Sanjiban's Correspondence with The Mother

July 1936

Mother,

I wish to show Thee one sketch I have coloured. I could not manage with the short hand and it looks very defective. I tried to bring out the colour of the body, but it is really so difficult; I could not succeed and there is not a clarity of vision. Also I could not choose a proper background or manage with the technique — I mean the application of colours on the paper. Everything is difficult.

You must not be discouraged because it is difficult. Moreover you are progressing. It is by practising that you will form your own technique and also increase the sense of colours. The arm “en raccourci” [foreshortened] is not so bad, it can very well remain.

July 1936