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LOW BOWL, IRIS— HANNAH B.^OVERBECK 
Dust background with Grey for Flesh. Paint small squares Imperial Ivory with a little Grey for Flesh. Paint band and rest 
of design Baby Blue with a little Grey for Flesh. Tint lower part of bowl with Grey for Flesh with a little Baby Blue. 
S UBSCRIBER — Can you give any information concerning Paul de Long- 
pre, and if he has lorillen a bonk on flower painting? 
2. Also can you give instrnction in photographing flowersf I have a camera 
and would like io know how to enlarge the picture. Mine is a 4 by 6 size picture. 
Or do you have to have a special camera? Could mine he made to do? 
1. Paul de Longpre has been dead for some time. His work had some 
merit, but was more commercial than artistic work. 
2. There is no photographing more difficult than the photographing of 
flowers. It requires a good deal of practice in the time of exposure, the use of 
screens and retouching of plates, besides taste in the decorative arrangement 
of the flowers. Only experience and taste will teach you the work. You may 
have your small photographs enlarged, but it will mean the photographing of 
the small photographs with a larger camera. It would be better to start with 
a larger camera. 
M. C. H. — How can I dissolve some gold leaf in Utile rolls that the dentists 
use for filling? I have had a present of sotne of this gold and I ivoidd be grateful 
to know how I could use it on my china. 
2. Can the photo of an old homestead he transferred on a china vase, and 
what would he the process? I have the plates. 
1. The gold leaf which dentists use may be dissolved in Aqua Regia, a 
mixture of 3 parts concentrated Hydrochloric acid and 1 part concentrated 
nitric acid. You will find the formula for mixing gold for china in '".-Vnswers 
to Correspondents' May Keramic Studio, 1912. 
2. F. J. H. Abendroth, 41.5 East Ninth Street, Kansas City, Mo., has 
advertised in Keramic Studio the transfer of photographs on china. You might 
write to him. 
L. L. — A light reddish brown which had a yelloiv glow was dusted on and fired, 
then grounding oil -was applied and primrose yellow dusted over it. The previous 
pattern was gone in some places where it came out of the kiln just as if the yellow 
had eaten out the reddish brown and it looked spotted and ugly. What was the 
cause? How can it be remedied? 
Yellow always eats up the red, especially if it is fired too hot. You should 
give it as hght a fire as possible and also add enough red to allow for its filing 
away. Your piece could be oiled again and dusted, and give it a hght fire. 
R. E. — Will you kindly advise me as to which kind of zinc to hum in fire pan 
of my kiln '.' /. /■'■'< ■-nol fi-07n the chimney? 
Can /' Ik; used over lustres without firing dull? 
Can 1 ■' mil! iji ages such as Crystalline and Y ellow Shell on glazed china? 
Can you tell me where I can buy biscuit for underglaze painting? 
The powdered zinx is used; it can be bought from a drug store. 
Yes, burnish silver can be used on lustres without firing dull. 
Matt glazes that are prepared for over-glaze decoration can be used on the 
glaze; we do not know the two you mention. 
If by biscuit you mean the clay for making pottery, it can be had from anj- 
of the large wholesale houses which carry artists' supplies. Or if you mean the 
pieces ready to be decorated, you will find it in most of the larger stores which 
carry the white china for decorating. 
MRS. J. H. E. — Will you kindly tell me what I may do with a Belleek tea- 
set which I have put a design on with Hasburg's Roman gold and White gold? 
The gold does not look right and the silver is just a dull grey and will not burnish 
at cdl. 
Your set is evidently over-fired. Never use Roman gold on Belleek, as it 
over-fires too easily; use only unfluxed gold. If it is not too badly over-fired 
you can go over the Roman gold with the unfluxed and put on another wash of 
the White Gold, and give it a very light fire, for it over-fires very easily after it 
has once been over-fired. 
H. 0. J. — What colors look hestonSeji ware and how do you fire it? Also 
the .same of Satsuma? 
Do you boil the Satsuma ware in tea before painting? 
What is the best way to outline in gold? Can it he done with a pen and how? 
Does the china eraser remove colors fired on? 
Can English grounding oil he used for dusting in bands or small places 
Can you put on paint and lustre for the same fire, providing one is not upon 
the other? 
Flowers on a hoiol can he gone over ivith a light lustre can they not 
I have been outlvtmig the china with color mixed with sugar and toater and 
applying the color for first fire and repeating .same for second fire. Is that all right? 
paints are cheaper. Do you consider it all right to order them 
almost entirely for my pupils? 
Water Blue and Bright Green dusted on. are good colors tor Seji ware, also 
soft yellow enamels. White Gold and Green Gold, any colors can be used on 
the Satsuma, but cannot be dusted on satisfactorily. Enamels are most suc- 
cessful on it. Seji and Satsimaa are fired the same as china. 
Satsuma ware is boiled in tea if desired after the last fire. 
Use a No. 1 Winsor and Newton sable brush for outhning in gold, a pen 
is never as good as a brush, for you cannot get any character in your work. 
Yes, the china eraser removes colors fired on. 
Special tinting medium is better than EngUsh grounding oil for dusting, 
the latter is too heavy an oil. 
You can put paint and lustre on for the same fire if you are careful not to 
get anything into the lustre. 
It depends on the color of the flowers on the bowl whether light lustre will 
affect them. A light lustre over dark flowers has no effect. 
It is all right to use the sugar and water outline as you have been doing. 
We cannot in this magazine discuss the merits of the different makes of 
colors. They are all advertised in llie magazine and it is for you to decide; if 
a cheaper color seems to you after testing it to be as good as a higher priced 
one, get the cheaper one. 
C. B. — Is Green Gold Bronze added to Roman Gold in mixing with oils, etc., 
the correct thing to use for Green Gold? I make my own gold and wrote Sariorius, 
N. Y., for Green Gold Flux and they .sent me Green Gold Bronze, saying that was 
what they used. 
Green Gold can be made by using 2 parts Roman Gold and 1 part White 
Gold. We do not know about the Bronze. You might make a test of it or 
write to the fu-m in regard to it. 
