Our homes and their adornments; . The amateur will follow natures coloring of the leavesand flowers, but not too closely; a little exercise of theimagination, as regards coloring, will enhance the effect. Leaves, flowers and blossoms, in high relief, are an ex-tremely handsome and very desirable decoration for plaquesand vases. The leaves may be painted either a rich yellow-green, or a rich blue-green; the flowers may be paintedeither white, canary, salmon, pink, carmine, bright crimson, darkcHmson, violet, lilac, purple, orange, maroon or variegated withwhite and either of these colors. The p
Our homes and their adornments; . The amateur will follow natures coloring of the leavesand flowers, but not too closely; a little exercise of theimagination, as regards coloring, will enhance the effect. Leaves, flowers and blossoms, in high relief, are an ex-tremely handsome and very desirable decoration for plaquesand vases. The leaves may be painted either a rich yellow-green, or a rich blue-green; the flowers may be paintedeither white, canary, salmon, pink, carmine, bright crimson, darkcHmson, violet, lilac, purple, orange, maroon or variegated withwhite and either of these colors. The petal is usually a lightertint at the center than at the outer edge; the stamens are affoldeu-vellow color. 288 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. A very fine result is obtained by painting the back-ground of the vase or plaque as a distant landscape, eitherOriental, European or One of the richest lookiiig and most effective back-grounds for plaques is obtained by starting with a lightnialiogany color, then shading and blending it into a darkmahogany color, and from that into a deep green. Thecolors to be used are Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Van-dyke Brown, Dark Zinnober Green. The work is finishedwith varnish, or two coats of amber enamel. Amber Enamel is a valuable preparation of real Amber,A,nd produces the most durable, brilliant, hard glaze, quitesimilar in appearance to pottery glaze. ETCHINGS OX LINEN. 289 After the enameling is completed and the enamel isquite dry, a novel and pleasing effect may be produced byti})ping the edges of some of the leaves or flowers with goldpaiut or silver paint, or by lighting up the background withtouches, flashes, shadings, or mottlings of gold paint orsilver paint; or the whole background without any previouspainting or enameling may be covered with gold or silverpaint; or the background may be painted in oil colors a
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