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RERAMIC STUDIO 
essary. On the inside of bowl a black line placed about one- 
fourth inch from the top edge completes the decoration. 
If you are inexperienced in handling the enamels they 
will probably need some retouching; if so use the same colors 
as used in laying them with the exception of the glazes or 
enamel which must be omitted. Run over the enamels in 
this case with a thin flat wash of the colors needed to even them 
or make them more brilliant. 
FULL SIZE SECTION BORDER OF PLATE— RAY E. MOTZ 
transparent tracing cloth. Place this motif on every alter- 
nate vertical line within the border and make a very clean and 
accurate tracing of it; when the entire border is ready outline 
with fine black lines and then paint in the background, sur- 
rounding the basket of fruit with Black. Next space the lines 
on the lower part of bowl as suggested in design. Paint in the 
gold lines with Mat Gold (which fires best on 
Belleek) and then parallel these with fine black 
lines. Finally the black of the top border is 
painted in, when the bowl is ready for its first 
fire. 
Second Fire — Tint the intervening panels 
with Neutral Yellow and dry while preparing 
the enamels. 
For the blue enamel use to four parts 
Banding Blue one part Blue Green and one 
part Azure Glaze. The Azure Glaze is a very 
soft enamel which gives a good transparent 
quality to the color — mix separately and rather 
stifT with Painting Medium. Afterward mix 
them all together and thin with a little Enamel 
Medium and float o n with turpentine using a 
No. 6 or 7 pointed shader. Remember these 
enamels must be floated and not painted on. 
Handle them very much as you would a water 
color, wash with the brush scarcely touching 
the porcelain but coaxing the color along. In 
this way you can obtain clear and transparent 
color and in no other way can you with enamels. 
The greenish enamel is made with equal 
parts of Apple Green and Turquoise Blue to 
which one-fourth Turquoise Glaze has been 
added. For the yellow enamel use four parts 
Egg Yellow, one part Neutral Yellow and one 
part Best White Enamel. No enamel is added 
to the orange color which is Dark Yellow 
Brown, as it would reduce the brilliancy of 
this color. When this has been accomplished 
paint in the gold pattern in panels and go over 
the gold lines on the lower part of bowl if nec- 
The enamels will appear more brilliant than they can be 
reproduced — the idea being to have the motif sparkle bril- 
liantly in its background. 
These explicit directions are written for those who have had 
little experience in doing work of this kind hoping to interest 
them in trying this simple little design. 
STUDIO NOTE 
Mrs. M. K. Schomacher, a graduate of the School of Fine 
Arts, of St. Louis, has been engaged by the Railsback-Clare- 
more Company of Los Angeles, as designer and instructor in 
conventional china painting, miniature and water color. 
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