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KEKAMIC STUDIO 
ZINNIAS— (Supplement) 
STUDIO NOTE 
Miss M. Helen E. Montfort will open her new studio 
318 Lenox Ave., cor. 126th St., N. Y. City, on October 1st. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS 
Mrs. S. R. — If you keep your bottles of oils well corked during the 
summer, they should be in good condition to use in the fall. Fat oil of tur- 
pentine can be thinned with the spirits of turpentine. Other oils can be 
thinned with oil of cloves if you want them to keep open a long time, or with 
spirits of turpentine or alcohol if you wish them to dry quicker. 
Mrs. P. W. — Wash your gold drainings in alcohol and pass through 
bolting cloth, when settled, pour off liquid and when dry, rub up with a 
very little fat oil and spirits of turpentine. You can use the gold then for 
first washes. 
Mrs. H. B. — If your paste for gold is brown instead of yellow it is under- 
fired or some dirt or color has gotten into it. If underfired it will rub off 
easily with a knife. Overtired or pale colors can be retouched and retired 
satisfactorily. 
L. C. — Place plates or Service plates are in better taste decorated alike 
and simply. They are not the plates on which one expects to see elaborate 
decoration. We can not think that for such a purpose, any thing would be 
in good taste except a narrow conventional border in gold or color, with or 
without a monogram. The dessert set allows more latitude, but if land- 
scape or flowers are used naturalistically, they should be confined to medal- 
lions in the border. One does not care to look at a landscape, a figure or 
flowers through a veil of pudding sauce, pie crust or even ice cream. In 
making a set of plates where variety is desired, the best idea would be to 
make the same medallion border on all and insert in the medallions different 
subjects as desired. 
M. C. — Your vase dusted with black which is glazed on one side and 
not on the other, may perhaps be underfired on one side. Possibly by simply 
refiring, you may correct the trouble turning the unglazed side toward the 
hottest part of the kiln. If this does not have the desired- effect dust lightly 
with flux and retire,. If the dusted black has been put on evenly it probably 
will not scale in a second fire but thick spots are liable to scale off. 
M. A. C. — The unfluxed gold or "Hard gold" should be used over unfired 
color, as well as over fired color, although the ordinary Roman gold can be 
used over very light tints. We will publish a design for a choclate set in 
the November issue and a tea set either in October, December or January. 
P'or English violets use Banding Blue, Roman Purple and a little Black, 
Violet 1 and 2. The latter 2 may be used for tints adding Banding Blue if 
desired. 
Mary Overbeck. 
The original of this study is a tinted charcoal draw- 
ing, a most interesting treatment of the subject. For 
reproduction on porcelain, the charcoal graining will have 
to be omitted, but an attractive result may be obtained 
by tinting with Yellow Ochre, Pompadour and a little 
Black, after firing, tint again to obtain greater depth of 
color. Then paint on the design with the same colors 
adding Olive Green. Also use a touch of Orange or Al- 
bert Yellow on centers of flowers. The study is very 
attractive mounted on a dark manilla paper with a brown 
passe par tout. 
HOPS— MRS. BRAME VAN KIRK 
