Sanjiban's Correspondence with The Mother

28 April 1933

O my Mother,

I am sending a drawing in coloured pencil. It is quite unsuccessful. As the colours are waxen and as I am not accustomed to drawing with colours, I find it difficult to put shadings. The colours do not mix with one another.

It is not expected that they should mix — the technique is to apply the colours by dots or short lines very close to one another but not to mix them; it gives a much more living effect than the mixing and expresses well the play of colours and of light.

(To show the technique, the Mother made several quick colour sketches.)

You can make in that way all possible shades.

28 April 1933