Use a pen
Brush is the most important tool for calligraphy. Calligraphy pen mainly includes artistic skills such as brushwork, brushwork strength, brushwork posture and brushwork meaning.
(1) brushwork, refers to the method of using a pen. The methods of using the pen are: starting, closing, round, Fang Bi, center, flank, exposed front, hidden front, lifting pressure, turning and so on.
(2) Brush power refers to the internal strength of strokes. Whether it is vigorous strokes or soft strokes, you must have an inner sense of strength when using a pen.
(3) Gestures refer to the momentum formed when using a pen. The pen gesture is broken and the momentum remains unchanged. Although the shapes of stippling are different, the gestures are integrated.
(4) The brush strokes mean the feelings and interests expressed by brush strokes. This interest is often the expression and expression of the author's feelings in calligraphy.
structure
Chinese characters are composed of different strokes. How to combine strokes to make them beautiful and produce artistic skills of structure. Structures are also called knots, knots or frames. The structure of calligraphy often makes appropriate artistic arrangements according to the structural rules of characters and the aesthetic taste of authors. These artistic laws are density, truth, proximity, symmetry, harmony, convergence and divergence, echo and so on. The structure of calligraphy is to express the formal beauty of words according to these laws and techniques, giving viewers rich aesthetic feeling and interest, thus causing endless artistic conception and interest.
The organization and structure of an article
There are different rules and regulations. A small composition is how to arrange the stippling relationship within a word, or how to arrange between words. The big chapter is not only the planning and arrangement of the relationship between words, lines, words, inscriptions and printing. It also requires that the lines of a work should be echoed and expected, coordinated and fluent, and have a sense of integrity.
The composition of the composition has the following aspects:
① Form: specifications and forms such as nave, banners, couplets, banners, squares, sectors, etc.
Text: This is the main part of the work, and the writer should decide the layout of the composition according to the differences of words, fonts and forms.
③ Payment: that is, the signature refers to the words outside the text. There is a difference between the upper and lower segments and the long and short difference segments. The content is generally the source of the text, the object of writing, the time, the reason for writing, the postscript, etc. And the next paragraph is time, author or library, name, etc. But generally speaking, it is rare to write all of them, so most of them are short and pithy. Depending on the needs of the composition.
(4) Stamps: name stamp, museum stamp, year stamp, small stamp, idle stamp, etc. Shapes are square, long, round, oval, conformal and so on. There are white and Zhu (that is, yin and yang). In addition to the name seal, the first seal can be made. In other words, there are more stamps on the outside of the first word in the first line. Name seal can be divided into surname seal and name seal, depending on the work situation, one or both sides can be used. As for the print size, it depends on the font size. We think that small is better than good, and it must not exceed the size of the paragraph.
Ink method
Ink painting is also often valued by calligraphers. The methods of using ink are: thick ink, light ink, dry ink, thirsty ink, wet ink, dry ink, swollen ink and so on. Light ink is not used in ancient books. Dong Qichang loved it in Ming Dynasty, but it was widely used in modern times. In a word, the shades are used together, and the brush strokes penetrate each other, resulting in rich interest.