Even though it was the first time, we still had about 10 students come and participate.
Many of the participants were trying calligraphy for the first time, so we practiced breaking-in a new brush and talked about the history of calligraphy and ink.
First we made a very thin ink and thought about what image this colour brought to our minds, such as mist, condensation and smoke, and then we wrote a Chinese character to represent it. We then made it a little darker and wrote a different character and finally we did it with a very dark ink.
Once we had practiced writing these characters, we wrote them on a postcard and put them in a frame. Everyone wrote very beautiful letters.
We finished the lesson by learning the first basic stroke technique, the 's' shape, and practiced drawing horizontal lines.
Our next lesson will be on the 30th of June from 4pm, so I hope you can join us!
