There are many online links from where you can learn calligraphy for free. You don't need to spend lot of money for this hobby as the material you need to learn or practive is easily available from a stationary or art/craft shops or you can buy it online as well. You need to be patience if you want to learn this 'art of lettering' or writing. (Note that calligraphy is called 'art of lettering') If
I have been concerned some way with the topics 'I have written at this blog' about various hobbies. One of may favourite hobby is calligraphy. I have learned Arabic calligraphy from a tv tutorial. As Urdu is my mother tonue, Arabic calligraphy was easier for me to learn. Later I bought a book and other calligraphy material to keep practicing for Urdu and English calligraphy. I am proud to say that
When it comes to art, China's Wu Xubin, 26, a calligraphist, can get very nosy. He uses his nose in an unconventional way - to write Chinese calligraphy . Wu began practicing the art at ten years old in the conventional way, with pen and hand, but after a sudden inspiration while in university six years ago, he went nasal with it.Thats some nosy feat ... it's JUST COOL!
Origins & Methods Of ShoDo - Japanese Calligraphy For Zen & Martial Arts was written by Dr. Jason Armstrong from downloadkarate.comOne often sees Karate and Zen Japanese calligraphy hanging in traditional dojo in Japan and the West. Shodo (Japanese calligraphy) has been practiced by some of the most famous martial artists that have ever lived and is an art to be appreciated, and contemplated. Many
It’s the party trick that puts all others to shame.
A Chinese man is able to shoot water from his eyes so accurately that he can write calligraphy from up to ten feet away.
Ru Anting, 56, of Luoyang, Henan province, sucks up the water with his nose and then sprays it through his tear ducts.
It took [...]
In this computer age, handwriting invitation letters are less common. Now you can print all your wedding stationery with a laser jet or desk jet printer in a matter of seconds. You can avoid all the errors associated with hand written addresses. But this type of printing is only suitable for weddings with casual themes. [...]
Black and white artwork is a whole subject onto itself, I simply love it, black and white are the true extreme colors, and they call for strong imagery and subject matter for them to unvail their true power. Art that is black and white seems to call for something from its viewer - calling for our input to add to its raw, blunt character. Black and white artwork impresses our retinas in such a dire
Hsu Yung Chin (徐永進) is a well-known Taiwanese calligrapher who’s doing some very interesting modern “20th-21st century” calligraphy.
Every once in a while I visit the NCKU student activity center which is a run-down building that was given to the university student clubs to do with it just about what ever it is they want. [...]
The latest Japanese Nintendo DS game ain’t anime oriented, it’s Bimoji Training — the game that hones your Japanese calligraphic skills. Also known as Beautiful Letter Training, the game trains you in the proper creation of Kanji and Kana characters with help from its included stylus that favors that of an traditional Japanese lettering brush. [...]
Evidentemente este sera un título de venta exclusiva en Japón :)
Dentro de 5 días va a salir a la venta en Japón este “juego”, en el que la práctica en la escritura de los kanji será el principal objetivo. Seguramente este título no os motive, pero es una muy buena noticia para los no-japoneses que [...]
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“This new mode was not a matter of script metamorphosing into living forms which are also readable letters, but of using script to delineate such forms. Seldom had the flexibility of the Arabic alphabet been so tested.
This practice , betwenn make optical illusions an art ( of course , far away of the digital art) [...]
I am reading about calligraphy in Herbert Read’s “A Concise history of Modern Painting”. Calligraphy is (perhaps, I’d say as I don’t really trust any theory) at the root of Abstract Expressionism. What an insight! probably not for people with a formal ed in art, but it is for me. Why that is such a blast is that I am working away at getting the verticals right in my new crosses, and contemplating that line. I feel like some Zen calligrapher meditating on the strokes! It is a meditation. I delete 100’s and suddenly one will be right.
And the idea grabbed me because it is a strong theme that emerged in the Thousand Sketches. I wanted to get those lines right, that flow. I am quite pleased with how it went, there were a lot of doodles and slowly they were more in my handwriting as it were. This is one of my favourites. And the Abstract Expressionist ones that I blew up, my friend Charles called “calligraphy of God” I was most flattere
In China calligraphy occupies a distinguished position in the field of traditional art. It is not only a means of communication, but also a means of expressing a person’s inner world in an aesthetic sense.
Ancient people paid great attention to calligraphy. To practise calligraphy requires the basic tools of ‘four treasures of study’ (writing brush, [...]
Today I had the fortune of meeting a gentleman of Afghani background by way of Tokyo and the United States. Besides being very passionate about life he shared with me some photos of his art...Islamic Calligraphy. While I have seen this type of art in the past I never really thought about the "real" art of it. I think maybe I just assumed it wasn't as much an art as just a way of writing. Naive, yes I am. Then I was shown some photographs of the most beautiful ART I think I have ever seen. It brought tears to my eyes. Honestly it did. For the rest of the day all I could think about was how truly beautiful his art work is. I am going to ask him to do some Islamic calligraphy and do two things;1) Get something tattooed on my lower middle back.2) Incorporate in to as many paintings as I possibly can.Oh and the third thing.... I'm going to paint it on the wall of my living room.I've always had a thing about Islamic art but now a whole new world has opened up. I wonder how hard it is to l
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My friend Charles coined a phrase “Calligraphy of God”
the Renaissance notion of “reading nature as a book” — or what
one might term “meditation on the calligraphy of god”.
He quotes Gyorgi Kepes to explain the idea.
Seen together, aerial maps of river estuaries and road systems,
feathers, fern leaves, branching blood vessels, nerve ganglia,
electron micrographs of crystals and the tree-like patterns of
electrical discharge-figures are connected, although they are
vastly different in place, origin, and scale. Their similarity of
form is by no means accidental.
He was reminded of this notion with some of my sketches, and asked for more in the style of “Drumbeat”, which is one of my favourites. (I have more in the style among the “Abstract” Category). At his request here are a few more.
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More thoughts on this follow, with quotes from Pollock, Kandinsky and Harold Rosenberg on Action Painting.
So how is
"Placecards for Flo"Panache Pen with black inkOne of the other things I do....calligraphy. There is a grand lady who is greatly loved by her family and friends and she is turning 85 this week. She was born to a poor family in Iowa, was raised just out of the depression years, married a guy who was a Medical Illustrator for the University of Iowa, had two children, and worked most all of her life in the fashion industry. One of her children died when he was 13. Her husband died a few years ago and she has come here to live with her daughter who happens to be my best friend in town. On top of all of the other things mentioned above, she is beautiful, gracious, generous, and lovely. In fact, as I was thinking of her while doing the calligraphy today, I realized she is one of those very rare people who simply does not have a bad quality. I can't think of one. How many of us will be thought of that way when we are 85? Now why is there a cow among the placecards?? Well, the menu is
 Calligraphy is an art dating back to the earliest day of history, and widely practiced throughout China to this day. Although it uses Chinese words as its vehicle of expression, one does not have to know Chinese to appreciate its beauty. Because in essence, Calligraphy is an abstract art. While ...
