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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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t is made to get the effectof a portrait in oils, but a quite simple scheme of colour,with a flat treatment, in which there is no striving afterelaborate modelling, characterises the flesh. The draperyand jewels are richly coloured, jewellery being particularlywell rendered by enamels. The white of the enamel usedfor flesh is slightly tinted with pink, which can be donewith china colours, but the worker should not seek to getthe effect of china painting, but go for a simpler and morecharacteristic treatment. The old Battersea enamels were worked on copper, themetal being covered thickly with a milky opaque enamel.Upon this the design was painted as it would have been onchina, and with the same colours. Translucent enamelswere sometimes used in addition, but these Battersea snuff- 94 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. boxes and bijouterie have none of the splendour of Limogeswork : they are too much like painted china to be success-ful as enamels. In figure work the mistake many painters make is
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No. 64.— The Voices of the Night, in Translucent Enamels.Designed by Alex. Fjsher. attempting to be too realistic. In the head of Olivia,No. 60, the flesh was kept very simple, the features andcontour being slightly outlined. The hair was treated as amass, and a few gold threads were introduced. The dresswas very brilliant, looking like black velvet and silver. ENAMELLING AND ENAMELLED JEWELLERY. 95 Portraits were very successfully painted by the Limogescraftsmen, and there is a great charm about them in theirseverity. In No. 63, the head by being kept en profile iscertainly more easily worked in enamels, and the flat treat-ment, with no attempt to get depth of colour or chiaro oscuro,is quite the right treatment. Mr. Alex. Fisher is a very skilful worker in metal, and thetyro might well confine his enamelling to the frames them-selves, leaving the spaces filled with subjects to be occupiedby photographs or paintings, for badly drawn and poorlyexecuted figure compositions are works

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