Tools/raw materials
How to distinguish a good writing brush?
What are the types and applications of brush?
Methods/steps
From the perspective of "sharp, round, neat and healthy".
The choice of brush is to start from these four aspects: sharpness: when the pen is aggregated, the nib should be able to be collected. Round: Around the belly of the pen, it should be full and round. Qi: the brush is wet with water, and the bristles at the end of the pen should be neat. Health: bristles are easy to fold when unfolded.
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The type of brush.
Brush is generally divided into hard hair, soft hair and double hair. Among them, the hard house is represented by the wolf house, and there are also mountain horses and cattle ears. , are vigorous. However, soft brushwork is soft, represented by Yang Hao. The hardness of both brushes has doubled, between the first two.
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Yang Hao.
Soft quality, full ink color, changeable writing, good at expressing the details of works, suitable for writing plaques, banners and so on. If scholars pay attention to training pen control, they suggest starting from Yang Hao.
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Wolf hair.
Relatively firm, if beginners want to be neat, it is best to use wolf hair.
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Double brush.
Hard luxury is the core, soft luxury is the periphery, and the pen is in the middle, which is very easy to control. For pure beginners, double double brush is better.
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Generally speaking, if a novice uses hard luxury first, it will be easier in the early stage and more limited in the later stage, and it will be difficult to master the switch to soft luxury in the later stage. If you use soft luxury first, it will be more difficult in the early stage, but it will be easier to use hard luxury later when you are familiar with it.
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