Thanks ryuhebi13, glad you enjoy it. :)

@Chess.

I am preparing myself for Buddhist sutra copying, so I bought a blue paper and silver ink. Naturally I could not help having a bit of fun with those. Below are few works from yesterday.

雲 a cloud (pictographic seal script)





月光　moonlight

oh piotr loving them all.


you add calmness to my life.

buddhist sutra will enlighten yours also i hope.

Thanks Dogsbody. Indeed, sutra copying is very mind soothing, though really difficult. Characters are extremely small (1-2 cm) and also they need to be perfectly aligned.

Here is one more in silver ink. I gave a size reference to a Polish coin (17,5mm in diameter). This calligraphy is written with a small brush made of weasel hair (highly responsive tip), with hanging arm technique (entire arm lifted) and kana script brush grip (by the end of the brush axis) for maximum freedom of movement. It is also written in one continuous brush stroke. The signature characters are smaller than 1cm.

飛龍 flying dragon

that looks so complicated and intricate. take much practice. my broken arm is painful just now---so think i'll leave the practice to you piotr:mtongue:


i truly admire your dedication.

your arm is broken :eek: actually the arm doesn't move, just hangs in the air and its bleeding heavy, the movement comes from the wrist.

Name of one of my Chinese friends

趙書聞 Zhao (surname) Shu Wen (first name)
reading: top right then down and top left.

seal script


clerical script


semi-cursive mixed with cursive


cursive script

風林火山　fast as wind, calm as forest, daring as fire, immovable as mountain.

鮮　fresh

It's the feather brush used here also? Seems like the strokes are similar to the one posted a few days back.

No, this work was written with 羊毛筆 i.e. wool brush (goat hair). it's a very soft brush and it also produces streaks of white (kasure) though the line is more consistent than the one done by a feathyer brush.

does anyone else cannot see pictures linked from the image shack or is it me? It seems that all links went down (I am running latest v. of Firefox on win7).