Friday, October 28, 2016

Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (19) Trick or Treat!

Trick or Treat is the most important activity of Halloween. Children wear scary costumes to go neighborhood to ask for candy door by door in the evening. The most popular image used in costume is Ghost.

My Chinese calligraphy artwork "Trick or Treat!"



The characters involved in the artwork as follows.

The shell bone script for Moon is



The shell bone script of for Door is

The shell bone script for Ghost is


A big head man kneeled down.

The small seal script for ghost is


big head, soft legs and  hook- tail, a different ghost.

The art "Trick or Treat!"



Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (18) Live in bamboo forest - 竹林深处

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奋(奮)- I am just a little bird, wanting to fly, yet unable to fly high.

  The above is the   bronze script form   of the character “奋” (fèn). Strictly speaking, I’m not creating something new—I’m simply writing i...