RERAMIC STUDIO 
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APPLE BLOSSOMS 
Photograph by Helen Patter Treatment by H. Barclay Paist. 
HpHE mineral colors for this study are 
' Grey Green, Brown Green or Olive Green, 
Dark Green and Moss Green. Rose or Capucine 
Red for the pink of flowers (Capucine makes 
a beautiful Japanese pink if used thin) and 
Copenhagen Blue and Purple Brown for stems. 
If you are adapting these studies to a 
vase form be sure you adapt and not stick 
slavishly to the drawing as it appears in the 
panel. Study the characteristics and ar- 
range the drawing to suit your piece. 
WATER COLOR TREATMENT 
I can think of no better background for 
this study than the same soft Grey or Olive 
Green as suggested for the companion, the 
Plum. The modeling or shadow color is the 
same Green used delicately or stronger as the 
values suggest. And for the local color, the 
pink of the blossom, we may use Rose Mad- 
der or if a more Japanese effect be wished use 
Chinese Vermilion thin. The centers (stamens) 
are touched with Gamboge or Indian Yellow, 
and the leaves strengthened the same as sug- 
gested for Plum. The branches (stems) are also 
the same in color as the Plum, not as brown as 
we usually think of tree branches but grey in 
the lights and a purplish greyish brown in the 
strongest parts. 
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ARTS AND CRAFTS. 
The Arts and Crafts idea embodies the 
thought that the workman shall do his task as 
a development of his inner self, not as a thing 
imposed from a driving necessity of an out- 
ward whirling, grinding machine. If it is a 
temporary fashion, a fad of the moment, so be 
it. We rejoice in even a fleeting effort to re- 
gain our normal condition of masters of our 
hands. We, undoubtedly, live in a time when 
the highest inspiration in art lies dormant, 
waiting for a coming spring to bring it to a new 
life, but the thread of effort which appears in 
the revival of handicrafts may be attached 
to a life line to bear us to some such period of 
artistic and spiritual safety. 
Nobody, for a moment, will expect that 
we shall ever go back to a general time of hand 
labor, but the day must come when some shall 
do more and others not be obliged to do so 
much, for we still hold our vision of Utopia. 
The disciple of the modern Arts and Crafts 
school strives to reach a simplicity of living 
that lessens the daily round of useless drudgery, 
but he delights in the opportunity to use 
skilled hands for the production of some beauti- 
ful object, which serves a daily need and gives 
expression to his soul in his work. Like the old 
craftsman, 
"Gathering from the pavement's crevice, as a 
floweret of the soul, 
The nobility of labor — the long pedigree of toil. ' ' 
Swastika. 
APPLE BLOSSOMS 
