A sampling of personal and commissioned brushwork calligraphy art, ranging in content from aphoristic to poetic to ironic, and ranging in style from simple hand lettering to complex layered graphics-and-word imagery, including haiga.
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Letterpress Printing
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Artwork and Painting
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Graphic Design for Print
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Illustration
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Music Design & Illustration
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Typeface Design
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Fine Art Photography
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Green Man: poetry chapbooks & prints
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Scattered Leaves: Poetry Chapbook
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Five Stone Garden
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Embrace: Prints & chapbook
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Design Process: "Naked Man"
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Design Process: LGBT poetry event
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Design Process: Silverwood Art Installation
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Brushwork & Calligraphy
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Spiral Dance
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.