Calligraphy

Hi friends, I'm going to talk to you today about calligraphy. Yesterday I heard on the radio a calligrapher explaining his job, I did not know that there was the job of calligrapher elsewhere. He explains that he does not have time to be bored, in fact, he is often called upon, both for advertising texts, marriage proposals or official invitations as a gala dinner where he must prepare each individual invitation one by one. He explained that for the moment he had an order of 4,000 personalized invitations to calligraphy. He can not make one and photocopy it, no, he must calligraphy one at a time!

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Definition

Calligraphy is the art of well forming handwriting characters.
Calligraphy is about taking care to write, to work a word, a sentence or even a whole text in an artistic way.

Classic calligraphy

In classical calligraphy, one can see all the work around historical calligraphic writings imposing to follow rules of formation of letters or orientation of the instrument.
We find, for example, Roman writings such as the Rustica or the Onciale, the various Gothic writings or even more recent writings such as the Chancellor or the Englishwoman.

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Modern calligraphy

Modern calligraphy has freed itself from some of the rules of classical calligraphy
It's a freer and more whimsical writing
The goal is to create a new style with a personal and dynamic writing.

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Tools

Old tools

This is for example bird feathers or calamas (reed cut to tip).

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The brush felt

It is a tool, similar to the felt used in primary school, it allows to get full and untied. This technique is worked with colored felt that can be used alone or mixed.

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The pen holder

This is the most classic tool for calligraphy, it can be straight or oblique depending on the type of inclination desired. There are many new or old feathers that each have their characteristics and give very different writing results.

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The brush

The brush is used to draw words. Watercolor is often used to obtain fluid colors that blend well together, but gouache can also be used.

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The chalk

It can be in the form of chalk cut in tip or felt chalk On calligraphy then on a blackboard, this tool is often used during wedding, baby shower, birthday, ... me personally, I use this technique to write my shopping list on a painting hung in my kitchen; o))

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I hope you enjoy this post! Have an happy day <3