KERAMIC STUDIO 
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HOLLY DECORATION FOR SALAD PLATE— ANNA B. LEONARD 
THIS is a very simple design and may be treated in various 
ways. The dark band is intended to be of gold, with 
the effect of the holly leaves and berries being inlaid (or the 
berries may be in red enamel.) Draw the design in India ink 
then dust on the wide band, using the German Yellow Green 
No. 8 (which can be purchased in powder form). After 
wiping the edges very clean, keeping the band in a correct 
circle, paint the holly leaves with the Lacroix Greens — 
Emerald Stone Green, Moss Green V, Dark Green No. 7 and 
Brown Green No. 6. (All of the Lacroix colors can be pur- 
chased in powder form.) 
Paint the berries in Lacroix Capucine Red, with touches 
of Deep Red Brown and Violet of Iron. Make a fine line of 
paste dots (or beading) between the band of color and the 
band of gold, then make the settings for the enamel also in 
paste dots. After finishing the paste work, paint on a thin 
background of gold coming up to the leaves and berries. 
Take out the Yellow Green which will come under the single 
jewels (enamel dots). There is a flat line of gold in the inner 
rim of the Yellow Green, then large dots in raised paste, 
then another line. The inner leaves are all in flat lines of 
gold. 
For the second fire, the leaves and berries may be shaded, 
and after putting on another thin background of gold, and 
covering the paste neatly, the leaves and berries must be out- 
lined carefully in Deep Red Brown (Lacroix) or the Pompa- 
dour Red (German). This outline must be strong and even, 
not thick in one place and thin in another. The character of 
the leaf depends upon this outline. The red will fire over the 
gold all right, so let the little thorny edges of the leaves run 
out in sharp touches over the gold. 
For the jewels use a red enamel, which can be obtained 
from our advertisers; it fires a brilliant scarlet. A darker 
shade of green may be used for the band, an Empire Green, 
or Royal Green. Instead of having the leaves painted green, 
they may be a dark green bronze, veined with gold, then the 
berries and jewels in red enamel, or the design may be carried 
out in raised gold, or the leaves may be in green enamels. 
The beauty of the conventional designs is that so many 
suggestions may be followed, and they are useful in that re- 
spect for class work, when one does not want two thing alike. 
Our subscribers will find the back numbers always useful for 
reference, as the suggestions and combinations from the 
" Historic Ornaments" are inexhaustible. 
