44 
RERAMIC STUDIO 
EXHIBITION 
The Spring Exhibition of the Brooklyn Society of Min- 
eral Painters was held at the " Dutch Arms" May 6th and 
was largely attended, and was a success also from an artistic 
standpoint. The work was judged by Mr. Hugo Froehlich of 
Pratt Institute, Miss Josephine Culbertson and Miss M. M. 
Mason of New York. 
Those receiving honorable mention were Mrs. Osgood, 
plates with peacock motive and vase with bats ; Miss Ella 
Bond, panel with pansies ; Miss Emily Peacock, plates with 
conventional border in blue and white ; Mrs. Kate C. Gove, 
jardiniere with dragons in green enamel ; Miss B. H. Proctor, 
stein with chestnut decoration; Mrs. Tuttle, vase and jug 
with conventional motive. The plates of Mrs. Osgood and 
Miss Peacock go to New York for the exhibition of the Na- 
tional League and thence to the various keramic clubs of the 
country. 
The regular monthly meeting of the Brooklyn Society of 
Mineral Painters was held at the residence of the President, 
Mrs. Osgood, 402 Madison street, May 7th. Arrangements 
were completed for a series of entertainments to be given by 
the Club in the next ten months, the proceeds to be devoted 
to a club study course next winter. 
The first entertainment will take the form of a keramic 
euchre, May 28th, with a large number of prizes painted by 
the various club members. The other entertainments pro- 
jected are a musicale, lectures and a sale of steins decorated 
by club members. 
The eighth annual exhibition of paintings at the Maine 
State Building at South Poland, Me., will open on June 9th. 
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N. H.— In painting figures or heads realistically on vases the figure 
should be enclosed in a frame which forms part of the decoration, in 
which case there should be another medallion in the opposite side if 'the 
vase has handles, or if not, there might be three medallions, each of which 
should enclose a figure, or, if only two medallions are used, it is allowable 
to paint flowers in one, though another figure is preferable. When figures 
or cupids in clouds are painted on vases it is not necessary to use the frame 
as the cloud effect can be carried around the vase. The frames can be 
made of flat or raised gold with or without enamel jewels; a design should 
be made about the neck of vase to correspond with frame. We will try 
and give an appropriate frame for a Greek figure such as you suggest. 
White drapery is always in good taste for a figure. For landscape Deep 
Blue Green, Albert Yellow, Royal or Moss Green, Copenhagen Blue 
Violet 2, Brown Green, Meissen Brown, Pompadour and Finishing Brown 
are good colors. Blues softened with grey for sky, violet and greys for 
distance, the greens grey in distance, growing more green and brown in 
foreground with red and yellow used in immediate foreground if necessary. 
N". E. M. — Yes, you can remove the color from your dish with Hydro 
fluoric acid. It is most dangerous to use, you must be careful not to in- 
hale the fumes or get any of the acid on your skin as it burns frightfully 
Warm your dish slightly, pour melted wax over the parts where you do 
not wish color removed, clean off the wax where you wish to remove 
color. The acid is in a rubber bottle, take a pointed stick and dip into 
acid, rub on the painting until color loosens then hold under running 
water to wash off color, repeat this until all is removed. Wash thoroughly 
and you can redecorate but it would be better to use gold or bronzes or 
matt effects over the parts where acid has been, as probably the glaze will 
be injured. For the Columbine design in January number Keramic 
Studio, page 193, if you wish to use Royal Green for edge we would sug- 
gest a grey green for lighter ground, the Columbine in white, yellow, 
violet, or Copenhagen Blue, stems and leaves a medium tone of the Royal 
Green, outlines in Dark Green or blue or black. If you use Dark Blue 
for edge, carry out the whole desigu in varying shades of blue, with a 
little dull green in leaves, etc., if you wish. No gold need be used. 
Mrs. H. V. B.— If your precipitate forms in lumps your sulphate must 
be too stroug, or you have not washed the sulphate all out. Try washing 
it in hot water three times, also have the solution very dilute. The ribbon 
gold is the best to use, though Pack's crystal cylinders may be all right ; if 
they are not pure gold, the alloy in them will precipitate. Use about 
the same quantity of oil as you would for paste, rubbing it down on a 
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