With 'Enrich Your Calligraphy', leading calligrapher, Diana Hardy Wilson, presents a stimulating and encouraging guide for all fellow artists and students who wish to realise their full potential. She shows how a fuller understanding of the design process, a greater awareness of the world around us and an unrestricted use of personal experience can help to enrich, inspire and nurture a calligrapher's work.
Calligraphy is intrinsically linked with typography and graphic design, so effective calligraphy demands the understanding and application of a wide range of design considerations, as demonstrated by this book's extraordinary collection of illustrations, showing examples of successful calligraphy by artists from around the world. The techniques and procedures discussed in 'Enrich Your Calligraphy' are often highly practical to illuminate and add to the pleasure derived from practising calligraphy.
- Detailed discussion of problem solving, with suggestions for developing a personal methodology
- Dealing with research, data and analysis
- Practical perspectives of design: from choice of paper to decorative devices
- Production considerations: from making guidelines to preparing camera-ready artwork
- Understanding the creative process: first insight, preparation, incubation, illumination, evaluation
- Nurturing your creativity and visual awareness
- Exploring spatial relationships
- Creating ideas books and building a personal reference collection
