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KERAMIC STUDIO 
WALTER K. TITZE - 
210 Fuller Avenue, St. Paul, Minn. 
Page Editor 
JARDINIERE 
ALL black bands and stems and outlines in conventional are 
green bronze gold or green gold. Flowers, 1 part Jas- 
mine Yellow Enamel and 1 part Jersey Cream, or with 1 part 
Jersey Cream and 1 part Canary Yellow (Cherry's). Leaves, 
Florentine Green No. 12, dots in Orange Red. Grey bands, 
1 part Pearl Grey, 1 part Albert Yellow. Naturalistic motive 
in tones of yellow, Yellow Brown, Brown Green, Violet, with 
flowers of Yellow, Yellow Brown, shadows of Yellow Brown 
and Brown Green. Leaves in Yellow Green and Shading Green, 
Warm Grey. 
Bird, head and tail in Violet of Iron with touches of Black, 
back in Yellow Brown and Brown Green with touches of Violet 
of Iron. Breast in Yellow Brown. 
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PAINT leaves with Shading Green and Yellow Green; lighter 
leaves are Apple Green and Yellow for Painting. Stems 
are Mauve and Apple Green. Apples are Yellow for Painting 
and Yellow Brown and Brown Green. The Bloom is Yellow 
Brown and Brown Green. 
Second fire— Oil bowl and dust with 2 parts Glaze for Green 
and 1 part Ivory Glaze. 
Third fire — Go over the painting again with same colors 
used in first fire. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS 
E. S. L. — / painted a vase in brown green mail using your grounding oil 
and then dusted the color on and had il fired, then applied the grounding oil 
again and color ami fired again and some of the color chipped off. So I covered 
up the spots again and fired it and much more came off. What can I do with 
the vase? How can I get the remaining color off? What could I put on if T 
could get off the color as the glaze is gone? 
We wish to correct the statement in regard to "our" grounding oil. This 
publishing company does not handle or manufacture materials of any kind. 
The oil referred to is probably made by the Robineau Pottery Co. though they 
have no grounding oil unless you refer to the "Cherry Special Oil." The 
trouble with your color is probably due to having applied the oil too heavily 
causing it to take too much color. Any color applied too heavy will chip off. 
The only thing to do is to cover the design with asphaltum to protect it, leav- 
ing only the part exposed that is to be taken off and then etch the color off 
with hydrofluoric acid or a china eraser. Great care must be taken not to get 
the acid on the hands as it is very strong. Wrap a small piece of cotton on 
the end of a stick and dip it in the acid and apply to the vase rubbing it until 
the color is removed and then hold the vase under running water to remove 
the acid. 
Oil can be applied again over the rough surface and dusted as before. 
B. W. — Would il be practicable to use Mall colors for dusting a pattern? We 
admire the beautiful appearance of enamels before firing also the dry dusted work. 
Would one proceed in the same way as with ordinary dusting? 
2. Can pottery be fired in cm ordinary china kiln (mine is Revelation No. 
,?)? Would il be advisable to try to learn to do pottery from instruction by corre- 
spondence? Do you know of any one who teaches in this way? 
3. I am sending you a drawing, would you kindly give me a pretty color 
scheme? I wish to use enamels (Cherry's) on Salsuma. T will number s/:aci-s 
to simplify the work. 
1. Matt colors could be used but they are a little rough when fired, 
hard to clean, so are not practical for many things. They are dry dusted on 
the same as any other colors. 
2. No, a pottery kiln is necessary, the heat is not great enough in an 
ordinary kiln. China can be fired in a pottery kiln. Quite a little could be 
learned by correspondence, though we do not know of anyone who is teaching it. 
3. Outline around large flowers, between the two lines and lines in 
center, Chinese Blue, also Nos. 12, 9 and 15. No. 6 is Green Gold and also 
a firm band on either side of 16 and 13. No. 4 and 8 are Jasmine, No. 14 
and remaining unnumbered circles are Lavender and centers of same are 
Chinese Blue, as is also No. 7. Nos. 5, 9 and 2 are Orange No. 3. Some 
of small circles are Chinese Blue and some Orange No. 3. Nos. 1 and 10 
are Florentine No. 2. No. 11 is Grass Green. 
/. S. — / would like to learn to make jewelry and leather. What books 
would you advise? 
Silver-work and Jewelry by H. Wilson is as good as any for jewelry 
though it is more useful to one who has some knowledge of the work. I do 
not know of any book for leather workers. 
B. G. — One member of my class has been mixing Hamburg's Roman Gold 
ivilh Campana's diluting medium for Haviland china. After firing small 
spots peeled off leaving glaze. Can you tell me what is the trouble? 
Possibly the medium is not to be used for gold. Use a thin quality of 
Garden Lavender oil or if you cannot get that use turpentine. 
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