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Title: Art crafts for amateurs
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Fred, decorative artist
Subjects: Decorative arts Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York, London, Truslove, Hanson & Comba, Ld.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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xed, and thechief masses built up. The dis-position must be resisted of tick-ling up individual forms; this canbe done when the whole of yourdecorative scheme is mapped outon the vase. But dont be afraidof a certain roughness, for youwill find when fired your crisp,angular work is much moreeffective than where everythingis smoothed away like a wax doll.You can break up the surfaceof the vase by scratching it withthe point of a tool or by dottingit, but whether this should bedone or not can only be decidedby reference to the particular workin hand. All one can say is,dont be too busy; aim at vigour, go. thefew o 74 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. simplicity rather than multiplicity, a few well placed formsbeing far more effective than a mass of detail bewildering inits complexity. Be careful to keep a wet cloth over the claywhile the work is in progress, and even spray it over withwater if the weather is hot before working, for if your clayonce dries, all chance of thumbing it is over. On the
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No. 50.—Stoneware Panel. The Vintage. Modelled byM. Roskam for Boch Freres, Brussels. other hand, when it is diy, you can carve up any part ofyour work or tool it with a steel scraper, but my impressionis that it is as well to avoid doing much in this way, butget your effect entirely by modelling in the plastic state. Before your work can be fired, it must be thoroughlydried, and this had better be done at the pottery, for if there CLAY MODELLING. 75 be any moisture in the clay when it is put in the kiln, thechances are the work will split. Flat tiles can be decorated with work in relief, or youcould scratch on your design and then take out the back-ground to a certain depth—if the tile is f--inch thick, thenyou could take out the background to a depth of f-inch—as though you were grounding out in wood carving, andyou can then model and tool up the design, adding clay inthose parts where higher relief is required ; but in the

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