KERAMIC STUDIO 
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PEACOCK PLACQUE, IN ENAMELS— HENRIETTA BARCLAY PAIST 
AFTER tracing and outlining the design with Mineral 
Black (water mixture) oil and dust the foreground with 
Grey Green and the panels of the border and the background 
of the border units with Satsuma or Mason's Neutral Yellow. 
Clean and lay all of the paths with Gold. (The spaces between 
the color areas of the feathers are continuous with the border 
path.) Now fire and after regilding prepare the following 
enamels. If O'Hara's enamels are used you will find New 
Green, Dark Green, Neutral Green and Blue Green. Dark 
Yellow may be dulled with Brown to give the Yellow Brown 
for the lower portion of the wing or Yellow Brown may be found 
in some other enamel palettes. If the body of the bird is 
shaded as suggested by the values of the design, it will be 
necessary to mix the Blue Green, New Green and Dark Green 
in three different lots showing a rhythm from New Green to 
Dark Green. Begin by floating the head feathers with the 
darker Green mixture (all but the eye spots) over the head. 
The Blue Green pure may be floated gradually working into 
the dark green mixture for the throat and back. Over the 
breast work in the lighter green made of the New Green and 
Dark Green going back to the Darker Green mixture for the 
legs. The .small areas of the tail are laid with Dark Green and 
the larger areas with Neutral Green. All of the eye spots with 
Blue Green. The upper portion of the wing is New Green. 
The middle portion Dark Green on Neutral Green and the 
lower portion the Yellow Brown. New Green is used in the 
smaller areas of the border units and Blue Green for the central 
spot. If one is not expert enough to float the three shades of 
enamel on the head and body of the bird a flat tone may be 
used of the Blue Green 3-4 and Dark Green 1-4 mixed. If 
the plaque is a soft glaze two coats of enamel may be used. 
If hard glaze the outlines will want to be perfected before lay- 
ing the enamels as only one coat is possible. 
