RERAMIC STUDIO 
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TREATMENT OF STEIN 
[MENTION MODERN ORNAMENT] 
Marie C. Crilley 
f AKE black portions bronze, with grapes 
nd leaves and bands in gold outlined 
in black, the landscape in lustres with 
black outline. Use for sky, Blue Grey, for 
trees Light and Dark Green, for houses 
Yellow Brown, or Ivory, and for occasional 
roofs a red made of Orange over Ruby, the 
roads Brown and walls Blue Grey. Some of 
the houses might also have a little Blue Grey 
or Green tones. 
MEDIUMS 
THESE are the oils that are used with the 
mineral paints to make them work 
smoothly and adhere properly to the china. 
There are drying oils and non-drying oils. 
To the former class belong Dresden Thick 
Oil, Fat Oil of Turpentine, Balsam Copaiba, 
Lavender Oil and Oil of Tar. To the latter 
belong Oil of Cloves and English Grounding 
Oil. 
A very good medium for using with 
powder gold or powder colors is compound 
of equal parts of Lavender Oil, Balsam Co- 
paiba and Oil of Tar, with twenty-five drops 
of Clove Oil to an ounce of the mixture. 
This is a very useful medium indeed and 
may be utilized in tinting, when a pale color 
is desired. A better tinting medium is made 
of Balsam Copaiba with one-sixth Oil of 
Cloves; this is put into the color and then 
thinned with Oil of Lavender, which does 
not dry as quickly as turpentine. However, 
if the space to be covered is not large it is 
better to use turpentine, which, no doubt, 
will hold the color open long enough. If 
the color is held open too long after blend- 
ing, dust and lint will settle in it and mar 
the tinting. 
For ordinary painting some use Dresden 
Thick Oil with one-sixth Clove Oil, using 
turpentine to thin the color. We have seen 
Prof. Maene use Lacroix Fat Oil of Turpen- 
tine, thinning with turpentine and no other' 
medium, in washes broad and free as water 
color, but we have never succeeded with it 
ourselves. Dresden Thick Oil (some like 
Fat Oil) and Lavender are the oils for paste. 
English Grounding Oil (thinned with tur- 
pentine when very thick) is used for dusting 
on color. This is non-drying oil and it may 
stand a day after it has been padded on the 
china and it will still be right for use. It 
should never be painted on too thick, as it 
will absorb too much of the powder color 
and look opaque ; especially is this true with 
the gold colors, such as Rose^Carmine or 
Ruby Purple. 
Balsam Copaiba makes the color blend 
or flow and is the foundation of all tinting 
