Calligraphy-skills.com Website Review

The creative discipline of calligraphy is a great source of pleasure and calm — and can be used to give a lot of pleasure to others, too. The basic tools and materials are inexpensive. And it’s fun. used in many areas of art and graphics, from greetings card design to tattoo artistry. But you don't have to be a pro to express your creative self and have a pleasant effect on the viewer or recipient of your efforts. I've been earning (good, if sporadic) pocket money from commissioned calligraphic pieces in between 'the real job' for around twenty years now! However, as one wildly creative and influential human being has said: The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something. While teaching calligraphy, I've realised that lots of people are interested in the subject but unsure how to learn. I try to help by providing some practical guides to writing techniques, lettering skills, page design and decoration skills (including gilding), and And this site is also something of a catch-all for my own, related interests in alphabets, pages, writing, and books in general. You and there’s great pleasure in the calmness and perseverance that come from improving your skills Maybe the best reason for pursuing calligraphy is you just don't know where it may take you. Here's Steve Jobs, on dropping out of college: It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one