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2018 showpiece announcement
It’s official: I plan to have a piece in the 2018 Friends of Calligraphy summer show. Although it’s admittedly another 17 months before the piece is due, I expect its complexity and difficulty shall have merited an early start. The … Continue reading
Materials for woodblock print project
One forthcoming piece of Buddhist calligraphy will be Dhammapada 204 printed from a true woodcut. The Dhammapada is part of the Pāli Canon & is a collection of verses on various themes. It’s full of pithy material and many verses … Continue reading
Update: calligraphy woodblock
The past couple days I carved a small sample woodcut (from birch plywood). It was not difficult, just time-consuming at approx. 40 minutes per rotunda gothic letter. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that thin curved lines are actually not … Continue reading
Another calligraphy print soon?
Lately I’ve started to consider doing another Buddhist calligraphy print. Inspired by some of the very impressive work of the 15th century woodblock carvers, the idea of doing it as a true woodblock has great appeal! This seems especially appropriate … Continue reading
the Pointed Pen Calligraphy Club 