KERAMIC STUDIO 
'37 
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A. N. X. — You will find a, good treatment for red roses in the Febru- 
ary, 1002, Keramic Studio, by Miss Jenkins. For pink roses use Gray for 
flowers and Lemon Yellow with your Rose and Pompadour. Luster is al- 
ways best used on the white china or over gold. Over goache colors you 
might possibly get a bronze effect with some lusters, but it is not worth 
trying. 
"We cannot give monograms at any stated time. We will give yours 
when we have the next lot made. To save the gold from the glasses and 
in the studio, wash off with alcohol and pass through the finest bolting 
cloth, into a bowl: when settled, pour off alcohol and let the gold dry 
quickly on back of stove, to avoid collecting more dust. This will do for 
first coats of gold, but is a little dark for finishing. 
Mrs. W. A. R. — Pompadour alone is not a. good color for Roses, it 
should be used with Rose for second painting for pink roses or Ruby Pur- 
ple, for red roses. If fired too hard it is often gray in tone. If your kiln 
does not fire as well as it did, your chimney is clogged with, soot — perhaps 
also the kiln itself. You have perhaps used too much oil. See directions 
in Keramic Studio, answers to correspondents February, 1902. Have your 
chimney cleaned and your kiln too, if possible. 
H. E. B. — Your request in regard to course of study in art, for a club 
with limited means, in a small town, was unfortunately overlooked before. 
You have given us a difficult proposition. However, we suggest that if in 
any way you can procure illustrated books on the old masters, study them 
first, then gather what material you can on modern art, from time to time 
as you find illustrated articles in magazines, etc. If you are near a large 
town, where there is a reference library, you will find the art books classi- 
fied so you can easily pick out what you need. Each member of the club 
might keep a scrap hook of everything relating to art found in magazines, 
papers, etc. , and at the end of the year those might be classified and ar- 
ranged in one book. Of course, if you had means at your disposal it would 
be easy to say, "procure such and such books, ' ' but under the circumstances, 
this is the best suggestion we can make. 
G-. — It is impossible to patch a brick lining to a kiln so that it will not 
shrink in the fire. The only thing that can be done is to push the clay 
and asbestos fiber so far into the cracks that it will "hang on" even if it 
shrinks. It makes no difference how much water you use or how dried. 
A shirt waist set for a person in mourning, might be made in a cameo 
effect, of white enamel on black, or silhouettes of black on white. Little 
modelled roses or other flowers are very effective modelled in white enamel 
over a dusted ground. White pearl effects can be made also on enamel. 
M. H. — You cannot make red jewels by mixing color with Aufsetz- 
weis. The reds are iron colors as are browns and ochres, and fire out en- 
tirely when used with Auf setzweis. You will have to buy a red enamel, or 
paint over the enamel after firing with red and fire again. The carmines 
and rubys fire all rig] it wit! i" Auf setzweis. 
If your Pompadour rubs off, it is either under fired or you have hap- 
pened on a bad tube. The iron reds are occasionally tricky like that. 
You had better use another color or a new tube. When used with Ruby 
Purple, Pompadour should be fired first, then retouched with the Purple. 
You might try washing over again with Pompadour, but if it fired out, we 
should tliink there is something wrong with this particular tube of color. 
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