Improve your letters with this easy brush pen method
1,244You just learned the basic brush calligraphy strokes. What's next? Learn how to connect the basic strokes to form letters!
When you use two different brush pen colors, you are doing a couple of things:
First, you are literally, physically breaking down the strokes to form the letters, which is the very key to creating beautiful brush calligraphy. In last week's post on tips for connecting basic strokes to form letters, I emphasized the importance of lifting to allow your letters to breathe, to give your brush calligraphy a more elegant look, and to allow you to look ahead to the next letter.
Second, you are forcing yourself to go slow. By having to pick up one pen, write a single stroke, place the pen down, pick up the next pen, and repeat, you are taking the time to do these things. What better way to ensure you are slowing down than to put a process in place that makes you pause and take a second before creating the next stroke?
Third, you are able to actually see how the basic strokes are connected. When your letters are all the same color, it is difficult to pinpoint where a stroke starts and stops, particularly when it is in the middle of the word. This is a challenge for beginners who may not necessarily know how the strokes connect to each other, where to place the next stroke, and how the connections should look after they are all put together. The different colors give a viewer a sense of where the calligrapher lifted the pen and then placed the pen back down onto the page.
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Read more about this technique on the blog at http://piecescalligraphy.com/2016/01/24/improve-your-letters-by-practicing-with-two-different-colors/.
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Supplies used:
-Sakura Koi coloring brush (http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?yhst-141105795965626+WRq756+koiset---12.html+)
-Rhodia dot pad (http://amzn.to/1P1jLmv)
-Smartphone tripod (http://amzn.to/1I8ZqUv)
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