The penultimate spread of the day. Left page: back-turned, a hair-clip holding a cascading vortex of hair, matt graphite contour hatching over fine charcoal powder blends. Right page: a zoom-in on a hand holding a knee, mostly blended pencil work with an almost darkroom aspiration toward subtle tonality. The arm sweeps in from the top-right and ends near the gutter. Ghost-marks in the upper-left. The binding itself becomes visible — the spine of the sketchbook, its texture of fallibility.
Carl Jeppe’s life-drawing group, Arcadia, Pretoria — 12 April 2026. Gravity-feed fountain pen on upright sketchbook, with matt graphite and fine charcoal powder blends on the tonal pages.