What brush do you use to appreciate calligraphy for the first time?
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What kind of brush is good for beginners to practice calligraphy?
1 pure wool brush is not recommended.
Maybe you have heard someone say before: you must use sheep hair when you learn calligraphy for the first time. Sheep's hair is soft and can be used to practice your brushwork. This view seems reasonable, but it is groundless. According to textual research, writing with wool became popular only after the Southern Song Dynasty. But it was widely used after the early Qing Dynasty. ? Because the Qing Dynasty paid attention to roundness and delicacy and was not allowed to show off talents, only soft wool could meet the requirements and was widely used at that time. ? Before that, everyone had been using bristles. It is said that Wang Xizhi probably wrote Preface to Lanting with a eight-character pen. Besides,? Soft brush may not be able to practice brushwork, but it depends on active power, while too soft sheep hair is easy to develop the bad habit of dragging pens, which is not conducive to the cultivation of active power habit. ?
Don't use a pointed brush.
If the long front brush is made of pure animal hair, the cost is extremely high. The best long front wool brush, the length of the front part is more than six centimeters, so the output of such long front wool brush is very low, especially the delicate and smooth front part. Sometimes it takes months or even more than a year to save enough wool for this brush. In the first year of Chen's brush art museum, it took more than three years to collect seven centimeters of wool. Because the market needs it, but the output can't keep up, so many brushes will use nylon instead. The brush made of nylon is elastic, but it is not as flexible as real animal hair, which is not conducive to the cultivation of hand feeling. In addition, the long-peak brush, like the wool brush, is easy to lead to the bad habit of procrastination, so it is not recommended for beginners to use the long-peak wool brush.
Try not to use nylon brushes.
When I first learned calligraphy, I especially liked to use nylon brush, and it was pure nylon brush, because I think this brush has good effect of closing the front, enough elasticity and easy? Control? Later, with the improvement of my own level, I gradually began to dislike this kind of writing brush, and turned to pure sheep, pure wolf or wolf double these two kinds of writing brushes, and found it more handy to write.
It is recommended to use a double brush or a stiff brush.
The brush that doubles both brush is the first type, and there are three kinds of bristles: wolf hair, purple hair and chicken feathers. Purple hair is Hu Aishan rabbit hair, which is more valuable than wolf hair, and purple is not durable, so most people can't afford it. No recommendation is made here.
Although pure wolf hair and purple hair are expensive, they are not without solutions. Double-sided brush and double-sided brush are particularly recommended brush tips, usually made of better wool, supplemented by ordinary wool or nylon. In this way, the cost of pen making can be reduced, and at the same time, this double brush is beneficial to writing. Therefore, it is recommended that beginners use double-sided brushes, which are of acceptable quality and inexpensive, and are more suitable for beginners.