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Flourish a pen, pencil, or brush and--using the striking examples as a guide--enhance scrapbook pages, greeting cards, photos, framed items, and gift tags and bags. Worksheets are provided, and there's advice on tools and materials, brush lettering, and shortcuts to spacing and linework

Presents full-color illustrated instructions for creating fifteen Japanese calligraphy projects using paper, ceramics, fabric, and stones

Traces the history of Western calligraphy, demonstrates various scripts, and shows manuscripts and inscriptions from the past.

A step-by-step guide through a detailed calligraphy course, starting with the history of writing techniques, calligraphic tools and materials

Presenting advice and instruction on a more basic level than found in most other calligraphy books, this resource takes absolute beginners by the hand and walks them through 15 key alphabets. The book's final section shows how to add color and sparkle to a text by employing illumination techniques that are quick to learn and fun to do.

Calligraphy enthusiasts can expand their horizons and augment their repertory of scripts with this detailed excursion into the method of creating beautifully inscribed Chinese characters. Organized into sections, this book presents Chinese characters that embrace a diversity of themes, including peace, happiness, love, long life, and many others. Each of 300 characters is presented with an explanation of its meaning and a note on how it is pronounced....

Long ago the people of China lived, worked, and fought under the protection of guardian spirits that took on the appearance of animals, but the children grew tired of war and created a new spirit to protect all the people and bring peace.