Sunday, October 17, 2010

Still More..

  I'd participate in a calligraphy contest, but didn't satisfied with my works. Then, I make another one. I don't have the one I make in the contest, but I'll show you the one that I remake.



I would like to make improvement on it. Hm.. Meanwhile, I would like to show my works on last Raya I'dulfitri. See the card front page:


That's all. Got works this morning. See again.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Calligraphy Art

Each country or race or ethnic has their own art and aesthetic value. In writing skills, there are also various kind of art to write words and sentences. Chinese has their own calligraphy for their writing skills which then has influence Japanese. Westerners has their own calligraphy as well. Same goes to Arabic calligraphy.
I'm very interested in Arabic calligraphy which has a uniqueness that is different than the other calligraphy. Look at the pictures showing the word 'LOVE' written in several calligraphy style:




Those three are Japanese and Chinese calligraphy for word 'LOVE'. Look at Arabic style (basic) mean 'LOVE' below:


Comes what makes Arabic calligraphy amazing. For same word, it can be wrote like follows:




It can also be like this:






What do you think?