ART FOR AMATEURS

Manawatu Herald, 6 March 1897, Page 4

ART FOR AMATEURS

CHINA DECORATION. The Art Amateur Suggests Some Dainty bnt Simple Designs For China. A pretty and effective decoration is made by drawing on china a simple flower that oan be slightly modeled with a few Straight lines—a daisy, for instance. Have all the lines very clear and distinct, separate, not crossing or running together. Then put the whole in with raising lv the daintiest possible manner, and after firing gild as lines only. It is really making a sketch in raised gold, and for a cup and Sancer, on the white china; is very dainty, with gilded rim and handle. Disks oan bs combined with it with good effeot, outlined and filled in in different ways, and sometimes use a color of enameL On ohina tha flower can be filled with a lattice of blue enamel made with tbe tiniest dots, and others outlined with the enamel and gold, but it should be a delicate color and not used heavily or freely enough to overpower the gold. The heart shaped pin tray shown in the oot, a dainty piece of Belleek, might well be left without any tinting whatever, but

If preferred it can be a very faint yellow, only to make a lemon wbite, and tbe under side a soft pink. Then paint the blossoms as delicately as possible, using warm gray first. Strengthen the details on the near side with deep, rioh purple, very thin. The warm gray will also help to soften it, and much gray green should be broken In among it. Do not oarry the purple quite to the outlines. Keep them verj soft, observing tbe light and shade of the whole flower. Put in the leaves with moss green V and light sky blue; then shade up with moss J and brown green, with the least touch ol green 7ln the darkest parts. Leave th< pointed light gray marking.