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KERAMIC STUDIO 
ROSE PLATE (Supplement) 
Adeline More. 
FLOWERS are painted with a very delicate wash of Blood 
Red and shaded with the same by using it a, little heavier. 
Leaves, Apple Green, Yellow Green, Albert Yellow, Shading 
Green and Brown Green. Stems, Apple Green, Yellow Green, 
Albert Yellow and a little Brown Green. Background, Albert 
Yellow, Apple Green, Violet and a little Blood Red, Shading 
Green and Copenhagen Blue. 
Second Fire — Retouch roses with Rose, centers, Rose and 
Blood Red, Yellow and Violet for the Shadows. Strengthen 
the remaining colors where it is necessary with the same colors 
as in first fire. 
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STUDIO NOTE 
Miss Mabel Dibble of Chicago, will be at the "Sweet 
Briar Farm," Charlevoix, Michigan, for the months of June, 
July and August. 
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS 
N. M. B. — Why do dark colors, especially black, chip off after firing when 
it is mixed with regular painting medium and thinned with Impenline? 
The trouble usually is that it is applied too heavily if you are using a 
good standard color. 
E. F. — Will you kindly tell me what a luncheon set consists of, and also 
the correct size of salad plates and bread and butter plates? 
Write to one of the large firms handling china and they can give you the 
information in regard to the luncheon set. Size of salad plates is 7$ inches 
and the bread and butters are 6 or 6" inches. 
E. B. — 1. Will you kindly tell me where I can find designs or something I 
can work into a design of flight of geese or storks ? Study for peacock and also 
for parrots? I desire colors if possible but black and while would be a great help. 
Also looking for naturalistic and, semi-naturalistic thistle design for vase. 
2. How can one gel these, colors so alien mentionedin the Studio, old blues, 
reds, pinks, etc., dull grey, red yellow and bright red, what do these mean, also what 
is dulled apple green and other colors? 
1. You can get almost any kind of a design by looking over the books 
in the art room of the public library. 
2. Old blues, etc., and dull grey mean quiet dull colors without any bril- 
liancy and arc obtained by greying your color. You can grey most colors 
with a little dark grey, red yellow means a yellow with a reddish tone use a 
little carnation with Albert yellow or with yellow brown. Bright red means 
a bright shade of red, this might be several colors. Yellow red or carnation 
are both bright reds. Dulled apple green applies to the same as the dull greys 
and blues. 
M. E. — Can you please tell me how to. mend a tankard that has a small 
piece right at the bottom broken out and lost. I am going to mend the crack on the 
inside with cement to hold them together but that little hole is more than 1 know 
what to do with. 
We do not know of any way to help you out of your troubles if the hole 
is very small you might cover it over with relief white but the mend would 
be noticeable. 
S. E. R. — 1 I have recently fired a set of dinner plates decorated only with 
gold which came out all spoiled. They are the best French china and seemed to 
be flawless, The spots look like acid had been put on (end the glaze taken off. 
I shall be glad if you can tell me the cause. 
2. Will you (dso tell me What medium to use in uii.ring Geo. II*. Doris' 
Vilrifiablc China Cement and what you consider the best cement jar repairing 
broken china. 
1. It sounds as though there must be some gas or fumes in your kiln, 
it may be from a defective flue. 
2, Water is probably the medium to use as that is the medium used in 
most of the cements on the market. Most any of the cements are good for 
they are all about the same thing. 
<S'. S. J. M. — Will you kindly tell me what to do to remove a blue slain on 
a Satsuma vase. The slain was on it when it was bought. I thought it might 
disappear in firing but it does not. The design does not cover it and it spoils 
the large cylinder vase. 
There is no way to remove the spot as it is probably some color that was 
in the clay when the vase was made. It is always best to plan your design so 
it covers any spot of this kind. Could you not put some tint over the spot 
so it will not be so noticeable? 
R. T. — 1 What is the matter when a piece of china does not glaze well? 
2. Is it wise to use the various glazes anrlfor which Jiriug? 
3. What other method could one use to bring out the gtazef 
4. When one, uses unfiuxed gold over color or on Belled: should, one use 
two coats of unfiuxed, or should the second coal be rovuin gold.' 
