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Saturday, April 3, 2010
Friday, April 2, 2010
SELECTING AND MIXING COLORS page 31
The tube colors are certainly most convenient, especially for beginners, who have not yet learned the exact proportions of oil required in preparing them to use. This knowledge comes only with experience, but is soon acquired. The colors in tubes, in course of time, if left unused, will become hard and unmanageable until reground with fresh oil. They are in no way injured when the is had dried out, leaving them hard, for they do not deteriorate with age ; but it is uninteresting and tedious work to get them back again into a manageable condition.
Those in the dry powder remain in a perfect condition for an indefinite time.
While it requires a little more time in the first place to get them into proper condition, they are in the end, perhaps, a trifle more economical and cleaner to handle ; but the minimum of money saved about equals the maximum of time and labor bestowed.
After all, it is a question of individual preference. The professional decorator in the factory invariably uses powder colors. Perhaps it would be easier for the beginner to buy tube colors, as they are ready to use ; later on, a good plan would be to have some of both,---those in daily use in tubes, those used occasionally in powder.
Owing to the wide range of colors, the amateur
Those in the dry powder remain in a perfect condition for an indefinite time.
While it requires a little more time in the first place to get them into proper condition, they are in the end, perhaps, a trifle more economical and cleaner to handle ; but the minimum of money saved about equals the maximum of time and labor bestowed.
After all, it is a question of individual preference. The professional decorator in the factory invariably uses powder colors. Perhaps it would be easier for the beginner to buy tube colors, as they are ready to use ; later on, a good plan would be to have some of both,---those in daily use in tubes, those used occasionally in powder.
Owing to the wide range of colors, the amateur
Thursday, April 1, 2010
SELECTING AND MIXING COLORS page 30
In purchasing the necessary supply of colors, there is a choice between those that are in collapsible tubes, all ready prepared for instant use, and those that are still in powder form, usually put up in small vials, with a meta top screwed on.
Every form has it particular advantages to comend it, the origin cost being about equal ; the actual amount of color is more than double that in the tubes.
The colors in both tubes and vials are identically the same in name and in shade.
Every form has it particular advantages to comend it, the origin cost being about equal ; the actual amount of color is more than double that in the tubes.
The colors in both tubes and vials are identically the same in name and in shade.
COLOR page 29
to all china-painters, and especially so to amateurs. Every shade and tint that can possibly be required, if not here shown and scheduled, may be easily obtained by combinations.
Every color shown may be obtained either in powder or in collapsible tubes.
Compared with other pigments, the number of vitrifiable colors is limited, as the manufacturer is restricted to obtaining them from a mineral basis.
They must be reduce by grinding to as fine a powder as possible, to secure an even distribution of color. They must furthermore be prepared not only to resist the heat requisite to vitrify to the surface f the ware, but must also be made to expand and contract equally with the china to which they are applied. and they must be fluxed in just such proportions as to fuse alike and at an equal degree of temperature. Lacroix'scolors are made from carefully compounded formulas, and fulfil all these requirements.
To secure the best results, it is strongly urged upon the amateur to get his art instruction and suggestions from the artist, and his merchandise from the merchant.
Every color shown may be obtained either in powder or in collapsible tubes.
Compared with other pigments, the number of vitrifiable colors is limited, as the manufacturer is restricted to obtaining them from a mineral basis.
They must be reduce by grinding to as fine a powder as possible, to secure an even distribution of color. They must furthermore be prepared not only to resist the heat requisite to vitrify to the surface f the ware, but must also be made to expand and contract equally with the china to which they are applied. and they must be fluxed in just such proportions as to fuse alike and at an equal degree of temperature. Lacroix'scolors are made from carefully compounded formulas, and fulfil all these requirements.
To secure the best results, it is strongly urged upon the amateur to get his art instruction and suggestions from the artist, and his merchandise from the merchant.
COLOR page 28
temperature required to fuse them ; ass high or strong, medium or light, respectively. The same phraseology is also applicable, for the same reasons, to china, indicating the quality of the glaze ; as, for instance, English china has noticeably a much softer glaze than French china.
A knowledge of the varying degrees in the quality of china is of great assistance in the manipulation of color, to produce the results sought.
The colors mentioned and recommended in this Manual are exclusively those from the laboratory of Lacroix of Paris. He was the first to make china-painting by amateurs a possibility ; and during the twenty-five years that he has supplied these colors they have always sustained their reputation for quality and uniformity.
They are universally recognized as standard productions, and are therefore most generally use. Moreover, they are always reliable, and may be obtained anywhere,--- two distinct advantages over ephemeral imitations that only asses a local reputation.
Nothing is to gained by using colors obtained indiscriminately from various sources.
Exact reproductions of all of Lacroix colors are given in this volume ; and as it is the first time that such a scheme has been accomplished, or even attempted, it cannot fail to be of real value
this is a color chart in the back of the book which will not be printed here.
A knowledge of the varying degrees in the quality of china is of great assistance in the manipulation of color, to produce the results sought.
The colors mentioned and recommended in this Manual are exclusively those from the laboratory of Lacroix of Paris. He was the first to make china-painting by amateurs a possibility ; and during the twenty-five years that he has supplied these colors they have always sustained their reputation for quality and uniformity.
They are universally recognized as standard productions, and are therefore most generally use. Moreover, they are always reliable, and may be obtained anywhere,--- two distinct advantages over ephemeral imitations that only asses a local reputation.
Nothing is to gained by using colors obtained indiscriminately from various sources.
Exact reproductions of all of Lacroix colors are given in this volume ; and as it is the first time that such a scheme has been accomplished, or even attempted, it cannot fail to be of real value
this is a color chart in the back of the book which will not be printed here.
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