. Art crafts for amateurs . 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 decorat
. Art crafts for amateurs . 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. No. 51.—Work in Relief. Piano Front in Miss Esther Moore. decoration of a vase with work in relief the design shouldappear to lie upon the surface securely, and not give theimpression that it will drop off of its own weight. Work intoo high relief spoils the contour of the vase by aggressivelyasserting itself. As for the designs, the adaptation of any plant form willgive you all the opportunity you require for showing tasteand skill. Such a plant as the 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. Anoth
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