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You can easily imagine what made me pick up this book. To be honest I believe I found it in a bargain section of a non-bookstore, and as a bit of a frugal Fanny I had to have it. While I pride myself on being able to "pick them" (books that is) I didn't happen to know a lot about the art before I picked this one up. Given all of the re-branding, re-vamps and just stepping up a notch with my work I opted to read this book (finally).
As with any good book, it starts off exploring the basics of the art. It explores the differing utensils with which to render calligraphy (eg. brushes, felt tip pens, calligraphy pens) as well as topics beyond just lettering such as color and borders. Along with the basics of calligraphy, including technical information about the art of penmanship itself are actual letter styles complete with directions for forming letters.
As the first part of the book explores the basics with both information and how to, the second part of the book moves on deeper into the subject. Here the author explores more decorative uses of the art showing samples from many calligraphers. The book ends with a list of useful tools for calligraphy.
While picking up this book may suit you more to focus on the first part with it's instructions it is certainly interesting to see the various uses and applications of the art (if nothing more than to "oo" and "ah" and glean inspiration) in the second part of the book.
My only critique is that I would have wanted to see more scripts outlined, however I cannot fault the author because she gives a very good working understanding of the art and various details beyond just forming letters. Thusly I give it a 5 of 5 and recommend this book to anyone wanting to start out in calligraphy.
So I wanna know, are you familiar with calligraphy? Have you ever used it? Would you want to try it? And if you have been stalling about doing so why? Let me know in the comments below! And just a reminder go ahead over and join my newsletter if you want to get even more super secret squirrel updates of utter awesomeness! Also check me out on social media so we can connect there too!
As the first part of the book explores the basics with both information and how to, the second part of the book moves on deeper into the subject. Here the author explores more decorative uses of the art showing samples from many calligraphers. The book ends with a list of useful tools for calligraphy.
While picking up this book may suit you more to focus on the first part with it's instructions it is certainly interesting to see the various uses and applications of the art (if nothing more than to "oo" and "ah" and glean inspiration) in the second part of the book.
My only critique is that I would have wanted to see more scripts outlined, however I cannot fault the author because she gives a very good working understanding of the art and various details beyond just forming letters. Thusly I give it a 5 of 5 and recommend this book to anyone wanting to start out in calligraphy.
So I wanna know, are you familiar with calligraphy? Have you ever used it? Would you want to try it? And if you have been stalling about doing so why? Let me know in the comments below! And just a reminder go ahead over and join my newsletter if you want to get even more super secret squirrel updates of utter awesomeness! Also check me out on social media so we can connect there too!
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