KXRAMIC STUDIO 
17 
TREATMENT FOR DESIGN OF NARCISSUS 
Sara Wood Safford 
I WOULD suggest that the design be applied to a plain, tall 
vase. After having drawn in the design, paint the back, 
ground ; try to get a soft grey effect at the top, shading 
through violet grey into a green grey at the base. 
Use Copenhagen Grey ; with it and Violet, obtain the 
second tone, and with Grey, Violet and one of the darker 
greens find the third tone, either Grounding Green, Shading 
Green, or Dark Green. If the greys at the top are light, then 
do not use the darkest green at the base. The flowers are to 
be shaded simply for the first firing, the darker shadows 
being left till the last painting. Use for a soft grey in the 
flowers, violet and yellow mixed in the brush, use only a touch 
of the violet, enough to grey the yellow. Then a touch of 
blue and green in the darker shadows, but always with the 
" feeling" of violet in it. Leave the edges softly white "against 
the background. The leaves are to be wiped out of the back- 
ground in painting, then use Green and Violet. 
The little husk on the flower stem may be painted with 
Yellow Brown, greyed with violet. 
BERRY PLATE IN CURRANTS— JEANNE M. STEWART 
IN this design it is quite important to keep the colors clear 
and bright. Lemon Yellow, Yellow Red and Pompadour 
23 are used in the more prominent currants, with a darker 
Pompadour and a little Ruby Purple in those in shadow. 
Light and shade should be very pronounced, with high 
lights wiped out while color is still wet. 
Indicate reflected lights very strongly in first fire, which 
gives transparency. 
The prominent leaf should be kept in bluish green tones, 
using Turquoise and Yellow Green combined in a very thin 
wash for first tones, and shading with Grey for flowers. Use 
yellow and reddish brown tones in leaf to the right. 
Apply background in the second fire, shading from Ivory 
Yellow to grey and greens. A very dark green may be made 
from Shading Green and Brown Green. In third fire brighten 
the reds with Yellow Red and Pompadour 23, add shadows in 
warm greys, keeping them very soft against the background. 
Darken background in this fire and powder in darkest tones, 
before quite dry, with a powder of Shading and Brown Greens, 
equal parts. 
