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This stunning calligraphic piece, "Reminiscences of Qinhuai River," showcases exquisite brushwork and vertical elegance, adorned with red seals that signify authenticity. What emotions does this artwork evoke in you?

#ArtAppreciation #Calligraphy #ClevelandArt
https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.31

#Calligraphy practice.

That slightly chunky, spiky look owes something to the italics of Galliard (a favourite of mine growing up) and fonts like Adelphe. I know there's a term for that style but it has completely slipped my mind.

Up till now I've been focusing on getting the basics right, and am pleased to see something like a personal style emerging. I am very much a "gotta learn the rules before you break 'em" kind of person.

Written in English round hand (slightly spikier than regulation) in India ink on graph paper, with a few crossed-out errors and smudges:

"1846.

"Hier, 22 février, j’allais à la Chambre des pairs. Il faisait beau et très froid, malgré le soleil et midi. Je vis venir rue de Tournon un homme que deux soldats emmenaient. Cet homme était blond, pâle, maigre, hagard ; trente ans à peu près, un pantalon de grosse toile, les pieds nus et écorchés dans des sabots avec des linges sanglants roulés autour des chevilles pour tenir lieu de bas ; une blouse courte, souillée de boue derrière le dos, ce qui indiquait qu’il couchait habituellement sur le pavé ; la tête nue et hérissée. Il avait sous le bras un pain. Le peuple disait autour de lui qu’il avait volé ce pain et que c’était à cause de cela qu’on l’emmenait. En passant devant la caserne de gendarmerie, un des soldats y entra, et l’homme resta à la porte gardé par l’autre soldat.

"Une voiture était arrêtée devant la porte de la caserne. C’était une berline armoriée portant aux lanternes une couronne ducale, attelée de deux chevaux gris, deux laquais en guêtres derrière. Les glaces étaient levées, mais on distinguait l’intérieur tapissé de damas bouton d’or. Le regard de l’homme fixé sur cette voiture attira le mien. Il y avait dans la voiture une femme en chapeau rose, en robe de velours noir, fraîche, blanche, belle, éblouissante, qui riait et jouait avec un charmant petit enfant de seize mois enfoui sous les rubans, les dentell

The rest of the passage, on the other side of the paper. The flourishes on "Victor Hugo" look childish, but what can you do.

"Cette femme ne voyait pas l’homme terrible qui la regardait.

"Je demeurai pensif.

"Cet homme n’était plus pour moi un homme, c’était le spectre de la misère, c’était l’apparition brusque, difforme, lugubre, en plein jour, en plein soleil, d’une révolution encore plongée dans les ténèbres, mais qui vient. Autrefois le pauvre coudoyait le riche, ce spectre rencontrait cette gloire ; mais on ne se regardait pas. On passait. Cela pouvait durer ainsi longtemps. Du moment où cet homme s’aperçoit que cette femme existe, tandis que cette femme ne s’aperçoit pas que cet homme est là, la catastrophe est inévitable.

"Victor Hugo."

Janda Fabulous Regular Font : AtoZ Font

Janda Fabulous Regular, designed by Kimberly Geswein, falls under the Handwritten, Script category & Janda Fabulous font family. Its smooth, flowing letterforms make it a versatile choice for projects that require both elegance and readability. Janda Fabulous is particularly well-suited...

https://www.atozfont.com/font/janda-fabulous-regular

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McKloud Misty Regular Font : AtoZ Font

McKloud Misty Regular, designed by Eko Bimantoro, falls under the Display category & McKloud font family. Its smooth, flowing letterforms make it a versatile choice for projects that require both elegance and readability. McKloud is particularly well-suited for Magazine, Event Posters...

https://www.atozfont.com/font/mckloud-misty-regular

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Calligraphie Japonaise

#photography #zen #fensterFreitag #windowFriday #japon #calligraphy #reflection #nature

Calligraphie Japonaise

#photography #zen #waterreflection #japon #calligraphy

Pousses de roseaux émergeants de l'eau avec leurs reflets, ressemblants à de la calligraphie Japonaise.

Enchanted Land Regular Font : AtoZ Font

Enchanted Land Regular, designed by Mans Greback, falls under the Blackletter category & Enchanted Land font family. Its smooth, flowing letterforms make it a versatile choice for projects that require both elegance and readability. Enchanted Land is particularly well-suited for Branding...

https://www.atozfont.com/font/enchanted-land-regular

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Guide for Constructing the Letters h and i (ca. 1595) by Joris Hoefnagel.

Source: The Getty

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/0cfeb726-6355-4476-9289-76f5df312f29

#animals #grotesques #calligraphy #floral #art #publicdomain

Guide for Constructing the Letters h and i (ca. 1595) by Joris Hoefnagel.

