RERAMIC STUDIO 
113 
HIGH BUSH CRANBERRY 
Mrs. C. L. Williams 
MINERAL COLORS 
FIRST fire — For the leaves in the foreground use Moss 
Green in the Hghtest parts, shading with Dark Green No. 
7 and Brown Green, using the latter conibination with a touch 
of black in the deepest shadows. The more distant leaves are 
painted with Apple Green and Empire Green. The turned over 
edges are painted with a combination of Apple Green and Copen 
hagen Grey to give a greenish grey tint. Wipe out the flower 
clusters, keeping the edges of the distant ones very soft. The 
small center flowers are cream color with green centers; paint 
them with YeUow Brown and Empire Green. Wash over the 
larger flowers with the thinnest tint of Ivory. For the larger 
stems use Violet of Iron and a little warm grey, running this 
into a delicate green where they join the flower clusters. Make 
the background a delicate green at the top shading into dark 
green at the bottom. Paint the shadowy leaves into the back- 
ground while wet, and pad the latter over the edges of the dis- 
tant flower clusters. Dry and dust with Ivory Glaze. 
Second fire — Strengthen the leaves and shadows with the 
same colors used before. Shade the larger flowers with a grej^ 
composed of Pearl Grey and a little Black. The little dot in the 
centers is nearlj^ black. Shade the small flowers with Brown 
Green and Yellow Brown. The little stamens may be made with 
White Enamel. Should the greens be too light retouch and fire 
again. 
WATER COLORS 
Use Whatman's paper. Sketch design very lightly. 
Moisten the paper on the back and lay it over wet blotting paper 
The leaves are painted with Hooker's Green No. I and Aurora 
Yellow for lightest tints. Use Hooker's Green No. 2. with Olive 
Green for darker tones, adding a trifle Payne's Grej^' and Alizarin 
Crimson in the deepest shadows. Wash over the larger flowers 
of the cluster with a verj^ light wash of Yellow ochre and Payne's 
Grey. Paint the stems with Madder Brown where they are 
largest, gradually ruiining into a delicate green where the3'^ join 
the flower clusters. Wash in the background with same colors 
used in the leaves, making it darkest in the lower right hand side 
In finishing work out the principal leaves and center cluster 
carefully. The small center flowers are painted with Chinese 
White and Yellow Ochre. Use Chinese White with a trifle 
Yellow Ochre on the high lights in the larger flowers as the 
paper does not give the right tint. Stamens are of Yellow Ochre 
and Chinese White. 
CUTTING GLASS IS EASY 
Diamonds Not the Only Things Needed to Sever the Brittle Substance 
IT often occurs that glass tubes of various dimensions have to 
be cut where a diamond is not at hand, as in shops and 
power plants, where oil and water gauge tubes must be neatty 
fitted. The usual method adopted is to file a small groove 
around the tube and separate the glass with a sharp rap at the 
place weakened bj^ the file. The result is not always satisfactorj? 
because the ends often break unevenly, owing to the difficult}^ of 
making a straight groove with the file. Better results are ob- 
tained when only a small incision is made with a file, just enough 
to cut through the enamel of the tube on one side, and not all 
around. While the tube is still warm from the friction of the 
file, the tube is then taken between the thumbs and forefingers 
around the tubing, close, but not covering the incision. Pres- 
sure of the thumbs invariably causes the tube to break in as 
straight and clean a line as though cut with a diamond. 
Another method is to use a fine saw blade (the finer toothed 
the better, for saw is only another form of file) and this should 
be kept fed with fine emery, carborundum of pulverized silica, 
sand or hard grit, moistened with camphor, oil, turpentine or 
water, 
A straight, steady and even stroke should be made, and 
when the work is carefulty done against a gauge the cut will be 
as true as though it had been ground. Nor is even a toothed 
blade necessary if a suitably hard and finely gritted abrasive is 
used and regularly fed between the glass and fine wire, watch 
spring or blunt, but even, blade of an ordinary table knife. The 
latter wifl be somewhat slow, of course, but a fine steel wire, run 
at high speed like a band saM^ if regularly fed with fine emery or 
carborundum, will give very satisfactory results, not only for 
cutting either straight lines or curves in window, but plate or 
optical glass, in such thickness as makes cutting with a diamond 
difficult, precarious or impossible. 
Window glass, especiaUy single strength, can be accurately 
split either in straight or curved lines by first making an incision 
through the enamel of the glass and then holding a hot iron close 
to the incision tiU a fracture is started. The fractvn-e will follow 
the hot iron with remarkable fidelity. The iron should be pre- 
ferably^ round and somewhat blunt and with a bulk}- head (like 
an ordinary fire poker) , so as to retain its heat well for long cuts, 
especially for thick sheets, to keep the fracture going when once 
started, even if two heated irons have to be used. — National Gas 
Budget. 
TRILLIUM ERECTUM. 
Joinic Hanson 
THIS plant that sends its fetid odor up to your face as you 
stoop to admire its beauty of form and color needs for its 
sepals a rich light green. 
Petals are a dull red with a hint of piu'plish brown in its 
darker shadows. Stem brownish most of the way dov\n. 
Center of flowers six pointed and same red color of petals, 
pistil yellow, stamens pale grey green with line of red length- 
wise through its center. Plant leaf, rich green, lighter rmder- 
side. 
