Week 3
Demonstration Art
Calligraphy, Sketches and Demonstration Painting
Calligraphy
The following is for those who want to practice their calligraphy. It is recommended that you first practice the strokes below. Make them by pressing the brush down at the beginning of the stroke, For the first two strokes, hold the brush briefly at the end. Press, stroke, hold. The next two, press, then let the brush go at the end without holding. The final stroke is press, stroke to the right and pause, stroke downward and hold, and let it go to the left. These strokes are useful for this week's kanji characters.
Here is the kanji for haiku.
Here is the kanji for haiga.
Sketch
Here is a relatively simple sketch of a common house fly for practice. Why a house fly? Check out my demonstration painting below.
Demonstration Painting
An important rule in haiga is to give credit to the poet who wrote the haiku. If that is you, put your name. In this demonstration painting, I put Issa's name. The name is followed by a ku (句), the same ku as in the haiku calligraphy above. The result is 一茶句. You should use whatever form of writing that you are comfortable with. Trying to copy Issa's poem in the style I wrote it may be challenging for some of you, so it is okay to write it in a different style. Even use English if you wish.
