Writing "Happiness" in 5 Styles

Hello and welcome to our free course of calligraphy!

This course contains all my best wishes to you in the year 2021-2022-2023!

The years 2020-2022 perhaps has been difficult to a lot of us, but in the years to come, I would like to wish you all great happiness and teach you to write the character "happiness" in 5 major calligraphy styles, so that you can write your own happiness, and you can receive and spread the love to everybody around you. The character "happiness" is "福" in Chinese, it is pronounced "Fu". Let's start our new year together and strong!

In this course, we will first discuss the composition of the character "happiness", and after practicing them in 5 main scripts, seal script, official script, regular script, cursive script and semi-cursive script. These five scripts are written mainly in their order of appearance in history. We will first practice them, and then write them down on nice presentation papers.

Material: A medium-large sized brush, some rice paper, and ink. It is best if you have rice paper (Xuan raw rice paper, 宣纸) because it allows in ink in a nice way. The ink can be either liquid or ink blocks. If you do not even own a brush, feel free to be creative anyway :)

All the best wishes,

Fiona