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Night Song in Yao Mountains

This brush calligraphy illustrated poem is a typical example of a style of calligraphy piece I make, based on traditional haiga (the Japanese tradition of poem-paintings, which the haiku master Buson made famous). Words and imagery usually work together closely. Sometimes the words become the imagery, and they merge. The horizontal format of this style of brush poem is derived from the notebook paper, horizontal in orientation, that I prefer to use for this series of pieces. Usually two or three different brush and ink pens are used in a piece, often as many as five, each with different size brushes or nibs, giving a wide variety of brushstroke capability. 

Tags
creative process, brush pen, calligraphy, poetry, brushwork
Year
2016