qing yong
The scroll on the right shows the Chinese character yong, which means "forever," "eternity." The Japanese use the same character, though they pronounce it ei. Yong (ei) contains the pictogram of water; maybe you can see the brushstrokes here as rivulets, as flow. The character is made of hand-ground ink on paper, mounted on the scroll, and I have added my vermilion red seal.
The five characters on the left, qing, are ink on practice paper. The paper is thin, tough, and highly absorbent, carefully torn from a roll. Here you can see that the brushstrokes vary according to relative wetness and pressure of the brush (in the first (top-right) character, qing, and the fourth character, kuai, you can see grey ink). If you "scroll" down to my next blog entry, qing is explained a little more.
Calligraphy I practice almost every week alongside some students. We become still--centered--and moving with the brush when we practice, and sometimes the calligraphy is good.
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