Vol. VI, No. 7 
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK 
November 1904 
OW that the Autumn Competition 
is closed, we have decided to have 
monthly competitions instead of 
the semi-yearty ones. We think in 
this way we will obtain better re 
suits as the designer will have but 
one subject to consider and a second 
advantage will be the immediate 
publishing of the prize designs. The 
first monthly competition will close 
the htteentn ot January and be published in the March nmnber. 
This delay is on account of the interruption of holiday work. 
The subject of the first competition will be found elsewhere in 
the Magazine under the head of "The Cicada." 
The awards for the Autumn Competition will be found in 
the Christmas number of Keramic Studio which we think will 
be unusually attractive. The supplement will be a prize de- 
sign ill color, and the Magazine will be filled with Christmas 
suggestions. 
The subject of Ceramics at the St. Louis Exposition wiU be 
exliaustively treated in Keramic Studio. If however, we 
attempted to cover the entire field the writer and the public 
would be exhausted long before the material, since everj' build- 
ing on the ground held more or less of porcelain or pottery and 
the miles covered in walking from one exliibit to another were 
not more in extent than the pages it would take to tell it all. 
We doubt if an exhibition could be more badty arranged in 
respect to these special subjects than the St. Louis Exposition. 
The paintings and sculpture are mainly in one building, and a 
few other subjects are well grouped, but the porcelain and 
pottery exhibits were scattered all over the wide extent of the 
exposition ground — from Dan to Beersheba was a mere step, 
comparatively. The Sevres exhibit in the French building, 
Copenhagen in the "Varied Industries", Rorstrand in the 
"Manufactures," little individual exhibits in the Art Palace, 
some in State buildings, some in the Educational building and 
still others in still more remote spots. So if bj^ chance, some 
exhibit has been overlooked, it will not be an unforgivable 
offense. 
We . are waiting for some promised illustrations before 
beginning the articles but do not expect to wait long. 
LEAGUE NOTES 
THE last regular Advisory Board meeting, held Friday, 
September i6th, at the Art Institute, was a typical Fall 
rally. The earnestness in which all the plans for the Winter 
and Spring were discussed, proved a singleness of purpose and 
the promise of eventual success. If all members would give 
the plan of education at least one thorough trial, they would 
satisfy themselves, and be just to this committee. 
We have as members of our League, naturalistic painters 
of note, whose work is a credit to any exhibition. But we must 
remember that these artists have had years of preliminary 
training in foreign countries before opening studios here. We, 
too, must have those years of training l:)efore we can hope for 
an^' degree of success. 
The Trenton manufacturers have assured us that the bowl 
and vase will be procurable in plenty of time. As soon as word 
reaches us regarding them, we will advise league members. 
The motion was carried, however, to substitute shapes already 
on the marlvet, in case of unnecessary^ delay. 
Our local club has drifted along in a prosperous mamier, 
acceptable to an uneducated public. We now, however, have 
been shaken out of our lethargy, and for the first time, have 
adopted the League study course. Our plan is, for each to 
work out the outline drawing for cup and saucer. Problem I, and 
submit it for criticism at our next meeting, Saturday, Novem- 
ber 5th, at which time we will listen to a practical talk on 
design by a professional designer. In like manner, at the fol- 
lowing meeting, the jar. Problem II, with criticisms and lecture 
hy a professional potter. This plan will be continued until 
the end of the course. 
We cordially invite all individual members, who have no 
available critics and are not willing to incur the expense of 
transportation, to send their work to be judged with ours. We 
will return it with the best criticism obtainable. 
The Triennial report will reach you soon. We are still 
unable to get the correct names and officers of some clubs. 
The old Ksts have been printed and when the new elections are 
held, we will make corrections. 
Mr. Albert Keith, treasurer of the N. L. M. P. is at present 
in Europe. Pie hopes to be at his studio again the last of 
November. 
Belle Barnett Vesev, 
President, N. L. M. P. 
BRUSH WORK 
W. P. Jervis and F. H. Rhcad 
LESSON 4. 
THIS lesson gives an example of a drawing from nature and 
the same flower conventionalized as a decoration for 
pottery. 
Now that the student has had some little practice on simple 
strokes and forms, it is time to somewhat elaborate them. 
It should be a fixed rule with the students to make their own 
natural studies, for it not only teaches them more, but they do 
much more original work. However good a study may be it is 
useful only to teach and suggest, not to slavish^ copy. It is 
altogether too prevalent a practice this watching out for 
studies by fashionable painters, and cannot be too strongly 
condemned. We repeat, make your own natural studies and 
put in them the best work you possibly can. 
The first study is intended to be painted on tinted paper, 
if a dark dull brown or amber is obtainable. If not, use a good 
brown wrapping paper with a duU surface. This latter is 
necessary as the colors will be required to be opaque, preferably 
by the addition of a little Chinese white. Start first with the 
flowers, indicating their position only and omitting the detail. 
For these use gamboge with a touch of Indian vellow and 
