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Return To Pen Article Archive   Search the Article Archives Calligraphy Main Tool By Cameran Hall Calligraphy is an art form thats been around for thousands of years. About two thousand years ago, when the letter forms reached a peak of perfection, the Romans cut their alphabet into stone. Their letters looked rather decorative, because of their special way of cutting, with some thick, and some thin lines. Then, when paper and animal skins were used, the early scribes wrote with hardened feathers, cut into a pen-shape. The split broad-edge nib gave the letters their characteristic thick and thins. We still use an adaptation of those early pens today and call them calligraphy-pens. You will need any kind of a pen that makes a good broad stroke in one direction and makes a thin stroke in the other direction.  See the illustration for an idea about the kind of marks a chisel point calligraphy pen can make. Pens having a flat tip can make a thick stroke in one direction and thin in another. Basically you have a few choices: felt tip pen, fountain pen or a steel point pen. These are three kinds of pens that can be manufactured to make this kind of broad stroke. You can easily make your own pens from feathers, too! Take some lined notebook paper and fill it with vertical and horizontal lines. When you first try this exercise, use two or three notebook paper lines in height for each vertical stroke. Make a similar length line for a series of horizontal strokes. To begin each stroke, set the pen on the paper, make a smooth straight stroke to the end of the line and finally lift the pen off the paper. Hold the pen at a constant angle pointed at one shoulder or straight at you while making each mark. Hold the pen as you would normally write: comfortably and not too tightly. Making individual strokes and patterns is a good way to become familiar with your new calligraphy pen(s). Always hold your pen nib at the same angle through a sentence. If you change it, the type of writing will change also, so the result will look messy. But first, get the RIGHT Calligraphy Pen! About the Author: The idea here is not to learn how to write with a brush, or what the words are, but just to look at them as an abstract art. Lookup Calligraphy at http://Calligraphy.smartreviewguide.com Cheap Personalized Pens

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