“Grapes” Scroll

The hardest thing about grapes is the white you leave: every berry needs a highlight, and each cluster needs its own density.

I wrote the vines with a seal-script brush — the way a vine coils and turns is really the same problem as writing a character.

Leaves in indigo mixed with ink, joined while still wet, so the edges bleed on their own.

Freehand means deleting everything that is not needed.

— Gao Xinuo · studio note