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 691 moi PASTINCLLO A Simple Hobby— Material Required— Use of Transfer Designs— Work on Chiffon and Velvet A VERY fascinating, yet simple, hobby is lines across the surface of the flower or leaf. ^ Pastinello painting, which, as its name Next take the stiff, flat hog's-hair brush, and implies, has the soft colours and tinting of draw the paste evenly all over the flower pastel painting. The effect, however, is or leaf, the object being to get a thin, but obtained in a very easy manner. not too thin, layer ol paste over the surface The worker will require an outfit of being worked. Pastinello, siniplied cilher in m Inrpfo or The next stage is the shading with ordinary oil paints, these being used in the usual method for such painting, but this shading must be carried out before the paste dries. While still wet. shake some of the powder over it, then take the flat camel's-hair brush and brush off all superfluous powder, sufficient remaining to give the painting a frosted appearance. L^ave it for twenty-four hours to dry, when it will be ready for use. The following general hints will Ix; found to be of service. If painting a large flower leaf, do it in sections, because if the paste dries before putting on the powder the result will be patchy. If painting on any thin materials, such as muslin, chiffon, etc., use a gelatine spray before putting on the paste, otherwise the oil colours are apt to run. The spray dilfuser can be bought at any artists' shop, and the solution used is made by dissolving five leaves of gelatine in a pint of warm water. When cold it forms a jelly, but is easily re-liquefied by warming. When painting on velvet, it is best not to use brushes, but to mix any of the tinted pastes with oil-colour to any desired shade, on a palette, before filling the little paper bag. Then apply the powder as usual. By means of this simple outfit an amateur artist without technical knowledge can rapidly obtain the soft and beautiful results of pastel painting small size, but each containing the same number of colour pastes, or one can buy the colours, brushes, and powder separately. For a beginner it is best to buy what is known as " The Student's Outfit," costing 5s., and consisting of eight small tubes of paste, assorted tints, one small sample paper bag, and twenty-five papers for making the same. These bags are like those used by confectioners for icing cakes, and are used for squeezing the coloured pastes through. A small box of the powder and three brushes (one small, flat hog's-hair brush, one small sable brush, and one large, flat camel's-hair brush) are also included. Large size tubes of any of the colours cost IS. each when bought separately, and a smaller size 6d., the powder being the same price, is. a large box, 6d. a small. The coloured paste can be used alone, or it may be tinted and shaded as an ordinary painting with artists' oil colours, the latter process giving the best effect. It can be applied to all kinds of materials, linen, silk, watered silk, satin, muslin, etc., also to cardboard, wood, glass, leather, etc., For the actual process, having decided what material to use, proceed as follows : If a textile, fix it down to a drawing-board with small drawing-pins in order to keep it quite flat while working. Draw out the design chosen, or if unable to draw use a transfer design, only remember to choose one outlined in yellow, as this will not show- through the finished work. Iron the design off lightly on to the material with a warm iron, then take one of the paper bags and half fill it with the colour selected, closing the upper end securely by folding it over several times. Take th3 bag between thumb and first finger of right hand and gently squeeze the paste out at the point, following tl'. outline of the flower, or leaf, or whatevci the design may be. Then make similar . osraph-fratn* in Pastinello PA and quickly by anyone. The frame iiscit can oc or ar substance