Introduction to Chinese Calligraphy

Overview

“Now that you have worked on all the structures I showed you, I will teach you how to write on Chinese rice paper without any grid.”

In this video lesson Thomas Lam addresses the topic: How to Create a Chinese Calligraphy Artwork, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Chinese Calligraphy. Learn how to write Chinese characters through artistic practices and brush stroke techniques.

Partial transcription of the video

“How to Create a Chinese Calligraphy Artwork In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to build your own artwork. After the previous lessons, you should be able to build your Chinese characters with the strokes you have to learned and how to use the structures to build the characters. And now we are trying to not using the practise paper and write your Chinese characters on the Chinese rice paper. But it's a bit tricky. In the practise paper, there are red lines to guide you where to put the characters. However, as you will see, there are no lines on the rice paper. It's a bit tricky to make...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Chinese Calligraphy

• Level: Beginner
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