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KERAMIC STUDIO 
PANEL, ADAPTED FROM THE JAPANESE— HENRIETTA B. PAIST 
PANEL AND TILE 
Birds and Pine Cone Branches 
Henrietta Barclay Paist 
OUTLINE with Grey or Black water mixture. Tint the 
whole with dull Neutral Yellow or Satsuma. After firing 
model branches with tones of Wood Brown. 
The breast of the bird is a soft dull pink (Violet of Iron thin), 
the middle values Grey, and the darkest values Brown. The 
pine needles Olive or Brown Green. 
The shadowy branch in the background of the tile is Gi-ey. 
In the long narrow panel, the wings of the biixls are touched in 
the lightest parts with Yellow. The beaks of the birds also have 
a thin wash of Yellow over the Grey. A third fire may be nec- 
essary to produce the values as shown. 
HOW TO ENLARGE A DESIGN 
Jessie M. Bard 
WE will use the plate design by A. W. Heckman on page 135 
of the January, 1914, Keramic Studio, as an illustration. 
The same principle applies whether the design is made larger or 
smaller, so we will only give the instruction for enlarging. 
Decide on the width of the border you wish. 
It should be in good proportion to the space left in the cen- 
ter of the plate. Then decide how far apart you wish the gi-oups 
of flowers to be, they should not be so close together that they 
seem crowded, nor so far apart that they have no relation to 
each other. Divide the plate into as many sections as the width 
of your gfoups will allow. 
The two bands or horizontal stem lines in the border are 
placed next. Take a naiTow strip of flexible paper and measure 
from the edge of the plate to the inner or third line from the 
edge, and place a pencil mark on the paper opposite the third 
line and measure this space into the width of the border and you 
will find that it is just one-third the width of the border, so di- 
vide the width of the border on your plate into thirds and draw 
the line around the plate with a gauge or any other method you 
are in the habit of using. It is best to draw in all around the 
plate so you will be sure to get it even and you can erase the line 
where the design is to be. 
The distance for the second line can be gauged with the eye 
and drawn in. 
The top of the large flower comes just half-way between 
the space from the edge of the plate to the two stem lines, so di- 
vide that space in half over one of the division lines of the plate. 
The space from the top of the flower to the inner border line 
or the fourth line from the edge of the plate is the same as the 
width of the three flowers. Find the width of this space on your 
plate from the mark you placed there for the top of the large 
flower, using the piece of paper, and mark off the space on the 
plate, placing the center of it over the division line. 
Measure the length of your large flower and flnd what com.- 
parison it is to the length of the design and you will find that it 
is just half the length of the design, so divide the space on the 
plate from the top of the flower in half, then find the width of 
flower which is the same as the length, and mark that on the 
plate. Draw a circle for the boundary of the flower through 
these marks and then the detail of the design can be drawn in 
from the circle; if the detail is drawn fii'st it will be much harder 
to keep the form; ahvays work in as simple a way as possible. 
Next, take half the width of the large flower and measure 
the small flower from that; you will find that it reaches the small 
leaves at the sides, so draw a circle for the small flower, leaving 
the small space between the leaves and flower. 
