Chinese Calligraphy Books

A comprehensive guide that will take your brush painting to new levels of achievement and excellence.

By following Qu Lei Lei's clear techniques and detailed step-by-step instructions you can replicate the scripts that have dominated the history of Chinese calligraphy and bring meaning and style to your writing.

Discover the five primary scripts used through Chinese history - from the earliest pictographic characters, through the beautiful Zhuan, Han and Standard scripts, to the modern Running script

Use the detailed, fully illustrated techniques to develop your skills.

Practice the scripts with the integrated tracing paper, learning to use the brush like a traditional calligrapher.

Over 15 projects let you put your skills into practice, creating beautiful artworks and present

Hardback, 208 x 276 mm; 144 pages

Qu Lei Lei, one of the world's top calligraphers, reveals in this step-by-step beginner's guide how to create sacred Chinese characters including Good Luck, Long Life, Music and Joy, and Love. A complete photographic guide shows you how to create 15 projects, from greetings cards and precious talismans for the home, through to beautiful stone carvings, and a T-shirt that literally spells energy. Lei Lei begins with a guide to choosing the best materials and how to use them, together with a full explanation of how to create Chinese characters, so even the beginner can master authentic techniques. Lei Lei offers guidance and variations on choosing the best of calligraphy signs, motifs, sayings and poems so you can develop your own truly individual style for every occasion and sentiment.

Hardback, 215 x 280 mm; 128 pages