PAPIER MACHE BOWLS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22822, 1 September 1937, Page 7

PAPIER MACHE BOWLS

I JHE ART OF DECORATING a / I • EFFECTIVE SIMPLE PATTERNS | 311* CHIITSTixE CAMERON | The bowls made last week are dry | and ready to finish. ]f you find that | the bowl does not' seem perfectly f smooth, do not grudge the time to i apply another coating of priming, and 4 vet another smoothing down with sand--1 /* ° I paper. Tho perfectly even finish of the | papier maclie will give a more beauti- | ful surface when the paint is applied. | When modelling complicated things | it, is necessary to make a mould, but | try one of the bovrbj described before I venturing on anything more elaborate. | They look better with a simple pattern of decoration and perhaps contrasting | colours for inside and outside, such as I blue and yellow, led and green or | ors:nge and black. Any of the enanjels | and lacquers sold by artists' colourmen | ere suitable for papier macho. I Apply thinly with an inch brush. Let I the first coat dry thoroughly and give I two more coatings. Some of the lacquers I dry more quickly than others. Re sure 1 each coat is d»v before applying tin.' | next. If you are not able to put the 3 pattern on free-hand, prepare a strip I of paper with the, design exactly fit- | ting and trace it on with carbon.. You | "trill find the clip clothes peg good for L keeping the paper in place. Simple | Mock design or stripes look effective, | but- quaint birds and conventional blosI roms may be used if/desired. Snip paper j| with pattern to make it fit the bowl. | A stencil is easily applied, too. I will | give you one or,two suggestions for | border designs. / | If yon wish to use gold or silver, I nix the powder with gold sizd, not too thinly, or the colour will run. I use oil colour and gold size for all designs, sua finish with a clear varnish.