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114 a warm dark brown at the bottom to the palest blue, or you may have a mottled ground of but one color by varying the intensity of the tints. Turquoise blue or green are either of them beautiful used in this way. Peculiar and oftentimes beautiful effects can be produced by simply pouring liquid over a tile or plate, and letting it dry. In decorating cups, pitchers, vases, etc., having handles, it is often desirable to have the latter much darker in color than the body of the object decorate. This is effected by putting on repeated coats of color, letting each successive coat become thoroughly dry. No flattening is needed, as a general rule for such small pieces of work.

In Fig. 29, I have used one of Kate Greenaway's sket-

Fig. 29.

ches to enable me to point out some of the initial steps in landscape painting. It affords, also, an illustration of