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stiff sable brushes must be used, and in the case where a 
gradation is required up to a high light, the brush should 
be used after the manner of a chisel, with a little patch of 
stiff slip scooped up from the palette, and applied with the 
brush held sideways, leaving it projecting where the light 
is required to be highest and softening it down by stroking 
the fiat brush over it on the side where it is required to be 
graded into the next color or tone. 
In the examples given, the fish-pot should be 
grounded in dark green, which might be graduated 
into olive green near the top, and clouded here and 
there with shaded patches of the lighter or darker 
colors to suggest depth and translucency in the water. 
The fish in the background is done in black, mixed with 
white slip in varying quantities to represent the required 
tone. The corners of the mouth and touches on the slits 
of the gills should be touched with fine strokes of red brown 
to give effective contrast and value to the greenish grey tone 
which the fish will exhibit when covered with yellow glaze. 
The lake trout is done with dark blue in the deepest parts, 
with the gills and lighter parts of the back done in the same 
color lightened with white, and the high lights touched 
with light blue, and the very deepest shades discreetly 
touched with black, with which all the pupils of the eyes 
are also done. The sides and fins of the fish are done with 
olive green mixed largely with white, and the shaded parts 
with the same color mixed with a little red brown. The 
fish should be shaded perfectly plain and smooth at first 
and the spots and scales put on afterwards. The spots 
are red brown, touched lightly with chocolate in the darker 
places, and made greyer by admixture with a little light 
blue in the shaded part. The John Dory is done in choco- 
late in the shaded portions, with red brown fins and tail 
and red brown body. The gills are light blue, with lights 
in white. The spot on his body is chocolate touched with 
black, and ring round the spot pure white as are the eyes. 
These parts must be done very thickly, as the glaze runs 
off the projections, leaving the effect of creamy white. In 
every case where there are greys or greens, a touch of Red 
Brown is very telling, and it will be as well to put a few fine 
and careful touches in the gills and corner of the eyes of 
both these fishes. This should be dipped in yellow glaze. 
The vase with the sand snipe is meant to be grounded in 
pale red brown — that is, the mixture given, lightened with 
about half its bulk of white. It can be shaded from the 
bottom with pure red brown. The breasts of the birds 
are pale olive green shaded into pure white, and the dark 
parts are black. The shadows on the ground are done 
with chocolate and white and the beaks and eyes are yellow. 
It will be found a good method if shaded variants of 
any color is needed, as in the backs of these birds, to mix a 
range of tones beginning with pure black, then two of black 
to one of white, one and one, two of white to one of black, 
three, four, six, ten, twelve, and twenty parts of white to 
one of black (or any other color) and the relative tone re- 
quired will then be easier of selection than mixing as you 
go on. For treatment in white mat glaze the same colors 
and methods should be employed as for the glossy yellow 
glaze, except that the contrasts between the lights and 
darks should be more accentuated — the darks should be 
darker and the lights sharper and clearer. In the fish pot 
the sides of the lake trout should be done in yellow shaded 
with olive green, and touches of dark yellow may be intro- 
duced in the fins. The whites of the eyes must also be 
done in dark yellow with the lights in pure solid white. 
The bird vase must be grounded with red brown, shaded 
at the bottom into chocolate, and the high lights in the 
birds must be put in very solidly with white lightly tinged 
with light blue. The shadows on the white bodies should 
be done in pale blue softened with a mixture of about one- 
sixth its bulk of olive green. The rest should be done ac- 
cording to the instructions for yellow transparent gla ze 
