This is how the painting is proceeded with: On a square ground-glass slab of moderate size set your “palette” with green tints, in the following order: yellow for mixing, yellow ochre, apple green, grass green, chrome green, blue-green, brown-green, dark green, sepia, bitumen, violet of iron, etc. Take care to leave a space of about three-quarters of an inch between each color, in order to be able to mix them, for they ought not to be used pure; the effect would be bad and inharmonious.
Commence by the sky, using sky-blue and excessively light ultramarine; the lighter parts of ivory yellow, also very thin, and the distance blue green, with the slightest touch of carmine. Skies are to be done with a very large brush, and the mixing of blue and yellow, which would produce impossible green clouds, is to be avoided. Skies are worked from left to right; they are washed in very rapidly, covering also the place for the trees. A dabber may be used after.
The sky being dry, the trees are massed. Inasmuch as light tints would disappear in the firing if they were put beneath dark colors, fresh tints of apple green are commenced first, which are retouched or darkened at once before dabbling. When these tints have been laid and are dry, the foliage is done by manipulating the brush from left to right with little strokes close together, to imitate the leaves. Autumn tints are preferable to greens that are too bright. You obtain them by sepia and the ochres. Trunks of trees, light grey and sepia. Branches, bitumen. For strengthening touches use violet of iron.
Houses, ivory yellow mixed with grey; shadows, violet of iron. Ground, the lights of ivory yellow, and sometimes yellow ochre; shadows, bitumen; strong tints, brown mixed with black. Water is done with very light blue-green, retouched with grey, and occasionally revived with fresher green to reflect grass or trees.
Strengthening touches are given at the second firing, and a glaze is passed over the tints altered in the first firing.
DIRECTIONS FOR PACKING DECORATED CHINA,
When it has to be shipped away for firing.
Have the work perfectly dry; if necessary, drying in oven, which may alter the color, but firing will restore that. Wrap each piece separately in fine paper, and pack in a box large enough to admit sufficient excelsior straw or paper to keep all steady, particularly the corners. Allow good layers at the bottom and top of the boxes. By sending directions in the box with the china, its prompt return is assured. In giving instructions with the china, be explicit as to pieces requiring gilding, and amount desired. Prices quoted on list refer to simple lines only. Gilding costs extra.
FIRING GENERALLY DONE TWICE A WEEK.
| AVERAGE PRICES FOR FIRING DECORATIVE WARE. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Cup and Saucer, | 15, 20 and 25¢. | Gilding inclu’d, | 25, 30 & 35¢. |
| 6 Cup and Saucer, | (12 pieces), 75¢. | Gilding inclu’d, | $1.50 |
| 1 doz. Individ’l Butters, | 50 to 60¢. | Gilding inclu’d, | 1.00 |
| Plates, single, | 10 to 15¢. | Gilding inclu’d, | 20 to 25¢. |
| 1 doz. Plates, | $1.00 to $1.25 | Gilding inclu’d, | $1.50 to $2.00 |
| Pitchers, | 10, 15, 20, 25 and 50¢. | Gilding inclu’d, | 20 to 50¢. |
| Fruit Dishes, | 25 to 50¢. | Gilding inclu’d, | 50 to 75¢. |
| Covered Dishes, | 25, 50 and 75¢. | Gilding inclu’d, | 50¢. to $1.25 |
| Placques, | 10, 15, 20, 25 to 50¢. | Gilding inclu’d, | 20 to 75¢. |
| Tiles, 6×6 | 10¢. | ||
| Tiles, 8×8 | 15¢. | ||
| Plates Banded in any tint desired (Gilding inclu’d), per doz. | $3.00 | ||