KERAMIC STUDIO 
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GLASS ENAMEL DECORATION 
Marie A. Frick 
MY first article treated of transparent colors entirely. We 
will now combine these with White Enamel No. 649, 
and make them opaque, and to resemble in part decorated 
china. 
With enamel there is a much broader field, comprising 
principally flowers, but fruit, birds, butterflies, and small con- 
ventional designs can be used. 
Now the trouble that so many have in using the enamel 
colors is the blistering, or boiling which takes place in the firing. 
I had no end of trouble with the ready mixed enamels, and 
discarded them entirely. However, I may not have tried 
out all of the different makes. But the same results are ob- 
tained with a certainty in the use of white enamel to which 
are added any of the transparent colors, in the proportion 
of only about 1-16 part color, as the colors thus mixed come 
out darker, and the dreaded blistering is quite overcome by 
the use of Demar Varnish and turpentine. 
I will here demonstrate a design. Outline a clump of 
three small double roses with china white, on a piece of crystal 
glass. Take one of your small slabs, and mix the white enamel 
pure with Demar varnish, and thin with turpentine, using 
the latter frequently to keep it from drying. Take a square 
shader well charged with the enamel, and completely cover 
the whole roses with as much as it will hold, and do it as quickly 
as possible. Then let this dry before you color them with 
pink, and while you are waiting for this to dry, finish the im- 
mediate background surrounding them by using transparent 
colors for green leaves and stems, etc. If you want large 
roses, say an inch in diameter, I would suggest putting the 
leaves in with white enamel and light green mixed. 
By the time you have laid in the greens around the roses, 
the latter will be dry enough to finish with color. So take any 
pink, say Carmine No. 4-7, and thin this as usual, with fat oil 
and turpentine, and work with lavender oil. Shade the roses 
on the white enamel, with pink, just as you would on china, 
but very thinly applied Mix your greens also as for china. 
In doing a white daisy, raise the petals all with white 
enamel, put the seed pod in with Albert Yellow and enamel 
mixed. Then shade the shadow side of the daisy with grey 
black. You can -give the extreme high lights an extra touch 
of white enamel, which will add to the effect. All this needs 
but one firing. 
I find the glassware more repellent than china. With 
regard to the Roman gold, it would either peel off in places, 
if too heavily applied, or the glass shows through if thinly put 
on. So I always add a drop or two of the Liquid Bright Gold, 
after the Roman Gold is mixed, and it works like a charm. 
CUP AND SAUCER— E. W. TALLY 
Outline and center of oval is 2 Yellow Green and 1 Apple Green, also the white bars. Remainder 
of design is Green Gold. 