Source: The Getty

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/0cfeb726-6355-4476-9289-76f5df312f29

#animals #grotesques #calligraphy #floral #art #publicdomain

Guide for Constructing the Letters h and i (ca. 1595) by Joris Hoefnagel.

Source: The Getty

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/0cfeb726-6355-4476-9289-76f5df312f29

#animals #grotesques #calligraphy #floral #art #publicdomain

Aviators - Eternal Lullaby

Diamine Registrar's Ink, Leonardt round hand nibs, Rhodia Touch calligraphy paper

Another iron gall ink, and much better behaved than the other one! This one's fountain pen friendly, though I'm reluctant to put it in a fountain pen, I prefer to work with dip pens these days.

#eldenring #calligraphy #irongallink

The lyrics to 'Eternal Lullaby' by Aviators, hand-lettered in a blue-black ink in a LOTR-inspired style. A wax seal of a howling wolf is affixed.

'A flower left forgotten
And wished to drift in sleep
A heart stolen
Broken open
Blooms a sea of dreams
That pools within the deep

I saw the loss in your eyes
So, did it hurt to leave behind
The pieces of your soul that made us whole?
Two hearts betwixt one mind
It kills me
Now to see you throw
Your love into the dregs below
As heartbreak sings a sweet, eternal lullaby'

Today's #calligraphy practice: this now-classic copypasta from @lynnesbian (CC4.0-BY-NC-SA)

I think this nib probably needs replacing, it keeps chewing up the paper and as you can see the fibres occasionally caught in the nib drag the ink on certain strokes like the tails of "h", "k", and "a". It is a Hunt 22, on the stiffer side, not capable of the dramatic changes in line width you get with a 101 or my beloved Leonardt Principal, but good for smaller writing.

Written in English round hand on a graph paper pad:
Friday, February 20, 2026 Hunt #22 nib, India ink

"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. "actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.

—@lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space, Jan. 14, 2019 CC4-BY-NC-SA

Today's vibes

#calligraphy

#Hanoi, #Vietnam
An artist practices calligraphy at a stall. Many Vietnamese people decorate their houses with calligraphic artworks during the Vietnamese lunar new year holiday.

Photograph: Luong Thai Linh/EPA

#photography
#LunarNewYear
#calligraphy

An elderly artist practices Chinese calligraphy at a stall.

新年快乐！马年大吉！马上开心！
Happy Year of the Fire Horse!
For the occasion, I made a little "study" on the character 馬, which means horse.
Read here https://art.echoingfrog.ca/year-of-the-fire-horse-triptych for a meaning of the piece.

#Art #VisualArt #ChineseCalligraphy #calligraphy #BlackAndWhite #ink #brush #seal #ChineseSeal #YearOfTheHorse #LunarNewYear #horse #FireHorse #马 #馬 #马年 #丙午 #ChineseIdioms #power #fire #balance #change

A Chinese calligraphy triptych of the character mǎ, which means horse, in three different styles.
The left side mǎ is a more traditional script but with a twist, where strokes are a bit messy and blurry, the "hooves" of the horse almost like the ink was splashed. At the top left corner of the character is a swatch of red/orange paint to represent fire.
The middle mǎ is in semi-cursive, with the top part of the character that seems to be hanging off a cliff edge.
The right mǎ is also in semi-cursive but a different style. In this one, the lower part of the character, the legs or hooves of the horse, is made up of one single wavy stroke, almost like a wave, and seems to be pushing the rest of the character ahead, like ten thousand horses galloping.
In between the characters, from left to right, written in regular traditional script are: bǐng wǔ which means Year of the Fire Horse, xuán yá lè mǎ which means "to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice" or to ward off disaster at the critical moment, and wàn mǎ bēn téng which means "ten thousand horses galloping", or going full steam ahead.
Top right corner seal says chàng xiǎng, meaning to give free rein to one's imagination. It has an irregular oval shape, it's a zhuwen or yang seal (red character on white background), written in ancient bronzeware script. Bottom left corner seal is my Chinese name Dài yànlíng. It is square, it's a baiwen or yin seal (white character on red background) and written in seal script.

Year of the Fire Horse Triptych

February 17, 2026

新年快乐！马年大吉！马上开心！
Happy New Year! Wishing you a prosperous Year of the Horse! May you be happy from now on!

For the occasion, I made a little “study” on the character 馬, which means horse. Three different styles that became a triptych.

There are two idioms I like related to the horse, which could seem antithetical at first. But I think they actually complement and balance each other.

