--- title: "T_305, sumi ink on paper | Crucible Year" url: https://peteryuill.art/works/T_305 description: "T_305 by Peter Yuill: Sumi ink on Tanxi Thickened Grade A Special Jing Pi Small 6-Foot (raw), 70 × 180 cm, 2026.05.14. Crucible Year." source: generated from the Crucible Year master database --- ![T_305, sumi ink on tanxi jing pi, raw] ![T_305, tone-stretched: what the model was shown] ![T_305: every pixel as the measuring code classes it] 70 × 180 cm · the whole sheet, uncropped # T_305 Record - **Date:** 2026.05.14 - **Dimensions:** 70 × 180 cm - **Paper:** [Tanxi Thickened Grade A Special Jing Pi Small 6-Foot (raw)](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S3) - **Ink:** [Yi De Ge Refined Ink Juice](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB4), [Boku-Undo Genso](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB5), [Yi De Ge Yun Tou Yan](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB6) [Enquire about T_305](https://peteryuill.art/enquiries?work=T_305) Availability, price or a studio visit. Peter replies himself; asking commits you to nothing. Detail at full resolution, cut by code where the brushwork is finest · select to enlarge [Details](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_305#details)[How it was read](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_305#read)[Date](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_305#date)[Materials](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_305#materials)[Related](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_305#related) Measured ## How it was read Read by the Visual Analysis Engine, version 23.8, on 2026.10.06: measured by code, then read 5 times by Claude Opus 5.5 against three reference paintings (R1 to R3), each read independent of the others. [How the engine works](https://peteryuill.art/method). WHAT THE CODE SEES ## Three views of one sheet. Left, the photograph. Centre, the tone stretch the model is shown beside it: the darkest 45% of tones spread over the whole range, so flat black, banding and stains show. Right, every pixel as the measuring code classes it: cyan black ink, deep teal translucent grey, stone the palest ink, near black bare paper. ![T_305] ![T_305, tone-stretched] ![T_305, classed by brightness] 79% of the sheet carries ink TONAL STEPS ## 2 families of tone. Every inked pixel's brightness in 64 bins, smoothed; each circled peak holds at least 4% of the ink. Two or fewer: Tonal depth is held at the bottom rung whatever the model reads. A dense sheet of many translucent passes can count low here, so Layering is left to the reads. Life inside the black: 0.050 (under 0.045 reads as flat). FIVE READS ## Five reads, agreeing on 3 of 5 qualities. Each quality placed on its ladder by each read, and the mean the engine keeps. Where reads differ, they differ by one rung; close calls resolve down. READ 1 READ 2 READ 3 READ 4 READ 5 MEAN Form 2 BUILT 2 BUILT 2 BUILT 2 BUILT 2 BUILT 2.0 Tonal depth 2 MODELLED 2 MODELLED 2 MODELLED 2 MODELLED 2 MODELLED 2.0 Layering 3 ORDERED 2 LEGIBLE 2 LEGIBLE 2 LEGIBLE 2 LEGIBLE 2.2 Composition 2 WORKING 2 WORKING 2 WORKING 2 WORKING 2 WORKING 2.0 Material and surface 1 FLAWED 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 1.8 ### READ 1, IN ITS OWN WORDS “A quarter-arc study in the manner of R3: legible layered passes and banded arcs, but crowded, blocky in the centre-right, tonally narrow, and with milky patches inside the central grey mass.” Form · BUILT Left arcs bend fluently with the brush travel; centre-right passes end in squared, slab-like blocks with stiff, stacked terminations. WEAKEST Stacked rectangular slab passes, centre-right, blunt and blocky STRONGEST Large upper arc stroke following the brush's turn Tonal depth · MODELLED Arcs carry bristle banding and grain; tonal_steps 2 and modulation 0.0495, just above flat; the mid-grey rectangles read as one even tone. WEAKEST Centre grey slabs, nearly uniform inside STRONGEST Banded dry-brush striations through the upper arc Layering · ORDERED Several translucent passes: pale under-arc, darker arcs and stepped grey blocks overlapping to the right. The order reads clearly across most of the sheet. WEAKEST Dense overlaps centre-right become hard to separate STRONGEST Translucent stepped rectangles overlapping the arcs, centre Composition · WORKING The arc sweep gives direction from top-left to the right-hand ends, but ink covers 79% of the sheet; the mass is heavy and the right margin is only partly