RERAMIC STUDIO 
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SOME OVERCILAZK DECORATIONS l''ROM THE CHAUTAUQUA STUDIO OU MRS. VANCE PHILUIPS. 
CHAUTAUQUA STUDIO OF MRS. VANCE PHILLIPS 
SUCH an attractive studio as that oi" Mrs. Phillips at Chau- 
tauqua is seldom seen. The rooms are large and airy, 
the windows are manj^ and picturesque, shaded with vines 
or screened with awnings and the presiding genuises are always 
bright and cheery. The spacious tables arranged for work, 
the finished pieces about the room, the flowers here and there, 
all create an atmosphere most attractive to china decorators 
in particular and every one else in general. 
There is no doubt that Mrs. Phillip's figure work on por- 
celain is better known than almost any other, and always finds 
enthusiastic followers as here at Chautauqua and her enthu- 
siasm in pottery work has greatly helped this department in 
the crafts village, where she takes manj^ of her pupils to initiate 
them into the mysteries of the potter's art. 
Mrs. Safford, who directs the decorative work and flower 
painting, has found some charming new effects this year in a 
semi-conventional treatment of roses, poppies or other flowers 
arranged about tall pieces with the stems running to the base 
here and there — not a mass or confusion of flowers but a few 
roses with their stiff thorny stems suggested or a few bright 
poppies with a shadowy suggestion of others in the back- 
ground. Her panels in violets are charming and we note with 
pleasure that much of her flower painting is done on panels. 
The studio is verj' popular and surely its success is deserved. 
The Guild of Arts and Crafts of New York, have just issued 
their circular for the coming season. Among the teachers we find 
the familiar names of Amy Mali Hicks, design; Dr. and Mrs. 
Busck, leather and metal work; Emily F. Peacock, enamel- 
ing on metal; Mary Alley Neal, water color, and Mary White, 
basketrj-. 
TREATMENT FOR MARIPOSA LILY 
Mrs. E. L. Huhbvyl 
THE dark' flowers are liglit violet and are painted with 
Banding Blue and Ruby with centers of Brown Green, 
deep touches of Ruby aromid edges of center. Stamens a 
greenish yellow. The white flowers have the same centers and 
are shaded with Copenhagen Blue and Brown Green. Leaves 
of Brown, Yellow and Black Greens. 
PEONIES (September Supplement) 
TREATMENT IN WATER COLORS 
Rhoda Holmes Nicholls 
ONE of the charms of this study is the beautiful adjust- 
ment of color, the greys of the backgound balancing the 
warm tints of the flowers. The student sliould not slight the 
drawing, which although nearly obliterated in parts, is most 
suggestive and characteristic. The center of the peonies is 
Carmine floated in wet wdth a proper proportion of Rose Mad- 
der and Cobalt towards the edges, with a clean bristle brush 
model the inside petals by removing the color and as it begins 
to dry add the outlining of the petals. For. the leaves use 
Hooker's Green No. 2, broken with Burnt Sienna and An- 
bucy's Blue. The shadow tones of the pink peonies are made 
with Burnt Sienna added to the Rose Madder. For the back- 
ground use Cobalt Blue, Lemon Yellow and Rose Madder 
broken in. Then review the whole, strengthening the accents 
of dark and picking out the lights, being careful not to ex- 
aggerate either. To have a successful studj^ keep the paper 
damp, the best means of doing this is to have wet blotting 
paper underneath. 
POTTEJiV WORK FROM MRS. PIULLU^S' STUUiO. 
