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bunch, blending into Chinese Yellow, putting in the rest 
with Peach Blossom, Deep Blue Green and Copenhagen 
Blue. Down toward the stem end of the principal bunch 
flush very rich and dark with Aztec Blue, Violet and 
Copenhagen Blue. Pad, but take care to have a separate 
dauber for your Yellow, in fact it is best not to use the same 
dauber for two colors until you have your flush pretty well 
toned down to the depth you wish it. Then if you feel 
that to blend the blues into the purples and perhaps quiet 
the Yellow where it approaches the Peach Blossom would 
be better, then work with one dauber from one color into 
the other. Wipe out stems where they catch the light 
also any that would be too blackish when painted over 
the purples and blues. Paint in stems while color is open, 
for stems and leaves use Moss Green, Brown Green, Auburn 
Brown and Dark Green No. 7. When in proper condition 
powder over Albert Yellow in background with Yellow 
Brown, carrying it over a few flowers that you wish to 
distance, also powder with Brown Green over part of leaves 
and background. Powder other parts of background if 
you feel they need strengthening. For second firing, 
strengthen with same colors used in first painting, put 
markings in flowers and prominent leaves, paint shadow 
side of stems. Third firing, put in any accents to draw- 
ing that it may need. 
WHITE VIOLETS. 
In painting white flowers, unless you are pretty sure 
you can shape your flowers with crispness and precision 
out of the wet tint, it is best to previously draw the principal 
ones on you piece. Pet us take a plate and decorate it 
semi-con ventionally with white violets. First, ring your 
plate on the banding wheel; say you have a nine and 
a half inch plate ; put a band with India ink three and a 
half inches from the edge, then another one one-third inch 
from the first toward the center, now draw on your design. 
Pet a leaf cut the upper band and come down to the second , 
drop a violet midway over the second, put in a couple of 
shadow buds or half open ones drooping in a graceful way 
quite over toward the center of the plate. Draw the rest 
of the bunch above the lines, but lay them on the curved 
lines; that is, make the bunch take the curve. Draw a 
secondary spray but keep it quite subordinate to the principal 
bunch, off to the left and about the middle of the space 
between the upper band and the rim of the plate; say a 
leaf, one well-drawn and a few indistinct violets, with 
graceful stem lines connecting or seeming to connect the 
two bunches. Pet the stems from the smaller bunch 
sweep down toward the larger one and disappear in the 
tint. Pet a bud or half-blown flower from the larger bunch 
lean or reach out toward the smaller spray. In the second 
painting you will add a shadowy little spray just at the 
edge further around. Now to begin again; after putting 
in the center lines and the design with India ink, tint the 
entire plate with Pearl Grey and Deep Blue Green, one- 
sixth of the Blue Green to five-sixths of the Pearl Grey. 
Now wipe out the high-lights in the most conspicuous ones, 
and wipe out leaves. Paint your leaves with Moss Green, 
Brown Green, Dark Green No. 7 and Yellow Brown. After 
the plate is thoroughly dry, put the shadows in the centers 
and the parts of the petals that turn over from the light in 
those that are less conspicuous. To do this without dis- 
turbing the tint underneath you must not make more 
than one stroke of the brush in one place. Put in a touch 
of Deep Red Brown just in the heart of the flower. Put 
a small brush stroke of Albert Yellow below it. Fire. 
You have lost your bands and will wonder perhaps why it 
was necessary to put them in for the first fire, but you had 
them to show you in what position to lay your bunch. 
Put them in again. Now tint plate down to the top band 
with same mixture of Pearl Grey and Deep Blue Green. 
Wipe out high-lights in both the most conspicuous and 
the secondary flowers. Paint leaves and stems, put in 
shadowy flowers that you feel it needs. Go over the 
two bands in the center of the plate with a fine line of 
Grass Green. Put the shadow buds or blooms which are 
drooping over into the banded space with Pearl Grey and 
Blue.- Third fire; go over green bands. Touch up leaves 
with Moss and Dark Green No. 7 and touches at the lower 
edges of Auburn Brown. For second and third fire rim 
or edge the plate with Roman Gold. 
DAFFODILS. 
These are stately, lovely flowers and are very decorative 
for straight standing vases. Lemon Yellow, pale for out- 
side petals, Albert Yellow for cup, shade with Grey for 
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