Near retirement age, if you want to learn calligraphy, do you have any good suggestions from the basics?

Let's talk about my experience in learning calligraphy. I have retired for more than twenty years. From the day I retired, I picked up a brush and began my course of learning calligraphy. Now I have made small achievements. I can create calligraphy works, join the headline calligraphy circle, exchange calligraphy experiences with book lovers, and sometimes write articles about calligraphy experiences. I am busy every day.

Let's talk about my experience in learning calligraphy:

1. Start with the post.

First of all, buy some regular script copybooks, including those from Europe, Yan, Liu and others. Choose copybooks according to your hobbies, and choose whatever style you like. Then prepare the post. First of all, we must solve the problem of calligraphy, because copybooks are written by the ancients, and no one can see how he wrote them. So we must understand how the ancients wrote it. The only way is to learn from the calligraphy teacher. If there are no teachers or calligraphy classes nearby, the best shortcut is to sit at home and study online, because all the online calligraphy teachers are experts. When studying, we should get rid of the habit of writing in the past, and start from 0 to see how the masters write, so that they know what they are doing. At the same time, it is necessary to practice the word structure word by word, which needs to be understood in the post. We should learn from calligraphy theory and use theory to guide practice. This time is very long, it will take a year or several years. Perseverance, patience and perseverance can lead to good results.

2. Take the best out of a hundred.

When you learn a copybook to a certain extent, you can read more copybooks, because with the foundation, it is not difficult. At the same time, you can also learn to brush and cursive, and practice together to improve your writing ability. It is not difficult to enter the headline calligraphy circle, polish your own calligraphy, listen to book reviews from book lovers, constantly enrich and improve, form your own calligraphy style and become a veritable calligrapher.