Modern calligraphy is relaxing, says expert

Gurvinder Singh

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Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, March 24

While the old calligraphy techniques involved the use of dip pens and a set of rules, with the emergence of brush pens, there is a new fillip to calligraphy and it is becoming a rage on the social media.

City-based Kamaljeet Kaur, who has been known for her ‘Gurmukhi’ calligraphy, held a modern calligraphy workshop based on brush pens at a cafe on Saturday.

She said there was an overwhelming interest in brush pen calligraphy. She, along with her daughter Sehaj, shared tips and taught techniques for modern calligraphy art.

Market today is flooded with brush pens, but people do not know how to use them for calligraphy. So that is why I have organised this workshop to teach people how to do so, she said.

“I am promoting this as a healthy hobby to keep people away from digital obsession. With modern calligraphy people can create their own personalised messages and can send to their friends and loved ones. This is a new way to reconnect with the old art of calligraphy,” Kaur said.

While speaking about the beginners she said newcomers could start with inexpensive brush pens to begin with for practice, but brush pens for serious work must be chosen carefully. She said even the choice of paper is important for calligraphy. Giving information about the different kinds of strokes, she said there were some basic strokes that participants needed to learn to be able to form the entire gamut of the Latin alphabet. In simply cursive writing, one does not need to pick up the point for long, but when it comes to calligraphy, and hand lettering, the variation of the thickness, and thinness can be applied with varying pressure and can be learnt with practice, she said.