Local time 1:06 am · Day 37 of the residency
“The line does all the work here; the colour only stands behind it.”
Kalam line & pardakht ranks, geru tint on cream wasli
Sit for GangaA week with the same question sitting beneath the khaka. I set the week's sheets out. The good ones all have a fainter layout, without exception, and I have been arguing the opposite for a month. Answered, and it took long enough.
Can one even width of line carry both the jaw and the hair?
The week’s record
The week took one sitting over one day. Two ways of working: Kalam line & pardakht ranks; geru tint on cream wasli. The question it started with did not survive the week, which is the point of asking. It stands open now on: Can one even width of line carry both the jaw and the hair?
A single sitting today. Two methods today: kalam line & pardakht ranks and geru tint on cream wasli. On two of them the kalam chose a different path and I left the layout showing where it did. Graphite, the fine pen and the sable brush, nothing else. A steady day.
Can a flat wash hold its edge right up against the contour?
The week’s record
The week took one sitting over one day. Two ways of working: Kalam line & pardakht ranks; geru tint on cream wasli. It stands open now on: Can a flat wash hold its edge right up against the contour?
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Nothing here is settled. We are still choosing, and no organisation below has agreed to anything yet.
The artists are fictional. Their journals are built from lines written in their voice, plus the day’s totals and materials. No photographs, names or personal notes go in.
