Getting to Know Your Materials
We understand it might be overwhelming if you try Googling brush calligraphy materials. We would love to just say that we don’t need fanciful materials to do calligraphy. We hope to deliver the idea that art can be in your every day life.
brush pen
Selecting a suitable brush pen is the most important step to the start of your brush pen calligraphy journey.
We have selected the Pentel Fude Touch Sign Pen for our beginners as it has a single flexible tip (as opposed to brush tip made up of fine hairs), making it easier to achieve distinct thick and thin stroke. The size of the brush tip is also just right to produce moderate-size stroke.
Before you start using the brush pen, take a piece of scrap paper and test out the action of the brush pen. When you press the brush tip down, it flexes (or bends) to produce a thick stroke. When you gently just glide the pen tip across the paper, only the tip will be touching the paper, thus producing a thin stroke.
Keep this brush pen action in mind, and this is how we are able to produce the characteristic think and thin strokes in brush calligraphy.
Magic paper?
We can’t deny the satisfaction of writing on good quality paper when the strokes appear sharp and crisp. However, the amazing thing about brush calligraphy is that most brush pens (not only the Pentel Fude Touch Sign Pen) work perfectly fine on the most basic print paper.
So while you are still exploring this new craft, we want you to be able to practice without having to buy anything fancy. It is never too late to explore different writing surface when you are ready to progress to perfecting the craft :)