Painting on China in the French Style
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Marston House [Published Date: 1993]. Hardcover, 95 pp. 1994 reprint. Contents include: Introduction; Getting started; Flowers and designs; Relief enamel on bone china; kilns and firing; Glossary; Suppliers; China painters' associations and magazines; Bibliography; Index. Full color illustrations throughout. [From front jacket flap] This is Gigi Branch: I have been painting on china ever since I left school when I went to be trained in Paris by M le Tallec, the china decorator to Royalty. I simply love the traditional designs of Sevres, and since I came to live in England I have been teaching china painting in the French style as well as working on commissions in my own studio. I know how hard it is, when you are learning, to control your materials and your hand, but I know, too, how much pleasure there is when a design comes right. China painting needs a lot of practice, but it is something you can do on your own at home with little equipment, or in the company of others. Many of my p