RERAMIC STUDIO 
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PASTE FOR RAISED GOLD 
IN the -first place, the beginner should always buj^ the best 
make of paste, oils, brushes, etc., and have plenty of good 
brushes of the right kind; it is hard enough to do good work at 
the start with the best of everything. One hears it said that 
such and such old things will do for a beginner, when really the 
latter needs every possible aid more than a practised hand who 
can make shift with poor materials and poor tools when no 
better are to be had. 
What is needed, then, for good paste work is the following: 
A vial of paste in powder, a bottle of fat oil of turpentine, an 
ounce of oil of lavander, pointed water color sable brushes, 00 
on it and turning it over as before, if you find it stiffens too 
much, add a little more lavander and mix as before until the 
paste is thick and creamj^ and when turned over stays "put" 
and does not flatten out and yet is soft and easily workable; 
if it seems too thin, breath more on it and mix rmtil it stiffens. 
Take a little lump on the tip of your brush, do not allow 
the paste to work up any considerable distance into the brush 
as you will then find the brush spread and you can not make a 
fine line or dot. If j'-ou wish to make paste dots, just touch this 
lump of paste to the china, holding the brush at right angles to 
the surface, draw it straight up and it will leave a round dot 
with perhaps a little point at the top which will settle down, or 
HEMLOCK-MARY THOMAS 
To be executed in gold and red or gold and green. 
and 0, flat sables i and 2, a horn palette knife, a piece of ground 
glass 6x6 inches and a clean paint rag. The two fine brushes 
are for lines and dots, the flat sables are for large modeling. 
Talfe some of the powdered paste on j^our groimd glass 
palette, mix it with fat oil just enough to hold it together, rub 
it and turn it over with your horn palette knife, breathing on it 
at intervals. This breathing is of the utmost importance as it 
imparts a moisture to the mixture which cuts the oil and 
makes it pleasantly workable as no other medium will do. 
When the paste seems to be thoroughly mixed and fine, add a 
few drops of oil of lavander, rubbing tbe mixture, breathing 
if it does not you can make it disappear by moistening the end 
of your finger and touching the dot verj^ hghtly. Take care 
in making the dot that you do not press the brush too strongly 
on the china, if you do your dot will not be round. If >'ou 
wish to make a fine line, touch this little lump of paste to the 
china and draw it lightly but firmly along the outline; when 
the paste gives out, take up another httle dot and continue, 
starting back on the line a little way so that it will be continu- 
ous and of even width. If the line or dot is not sufficiently 
raised it may have a second application as soon as it is partially 
dry, that is, when the shine has disappeared. Do not wait 