悬崖勒马 xuán yá lè mǎ

which, literally, means “to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice”.
This idiom means to wake up to danger or to ward off disaster at the critical moment, to stop before it's too late.
To me, it tells the importance of staying vigilant so as to avert danger before crossing the point of no return. But it also emphasizes the fact that course correction, or even redemption if we are being a bit dramatic, is always possible, even at the very last moment.
And I think we've come to a point in history when we're at the edge of the precipice and it's time to change the course of things, as hard as it may be to rein in a horse that is on fire.
And so it takes me to the second idiom.

万马奔腾 wàn mǎ bēn téng

which, literally, means “(like) ten thousand horses galloping”. In other words, going full steam ahead.
The poets of the Song Dynasty started using this image of sheer grandeur to describe the sometimes overwhelming power of natural elements, like waterfalls or ocean waves.
There's a sense of momentum that feels unstoppable and powerful. So, it might seem in complete contradiction with the previous idiom. We could feel some sense of powerlessness in the face of this vicious cycle of endless destruction we're currently in, and like it's impossible to actually avoid falling off the cliff.
But we could also think of those ten thousand horses galloping as the energy of collective action. There is power in numbers and I think, or at least I want to believe, that there are many more of us who want to change the course of things to ride towards a better future than the few leading us into the precipice.

So there you have it, with the power of the collective, we can still stop all this and decide to go full steam ahead in a different direction. Of course, it won't be easy. This year is the year of the Fire Horse 丙午. The Heavenly stem 丙 is yang fire and the Earthly branch 午 is also yang fire, so not a very balanced year to say the least.
But just like the horse, let's use our vitality and our passion, let's be brave, let's be relentless, and let's be wise. And with the unstoppable power of an ocean wave, we'll be able to balance and control the fire.

This triptych can be read both ways.
If we are reading it right to left, as were written historical Chinese texts, and as calligraphy is still usually written, then it would be: with the unstoppable power of ten thousand horses galloping, we can avert disaster and rein in the one horse at the edge of the precipice, tame the fire horse and find balance again.

And if we are reading it left to right, as in modern day writings, then it would be: the fire horse, with all the unbalanced power of its yang fire, has become uncontrollable and has led us to the edge of the precipice. But it is still time to rein it in, and with the balancing power of an ocean wave like ten thousand horses galloping, we can change the course of things and ride away towards a better future.

#Art #VisualArt #ChineseCalligraphy #calligraphy #BlackAndWhite #ink #brush #seal #ChineseSeal #YearOfTheHorse #LunarNewYear #horse #FireHorse #马 #馬 #马年 #丙午 #ChineseIdioms #power #fire #balance #change

More #calligraphy practice. Being left-handed and using a pilot parallel pen required inverting the pen strokes used to write this alphabet. I need to pull the pen's tip towards my hand as I write, like a right-handed person would, instead of pushing it away.

Notebook with calligraphy exercises. The exercise text reads: "Jojo. Outer Wilds. Abdicate. Disolvencia. Fastnachtskrapfen, der. 2026-02-17."

Happy lunar new year! 恭喜發財!

Here's a little #calligraphy piece I did on stream yesterday. (I stream art and music sometimes! https://twitch.tv/laogeodritt )

The horse is a wild Mongolian species called the #Przewalski's horse.

Calligraphy and linework both in India ink, Chinese brushes. #Watercolour. On handmade rag paper by the lovely people at Atelier Retailles: https://www.atelierretailles.com

#ChineseNewYear #LunarNewYear #恭喜發財 #恭喜发财 #春節 #春节 #ChineseCalligraphy #painting #horse #YearOfTheHorse

A calligraphy piece, featuring a yellowish-brown Pzewalski's horse midair in a gallop to the left, india ink brushed linework and watercolour. On its torso, the character 馬 meaning horse (Cantonese: maa5, Mandarin: mǎ). In the first vertical line to the right, the words: 恭喜发财 (Cantonese: gung1 hei2 faat3 coi4; Mandarin: gōngxǐfācái) in semi-cursive calligraphy. To the right underneath the horse's head, the year 2026 written out in Chinese characters, 二千二十六年. In the bottom-left, the artist's stamp (Laogeodritt), dated 2026-02-16.

Fly, Caterpillar, Pear, and Centipede (1542–1600) by Joris Hoefnagel, Georg Bocskay.

Source: The Getty

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/33b9b5c6-924c-4c54-a6ec-9ade2724c14f

#pears #nature #calligraphy #butterflies #art #publicdomain

Celebrate the Year of the Horse with me! This year I (finally) try the calligraphy set I found at an antique fair. Learn how to use ink sticks and explore calligraphy brushes with me.

https://youtu.be/maZI5gDDpFM

#YearOfTheHorse #Calligraphy #SpringFestival #LunarNewYear #cny #cny2026 #art

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