1. The piece is under-fired if it does not glaze. 
2. It is not necessary to use any glazes as most of the colors now on the 
market contain the glaze. 
3. The dry dusting method, in which the oil is painted on and the color 
dusted into it, glazes very easily though if you fire hotter you should have 
no trouble with glaze in any method. 
4. Unfiuxed gold should be used for both fires. 
E. G. T. — Flow are designs sent, in black and while, their method? 
2. Can mall colors be mixed with glaze or Jinx and get glazed surface effect? 
3. Can while gold be used successfully over liquid silver? 
1. The design may be carried out in cither charcoal or ink. 
2. Yes. 
3. Yes. 
W. J. B. — After I had fired, a dish once small black, specks appeared all 
over the china. What do you suppose the cause was? Could, I remedy it? 
2. What kind of brushes are best to use for china painting? 
3. 7s there any special pen to use for Black outlining? 
1. If the specks came out when there was no paint as well as when there 
was it was probably a poor grade of china and cannot be remedied, 
2. It depends on the work you are doing. A camel's hair brush is best 
for realistic, work. 
3. Get an outlining pen from an art dealer. 
G. L. M. — 1 How can I "fix" a piece of china that has scratches on the 
glaze? Can anything be put in and fired so as to hide the scratches? 
2. How is china given a bisque finish,? Is the piece decorated first or is 
it an overglaze given loith last fire? 
3. What number cone do you use in firing Satsuma enamel? Also enamels 
on French, and German, ware? 
4. 7s it possible to get an, enamel color chart and, also chart of dusting and 
standard colors? 
1. If the scratch is in a place so you can have the design come over it 
you could dry dust over it and it will probably cover it, there is no 
other way. 
2. Do you mean a bisque finish over the entire piece, we have not heard 
of china being decorated in that manner so do not know, the matt colors have 
no glaze and have the bisque finish, perhaps that is what you meant. 
3. Satsuma enamels are fired between an 017 and 018 cone and all others 
at about the same heat. 
4. The Robineau Pottery has a color chart of Mrs. Cherry's dusting- 
colors. But this reproduction of colors in printers ink is very unsatisfactory 
and for this reason they have not made a chart of standard colors and enamels. 
E. L. B. — Can you tell me what causes an uuglazed, circular white spot 
having a well-defined center which sometimes appears on pieces after the fire? 
It looks as if some particles had struct: it and burned there eating tin: gla-.c and. 
also the color, if it be colored. These spots come singly or in groups anil are some- 
times large and sometimes very small, I have been firing for nine years using 
gas as fuel and have never had this difficulty until the last two years. I am now 
•using a kiln purchased last summer and is satisfactory every other way. 
The trouble may be caused by dampness. Have you written to the man 1 1- 
facturers of the kiln, they may be able to help you. 
Mrs. H. G. W. — 7 have a vase with panels of green lustre that ivasn'l a, suc- 
cess, will you please tell me what I can do with it , would another coal of green 
lustre help it or another coal of Mother of Pearl? Could I put on. green malt 
color over the green lustre possibly tiro fires with the green matt. 
If the lustre is not too uneven another heavy coat of the green lustre 
may help it. The Mother of Pearl would not Very likely affect it. 
The lustre could be taken off easily with a china eraser as it. erases very 
easily. The matt green could be dry dusted on in one fire very successfully. 
E. K. — 1 After a. lustre lias been fired, can it be pointed over satisfactorily? 
2. Will the Baby Grand China kiln do good firing? 
3. 7 broke, a leg off of a bowl. Is there any thing I could cement it on 
with paint over it and then J ire? 
4. Can black paint mixed with sugar and watei be put. on with a pen? I 
have not had success in doing it. 
1. Yes. 
2. We do not know anything about the kiln. 
3. Use cement for mending china sold by all art dealers, it is mixed 
with water to the consistency of thick cream. 
4. Yes, you probably did not rub the paint smooth enough and use it 
thin enough so it flows easily from the pen. 
