Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1894 — Plaster Casts. [ARTICLE]

Plaster Casts.

Harper’s Bazar. n It is often possible .to buy pretty little figures in plaster whose only offense is the whiteness of the material of which they are made. These can be waxed or oiled by those un- ! dWstailditof theforo&is, tiuf .result Is‘entirely satisfactory to the with such figures has proved so sue* cessful, that I give the details f&f the benefit of others,. 5 A. fc) P | 'Have a mixture of ‘burnt-* Wiinq ■and white lead made so that [ colo ß phall r be Equal parts Of QU qnd' / tUrrien.Mne should} be fijsefi, plieato the figure’ with an artist’s; brush. A double layer will bring ouf the shadows GWhfera 'such • ar< needed wand jf the-.figures, rare xto be placed oh wood-work they may be, varnished. Two that I have just finished are perched on the of_a-. cherry mantel,, and no onp iwbdld suspect that' thteyi. were not a papLqf original b/uamentations for tney are so high'that details of carving could not be examined.