Fine Art

"Sumi" is the Japanese word for "ink." It is paired with "--e" to mean ink picture or "shodo" to mean ink calligraphy. The calligraphy used to adorn sumi-e paintings is the same used to practice...

Calligraphy is an easy skill to learn if you're left-handed, although the special tools are often hard to come by. Here's the basic method that I used when learning to write calligraphy with a...

Learning how to write the alphabet in calligraphy will enhance your handwriting and allow you to make beautiful handwritten notes and cards. Calligraphy can be difficult to learn at first, and...

Once you have the basics of a few calligraphy hands down, it's natural that you would want to be able to embellish them a bit. Flipping through books of old manuscripts and looking at modern...

As with just about anything, practice really does make perfect. With calligraphy, practice becomes even more important, since some hands require you to think about each stroke of your pen both...

A calligraphy exemplar is not just an example; it is a complete road map to success with a new calligraphy alphabet. A true exemplar should include both upper and lower case letters and may also...

While historically, Japanese art arose from Buddhist expression and calligraphy, modern Japanese art incorporates a wide range of traditions. Japanese art takes a variety of forms that Western...