To paint ceramics

To make of new the finish to cracked enamel.

Some enamels can completely be or totally it cracks to you. If a renewed decoration of coolness, is encircled from cracked enamel, can be tried to hide designing it the leaks with matita one, hard and

Retouch the gilding
The ceramics can have edges, or decorations in gold. If they are usurate in some point it is possible to replace them to place being used the metallic powder.

To little stir powders little until that they do not catch up the wished shading, therefore to add a little
enamel without to exaggerate otherwise the finish will turn out dimmed. If necessary it is possible to add, before hardening, of the dissolvent.

To then give the varnish with a fine paint-brush. To try to apply the color with a single movement and brushstrokes decided. This will render the job preciser, avoiding than to to cross again on the signs already traced. Often it is easier to paint the edges of cups and soup dishes making it turns
king the object against the tip of the paint-brush. To give to the arm a support, so as to to be able to hold it to the just height.

It is rather difficult to paint a gilding, it is for that regards the movement of the paint-brush, is perche the gold particles stretch to separate itself from the enamel. He can himself be tried to paint a trace of the decoration with a transparent enamel to which he has been ag- reached a little color.

To pass with small brush a powder of gold a lot, pointed over the decoration. The tip must be made of frequent so that the designed lines have always the same width. If loaded lines are traced too much, can be removed with the finger or the rubber. In the case the matita one cannot be used can be rerun to the ink and one pen from the tip a lot fine. Protect the decoration with one enamel. To use an airbrush for giving 10 enamel, since the sign of the matita one could be ruined from the action of the paint-brush. The single paint-brush can be used if 10 enamel comes applied with great cure and a lot slowly.

To gild a hem
It is easier to paint the edges of cups and soup dishes being made to turn the object against the tip of the paint-brush. To give to the arm a support in order to hold it to the just height, while with the other hand it is made to turn the object to paint on the enamel trace being made one light
pressure with 10 same paint-brush. To leave to pass some minute, and therefore to collect the powder in excess with a folded sheet of paper, replacing it then in its container.

When the enamel is dry, to bathe with water the angle of a cloth and over the gilding for levare every powder trace. To remove every remaining residual of powder with one toothpick inumidito in the water. To leave to dry all the night and to polish with a cloth. To avoid the enamel that would remove polish to the finish.