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Arts and Audiovisual Media Board / Re: The Forum's Art Museum

« Last post by Róisín on March 10, 2024, 09:36:09 AM »

I can see it now after refreshing the page. Beautiful. My youngest son also has a calligraphy set, which one of the ancient rels, who was a linguist and diplomat, brought back for him from Asia along with a huge stack of Chinese and Japanese comic books which my boys used to begin teaching themselves to read Mandarin and several other languages. The Asian languages have always been hard for me, but my sons and my youngest daughter took to them easily. I do better with the European and Aboriginal languages. The most I can manage in Chinese and Japanese is plant names, and only a little more than that in Sanscrit. But calligraphy is beautiful.

Writing Board / Re: The Forum's Scriptorium

« Last post by Róisín on March 10, 2024, 08:53:11 AM »

I was trying to put up one of my short stories, but in the process of trying to copy and paste it I seem to have deleted it completely. Damn and blast! So anyway, have a poem.

COLOUR

Colour's the child of light
Born with the day.
In the first shades of night
She slips away.

First go the subtle tints
Fading to grey:
Sun-speckles, water-glints,
Mica in clay.

Next as the shadows come
Purple, red, blue,
Pomegranate and plum,
Lose their rich hue.

A twilight dragonfly
May catch a gleam,
Glinting from wing or eye
Swift as a dream.

Rich-shaded iris, rose
Fading to dun
Signal the long day's close.
Night has begun.

Now with the last light gone
Beyond recall
White blossoms spill their scent
As the dews fall.

The evening primrose flowers
Gold lamps held high,
Call, through the starlit hours
Moths from their sky.

Arts and Audiovisual Media Board / Re: The Forum's Art Museum

« Last post by Keep Looking on March 10, 2024, 08:27:47 AM »

Moredhel, that's some lovely calligraphy! (For Róisín - the image file seems quite large, it takes a while to load)

My mother owns a Chinese calligraphy set and when we were kids she got it out a few times and taught us how to write with the brushes. Unfortunately my language skills are atrocious and my Chinese name is the only set of characters I actually remember how to write, but I remember being taught how to hold the brushes correctly and rubbing the ink stick onto the damp stone to get the ink for our brushes. Maybe I should get it out again and try some more calligraphy myself sometime (or even ink painting with the calligraphy brushes - my mother has her grandmother's autograph book from the 1930s and there's an amazing painting in there that a friend of hers did).