{"id":24,"date":"2011-11-15T18:15:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T23:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scallender.info\/?p=24"},"modified":"2012-03-22T21:01:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T01:01:14","slug":"using-practice-sheets-beginning-calligraphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scallender.info\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Using Practice Sheets (Beginning Calligraphy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After learning how to hold the bush, you must then master the brush!\u00a0 To master the brush I was taught to trace or fill in (or write over) the Chinese Characters in the <strong>practice book<\/strong>.\u00a0 The practice books are inexpensive and made of very thin rice paper.\u00a0 I was taught to try to fill as many books as possible watching your progress.\u00a0 The teacher would look over your work and show you what to look for!\u00a0 Normally the teacher has the class watch him as he demonstrates the technique. Below I will give you two samples of practice book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/practice-sheet-3a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"27\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/?attachment_id=27\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/practice-sheet-3a.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2251,2173\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;MP620 series&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1321377739&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"practice sheet-3a\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/practice-sheet-3a-1024x988.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27\" title=\"practice sheet-3a\" src=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/practice-sheet-3a-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/practice-sheet-3a-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/practice-sheet-3a-1024x988.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/practice-sheet-3a-310x300.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/practice-sheet-1a1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"26\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/?attachment_id=26\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/practice-sheet-1a1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3300,2550\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;MP620 series&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1321376045&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"practice sheet-1a\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/practice-sheet-1a1-1024x791.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26\" title=\"practice sheet-1a\" src=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/practice-sheet-1a1-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/practice-sheet-1a1-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/practice-sheet-1a1-1024x791.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/practice-sheet-1a1-388x300.jpg 388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is from the practice book (red solid characters) that\u00a0 I\u00a0 first used.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Young preferred the red solid character practice book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After learning how to hold the bush, you must then master the brush!\u00a0 To master the brush I was taught to trace or fill in (or write over) the Chinese Characters in the practice book.\u00a0 The practice books are inexpensive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/?p=24\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,8,15,14],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginner","tag-chinese-calligraphy","tag-chinese-characters","tag-practice-sheets","tag-worksheets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - 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