilley Wilson 
First firing: Windows, upper band and base. Black. 
Second band and trees, two-thirds Brown Green, one-third 
New Green. Sky, grass, two-thirds Yellow Brown, one- 
third Brown Green. Gateway and roof. Pompadour. Sec- 
ond firing : Paint with tinting oil colored with Yellow Brown. 
This will give sufficient color to the house. Third firing: 
Same as first. 
000 
Little Castles 
Marie Crilley Wilson. 
Upper band, Yellow Brown with a touch of Black. 
Same color for band under design. Under upper band, and 
under and above lower band, paint a strong brown line. Sky 
and lettering in Gold, letters outHned in Brown. Main build- 
ing, pale pinkish Ochre with windows of Dark Brown. Trees, 
Brown Green and Shading Green. Base, greyish Brown. 
Roofs, Terracotta. Small buiIdings,Warm Grey, roofs Violet. 
LEAGUE NOTES 
The League Notes for this issue were received too late to be given in 
full. Mrs. Vesey asks all members to send both the outline drawing Prob 
I, and a conventional fruit design for ^^■illetts Belleek stein No. 599, Prob. II 
to Belle B. Vesey, 622S Wabash Avenue, Chicago, before December 17tli. 
