How To Use A Calligraphy Brush

How to use a calligraphy brush? Or better still, how to use a brush for calligraphy? Once we get our brushes, and they come in different sizes, my preference for brushes are the Vincent Codemund brushes because they are fantastic or the Vincent Codemund 2x2 brushes which have great pointed pen work. These are the different shapes of the brushes. Brushes can come either as separate filaments so they separate out and come to a fine point or which they can come as a spongy filament which as you apply pressure and presses down on the surface, you can treat a brush like a pen and do some delicate copper print script or you can treat them like a brush and do some brush writing.

If you have one of these brushes, which is an empty water colour brush, you can action it light colour on the outside of the lettering and make it bleed just a little bit and shadow or which you could write in the water and then very carefully drop black ink there. That's using a pointer brush. I am going to use one of these brushes and this is very similar to what sign I use, called rigger which would lick the brush.

To get rid of the lacquer, we fold it together and I am going to load the brush and I am using some Vincent Newton orange. This is actually Chinese orange, unfortunately, this is continued by the three used mix up of chromium orange and some of the other Vincent Newton colours. And I need to treat the brush very thin and a pipe crusher and come out and go higher rolling the brush and slightly curl there.

I am treating it like complete nib rather than treating it like a brush. Also, this is the kind of brush that you use if you want to do some beautiful calligraphic versions, so that's using a brush, a pointer brush. The next thing we can look at the thing is using a brush, a squash brush to do some of really traditional type of letter used by the Romans and I am holding the brush more operate and also it's in a very different aspect and then twisting the brush inside of my hand.

So, this is a letter from a script called rustics. You can hold the brush like a pen and rotate through the wrist, and if you are going to hold it like a pen, you might have loved using a pen because brushes also come in much smaller sizes. So let's get rid of the lacquer and here is where we can actually treat the brush like a pen.

So let's do some formal writing. The amazing thing about a brush is they allow shapes which we simply cannot get out of a pen, really delicate sizes and it goes back over itself which you could never do with a pen, and that's how you do brush. .