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Copybooks

 PenmanPrice
Regular script
Huangfu Dan
Preface to sacred sutra
The Ministers
Temple of Nun Ma
Mystery Pagoda
Wanan Bridge
Cuan Longyan Stele
Statue of Buddha by Yang Dayan
Zhang Xuan stele
Ouyang Xun
Chu Suiliang
Zhang Xu
Yan Zhenqing
Liu Gongquan
Cai Xiang
 
 
 
$ 54.05
$ 31.00
$ 34.50
$ 24.20
$ 22.00
$ 45.00
$ 44.70
$ 28.20
$ 23.50
Clerical script
Yi Ying Stele
Ritual Implements
Cao Quan Stele
  $ 30.00
$ 26.25
$ 34.00
Cursive script
Seventeenth
Thousand Characters
Wang Xizhi
Zhi Yong
$ 24.00
$ 31.00
Semi-cursive script
Orchid Pavilion
Two Poems
Poems on Shao River
Wang Xizhi
Huang Tingjian
Mi Fu
$ 29.00
$ 26.00
$ 28.00
Seal script
Plate of San   $ 28.00

The training of brush writing, like any other form of art, starts from the discipline - the copybooks. Regular script used to be the first style to begin with; however, clerical script, from which regular script evolved, has been reasoned for the order since the 19th century. Cursive script is generally lined behind.

There are two methods to make copies - tracing the characters through a sized rice paper or comparing to the model while write by imitation. While the former helps in stroke placement, the latter emphasizes on brushwork. The key to success is finding stroke pattern in a particular model. It may take a beginner more than two year to have a good grip of a certain style. “A hundred days effort will not yield result,” as an ancient saying goes.

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