shaped. WEAKEST Crowded centre mass; right paper strip leftover STRONGEST Sweeping arc carrying eye from top to right Material and surface · FLAWED Dry-brush edges are well used, but pale milky patches and a curved scrape mark sit inside the central grey mass, visible in colour; crease lines cross the sheet. WEAKEST Milky cloudy patches inside centre grey slabs STRONGEST Dry-brush grain at stroke ends, right FLAWS ## 3 distinct places, 1 major. Each read must name every flaw and where it is, in a ninth of the sheet. Here the reads named flaws in 3 distinct places, 12 mentions in all across 5 reads; the number in each ninth is how many times a flaw was named there. Reads agreeing on a place strengthen the evidence for one flaw; they do not multiply it. A major flaw holds Material and surface at rung 1. GEOMETRY ## Measured from the 16-bit master. The previous engine (V22) measured this sheet's master file: 2 principal ink masses traced (cyan), 4 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 17 edge segments, 59% crisp, 24% soft or bloomed, 18% broken. The rating these readings produce, the rules applied and the arithmetic, with Peter's own rating where he gave one, are in [the Archive record](https://peteryuill.art/archive/works/T_305). ## Date 2026.05.14, day 137 of the Crucible Year, one of 9 paintings from that date (6 shown). 28 works were registered in the fourteen days before. Paintings are dated by the day their batch was registered and photographed; each was finished that day or within the few days before. Phase: [P2 The Switch](https://peteryuill.art/phases/P2) (working title). Made after a calmer fortnight than 15 of the 18 dates before it. THE YEAR ## T_305 among all 402 Every painting of the year by date; this one is outlined. [Every painting from 2026.05.14](https://peteryuill.art/days/2026-05-14) · [This date in the year](https://peteryuill.art/year?follow=2026-05-14) ## Materials - **Paper:** [Tanxi Thickened Grade A Special Jing Pi Small 6-Foot (raw)](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S3), Anhui Jingxian Tanxi Xuan Paper Art Products Co., Ltd., made 2015.11.19 - **Ink MB4:** [Yi De Ge Refined Ink Juice](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB4), Yi De Ge (Beijing) - **Ink MB5:** [Boku-Undo Genso](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB5), Boku-Undo - **Ink MB6:** [Yi De Ge Yun Tou Yan](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB6), Yi De Ge (Beijing) The sheet of paper was made 3829 days before this painting. When each paper was in use [S1](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S1)[S2](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S2)[S3](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S3)[S4](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S4)[S5](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S5)[S6](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S6)[S7](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S7)[S8](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S8)[S9](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S9)[S10](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S10)[S11](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S11)[S12](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S12)[S13](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S13)[S14](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S14) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct ## Related From the same date · 5 Same paper and inks, other dates · 8 [Pattern V23 material and surface rung rose from 2026-05-24 on (rank-biserial +0.78, n 259)](https://peteryuill.art/oracle)[Pattern The floor of V23 Form rung raised in the later half of the practice (+2.30 SD, n 259)](https://peteryuill.art/oracle)[Pattern 45% of the variation in V23 Composition rung lies between batches (29 batches, n 259); with the month held constant 26%](https://peteryuill.art/oracle) [Previous T_304](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_304) [Back to all works](https://peteryuill.art/works) [Next T_308](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_308) ## Where next [T_302 same date, with 4 others](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_302)[T_246 same paper and inks, 2026.04.21](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_246)[2026.05.14 9 paintings on this date](https://peteryuill.art/days/2026-05-14)[Paper S3 every work on it](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S3)