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s5231The Rykami Arysane Sketchbook |
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This is a favorite aðitriçâ-style drawing, a portrait of my sister (Xrinâ) in her teens and my niece (Ñimænþâ) contemporary to the drawing. I was continuing exercise of the style and used their photos to execute the drawing. The selective marker palette required careful translation of the colors present in the photos. The layering of the light warm gray and apricot markers to achieve skin modeling was risky, because it was indelible. The use of a Sharpie for my sister’s hair had by now been de-rigeur, but still nerve-wracking because of its bleeding permanence. The aðitriçâ style imparts a dazzling electricity to the subject and I was high on it by the time this image was produced. The Italian title means “My little sister and little niece”. It is a counterpoint to this earlier drawing of my sister and I at war, s5231a28, and a lament that I hadn’t been a better brother; the subject was chosen because I missed her. This was a rapid study drawn 26 August 1997, Tayya 58a6, five dozen eighth phase (Ñixaþa-Alindðal Xrga), at Amherst. The image on the facing page is the bleed-through ink from “Author Beth Kobliner”, s5231a48, wonderfully participating in the experience of this page.
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