--- title: "T_387, sumi ink on paper | Crucible Year" url: https://peteryuill.art/works/T_387 description: "T_387 by Peter Yuill: Sumi ink on Huiyun Tianxuan Ge \"Dot Ink Becomes Gold\" Master Special, semi-cooked (self-sized, aged), 110 × 97 cm, 2026.10.16. Crucible Year." source: generated from the Crucible Year master database --- ![T_387, sumi ink on tianxuan ge dot ink becomes gold, semi-cooked (self-sized), aged] ![T_387, tone-stretched: what the model was shown] ![T_387: every pixel as the measuring code classes it] 110 × 97 cm · the whole sheet, uncropped # T_387 Record - **Date:** 2026.10.16 - **Dimensions:** 110 × 97 cm - **Paper:** [Huiyun Tianxuan Ge "Dot Ink Becomes Gold" Master Special, semi-cooked (self-sized, aged)](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S13) - **Ink:** [Yi De Ge Yun Tou Yan](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB6), [Boku-Undo Gentoku Super Concentrated](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB8), [Yi De Ge Pine Soot Ink](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB9), [Shisan Yue Calligraphy and Painting Ink](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB10) [Enquire about T_387](https://peteryuill.art/enquiries?work=T_387) 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_387#details)[How it was read](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_387#read)[Date](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_387#date)[Materials](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_387#materials)[Related](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_387#related) Measured ## How it was read Read by the Visual Analysis Engine, version 23.8, on 2026.10.16: 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_387] ![T_387, tone-stretched] ![T_387, classed by brightness] 83% 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: 0.036 (under 0.045 reads as flat). FIVE READS ## Five reads, agreeing on 4 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 1 THIN 1 THIN 1 THIN 1 THIN 1 THIN 1.0 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 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2.0 ### READ 1, IN ITS OWN WORDS “This radial fan is related to R3 and has good translucent layering, but the dark masses are flat inside, the sheet is crowded and the lower-right bands are blocky. Overall it is ordinary to slightly above, near R2.” Form · BUILT The fan blades follow the brush's arc and end in sharp spikes. The stacked horizontal bands at lower right are slab-like and filled in. WEAKEST Blocky horizontal slabs, lower right STRONGEST Radial blades tapering to spikes, upper left Tonal depth · THIN Measured modulation inside the darks is 0.036 (flat), with only 2 tonal steps. The large left and centre blacks are uniform; tone changes only at the overlap edges. WEAKEST Flat black interior of left fan mass STRONGEST Grainy translucent greys at the outer rim Layering · ORDERED Many translucent radial passes overlap in a readable order and build toward the centre. The outer edges show each pass, but the core blacks fuse together. WEAKEST Central darks where passes merge to black STRONGEST Translucent stacked blades around the outer rim Composition · WORKING The fan rotates around a small white hook, and the white wedge at the bottom is shaped. At 83% coverage the sheet is crowded, and the lower-right block is heavy. WEAKEST Crowded, heavy lower-right block STRONGEST White hook and wedge opening at centre bottom Material and surface · SOUND The ink is controlled and the edges are crisp. A beige stain at the top-left corner, small drops at the bottom and creases all sit away from the principal masses. WEAKEST Tinted stained paper in top-left corner STRONGEST Dry-brush grain at the blade edges FLAWS ## 4 distinct places, 0 major. Each read must name every flaw and where it is, in a ninth of the sheet. Here the reads named flaws in 4 distinct places, 15 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. 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_387). ## Date 2026.10.16, day 292 of the Crucible Year, one of 12 paintings from that date (9 shown). 0 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: [P4 S14](https://peteryuill.art/phases/P4) (working title). The first paintings registered in 21 days. THE YEAR ## T_387 among all 402 Every painting of the year by date; this one is outlined. [Every painting from 2026.10.16](https://peteryuill.art/days/2026-10-16) · [This date in the year](https://peteryuill.art/year?follow=2026-10-16) ## Materials - **Paper:** [Huiyun Tianxuan Ge "Dot Ink Becomes Gold" Master Special, semi-cooked (self-sized, aged)](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S13), Anhui Jingxian Huiyun Tianxuan Ge Xuan Paper Art Products Co., Ltd. (安徽泾县徽韵天宣阁宣纸艺术品有限公司), made 2012.10 - **Ink MB6:** [Yi De Ge Yun Tou Yan](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB6), Yi De Ge (Beijing) - **Ink MB8:** [Boku-Undo Gentoku Super Concentrated](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB8), Boku-Undo - **Ink MB9:** [Yi De Ge Pine Soot Ink](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB9), Yi De Ge (Beijing) - **Ink MB10:** [Shisan Yue Calligraphy and Painting Ink](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB10), Shisan Yue (Thirteenth Month) The first painting on S13. 11 more followed on the same paper. 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 · 8 Same paper and inks, other dates · 4 [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_386](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_386) [Back to all works](https://peteryuill.art/works) [Next T_388](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_388) ## Where next [T_386 same date, with 7 others](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_386)[T_398 same paper and inks, 2026.10.25](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_398)[2026.10.16 12 paintings on this date](https://peteryuill.art/days/2026-10-16)[Paper S13 every work on it](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S13)