Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Traditional Japanese calligraphy ink, referred to as sumi ink, comes in a solid form. It takes at least four years of production ...

In today’s digital world, many of us don’t get to hold a pen for days. All our fingers do is tap screens and punch keyboards faster than lightning. While the focus on handwriting seems to have shifted ...

Most of us think of calligraphy as an elegant form of writing, grand for wedding invitations and formal announcements, but just writing. “Calligraphic Abstraction,” at the Seattle Asian Art Museum ...

FARGO — Visual artist, calligrapher and teacher Anne Kaese believes there’s an artist in everyone, no matter their skill, talent or experience. “Being an artist is what we all are. Some of us use ...

Ink artist Wang Dongling's "chaos calligraphy" is on display. Photos provided to China Daily Ink artist Wang Dongling, 71, is holding two exhibitions in Beijing to show his achievements in traditional ...

TORONTO – When Rajiv Surendra meets new people in his travels who want to stay in touch, he has a key stipulation when it comes to exchanging messages: put them in the post. “They’ll write to me and ...

Once, anyone with a halfway reasonable education could write a fair hand. The first blow was the typewriter. Then schools stopped teaching traditional cursive, because it was too hard. And now ...