My mom sent me a brush calligraphy set for Christmas. It has all sorts of new toys to play with like an ink stone and a seal, but my first experiments showed that I have a few challenges ahead of me. Among other things, I don't know any Chinese, so I need to find a way to use brushes with the roman alphabet. I did see a few mentions of using brushes for western calligraphy on youtube, but the brushes were just being used for flourishes.
My ultimate goal is to develop enough of a consistent style that I can write up some of my own English haiku with brushes. In any case, it is a fine meditative exercise so I am sure that I will enjoy playing with it. It might even improve my pottery. The main technique which I use with glazing my pottery is to dip it one glaze, apply a crude design with wax, and then dip it in a second glaze. This actually works out fairly well as getting fine details out of drippy glaze is futile.
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