this first painting is thoroughly dry you can put in the shading with the same colors. The shading can often be very much improved by wiping the color out of your brush with a dry rag, and while your painting is still moist, toning it down with the cleaned brush. This will remedy the abrupt transition from dark to light but must be carefully done, for if any turpentine be left in the brush, the work will be ruined. It is quite customary to outline the designs on china in some darker color, the outline serving to throw up the design and also to emphasize its decorative character.
In Fig. 28, is given a design, intended for a tile, but
Fig. 28.
answering for a flat vase, a pitcher or any similar object. The local tints should first be put in, using chrome green and a very little mixing yellow for the crocus leaves,
