. Art crafts for amateurs . blackberry, used in Fig. 48,is full of decorative suggestiveness, but there are dozens ofother familiar plants that would do equally well. ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. Animal life, as well as the human form, should be essayedby those who feel equal to it, and it is worth noting thatmany who make but a poor hand at drawing, find they get on with modelling, thefact being that in thelatter the forms growunder the hand, andproportion is thus moreeasily secured, becauseform is felt in modelling,while in drawing it isonly seen. Another way of deco-rating clay in the plasticst
. Art crafts for amateurs . blackberry, used in Fig. 48,is full of decorative suggestiveness, but there are dozens ofother familiar plants that would do equally well. ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. Animal life, as well as the human form, should be essayedby those who feel equal to it, and it is worth noting thatmany who make but a poor hand at drawing, find they get on with modelling, thefact being that in thelatter the forms growunder the hand, andproportion is thus moreeasily secured, becauseform is felt in modelling,while in drawing it isonly seen. Another way of deco-rating clay in the plasticstate is to draw in theforms with a sharp point,which, of course, makesan incised line. This iseffective, particularlywhere colour can beused too. The panel No. 49was modelled in clay,and afterwards colouredand glazed at the potteryknown as Delia Robbia,at Birkenhead. Thispottery, like Mr. ConradDresslers near Marlow,produces work in relief, covered with an opaque glazein much the same way as the Italian work of the sixteenth. No. 52.—The Door of Spare Berth inSteerage. The by G. C. Haite. CLAY MODELLING. 77 century, which is always associated with the nameof Lucca della Robbia. A certain number of colours,blue, brown, yellow, green, and a dull pink, can begiven to the work, but as it is fired to a great heatthe palette is limited. But coloured, glazed pottery isalmost without the reach of amateurs, for, unless they canget their works glazed and fired at a pottery, it is impossiblefor them to attempt work of this nature. No. 50 is anexample of modelled pottery, and was in the ParisExhibition. Modelled terra cotta, on the other hand, can be fired
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