Saturday, August 28, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Blue Fractal Calligraphy Wallpaper
Wallpaper with 1024x768px size, decorated with blue fractal illusion color.
Note: Click the images to view the actual size , right click and choose 'Save Image As' to download.
Calligraphy Sources for Wallpaper
These Calligraphies are not wallpaper, just sources. You can use it for your art calligraphy wallpaper. Use Photoshop or other graphic editor, choose a good background as your calligraphy wallpaper.
Windows Calligraphy Wallpaper 1024 x 768
This Calligraphy Wallpaper is combination between Windows Xp wallpaper and Arabic art calligraphy. I use blue background and match it with calligraphy color. It’s Nice to make our eyes fresh after see it. Click to use this wallpaper on your desktop.
Avalon Leaf XP Wallpaper 1027 X 768
Wallpaper XP with avalon leaf background. Suitable for natural desktop wallpaper. Click to download freely.
My Fishpond Calligraphy Wallpaper
Visit to my Village in my Holiday is very interesting. There are small pond in front of my sweet home. I just take the picture, hmm … than i got a beautiful small pond picture complete with little fish. Combining with calligraphy make it very nice wallpaper, just download it if you would like to use it on your desktop. Happy nice day …!
Smooth Blue Arabic Calligraphy wallpaper 1024 x 768
Arabic Calligraphy wallpaper 1024 x 768 decorated with smooth blue color.
Biru Daun Free Abstract Wallpaper Calligraphy
work has ended today, and blue wallpaper appeared on my desktop, i like it. Use its wallpaper with calligraphy freely!
Black Corona Calligraphy Wallpaper
My new finishing art today, i name it black corona calligraphy wallpaper, i don’t know exactly the meaning, but i love it :) You can use it freely on your desktop, and wait for another wallpaper i’ll bring to you soon :) feel free to request if you would like to use it on other desktop dimension.
1280 X 800 Beautiful Old Wallpaper
Beautiful wallpaper with old Arabian picture, it makes your desktop look like old graphic with modern design wallpaper. feel free to download it.
Biru Daun 1280 x 800 Free Abstract Wallpaper Calligraphy
It’s 1280 x 800 style of biru daun beautiful wallpaper. Your laptop now can use it as desktop wallpaper. feel free to download this beautiful wallpaper.
Out of Africa – Beach Calligraphy
Out of South Africa comes the truly unique work of Andrew van der Merwe – beach calligraphy, he calls it. Andrew writes about his work: “If a calligrapher is someone who loves writing, then I have been a calligrapher since my very first writing lessons. Or is it just a love for women? I dunno but I did think the teacher who gave me all those gold stars was beautiful! Either way, it wasn’t women who had me breaking my academic trajectory in philosophy and politics, but calligraphy. To help pay my way, I started freelancing while I was at university and went full time soon after that.
I also love the surf and the beach and have always enjoyed scratching words in the sand with sticks. Sticks make more of a mess than a mark, so this led to the special shaping of the sticks and to the development of various instruments to achieve better results and ultimately to ways of cutting the sand out to leave a neat V. The V was a great discovery, not only for its neatness and shadow, but because it sets up a lovely contrast between the typical, permanent V of stone carving and the wonderful, temporal quality of the beach calligraphy.
I also developed ways of avoiding footprints, and this is often what impresses people most, but for me the real challenge remains getting the letter forms good. Any calligrapher will understand that!”
The Magic of Vitaly Shapovalov
One challenge all calligraphers face at some point is how to successfully integrate text and image. Calligraphy tends to be such a strong visual force that combining it with images often leads to dissonance between the image and text. I remember once picking up a book about calligraphy and flowers, only to marvel at how calligraphy and flowers can clash!
But, along comes Vitaly Shapovalov — a Russian calligrapher, illustrator and graphic designer who makes it look oh-so-natural. His calligraphic style is fluid and he adjusts the contours to reflect to the content of his illustration. He has been posting his work on facebook, and admiring calligraphers from around the world are taking note. Just when we think we've seen it all, he posts another album of his work and we are blown away again! Enough from me, here is some of his work (double-click on image to see larger):
Vitaly is actively involved in Russia’s International Exhibition of Calligraphy, and more of his work can be seen here.
1280 x 1024 Blue Spirit Calligraphy Wallpaper
blue spirit. calligraphy wallpaperBlue Spirit Calligraphy wallpaper, dimension: 1280 x 1024 High Resolution. This Wallpaper is suitable for almost square desktop, on any operating system, windows, mac, linux, ubuntu.
Vista Wallpaper – Blue Earth Calligraphy
This Blue Earth calligraphy wallpaper is suitable for XP wallpaper or Vista desktop wallpaper. But you can use it on other operating system such as ubuntu, mac, etc. Just determine that your desktop dimension is 1024 x 768 and it will fit. If you want other dimension, just comment on this blog and i will work for you freely.
Green World Calligraphy 1024 x 768
green world calligraphy wallpaperWorld always green, keep clean and green the world. Use this calligraphy wallpaper to make your desktop look green.
Rainbow Calligraphy Wallpaper 1024 x 768
Rainbow calligraphy wallpaperCoincides with the rainy season in My country, I dedicate this wallpaper to commemorate the appearance of a rainbow on the horizon some time ago. Using mirrored Khat Diwani Jaly this calligraphy look beautiful over the rainbow. I named it "Rainbow Calligraphy Wallpaper."
XP Wallpaper Red Mosque and Calligraphy
This XP Wallpaper Calligraphy actually not only for XP Operating System, but you can also put it on any desktop, like vista, linux, ubuntu, etc. You just ensure that your desktop dimension is 1280 X 800. Use it on your desktop wallpaper freely, and if you want to take it on other dimension, you can request by comenting, and i hope can make for you. I use Madinatul Munawaroh Mosque as the background, and wrap it with red glow shine.
Morning Dervish
On a good morning — those mornings when I don’t stumble directly to the kitchen for coffee — I start the day with the five Tibetan Rites. The first rite is whirling, like a dervish. And so Morning Dervish came to be.
This dervish has now whirled south to be a part of an exhibition at the Naples Museum of Art, entitled The Saint John’s Bible and the Art of the Book. Needless to say, it
The International Exhibition of Calligraphy, Russia
Since starting this blog, I have become more aware of global reach of calligraphy. This month, Moscow is hosting The II International Exhibition of Calligraphy. Look at this list of participants! There’s hours of online exploration here! Or choose to view the gallery. An incredible range of work showing the international appeal of the letter arts.
New work-in-progress
Sneak preview of some of new work — quite experimental at this point. I’ve recently taken an acrylic painting course with Timothy Hoey (Tim Rocks!) and he helped me start moving in a new direction with
Calligraphic Cross-Training
There’s much talk in the calligraphic world about freedom vs. discipline — and mini-battles sometimes take place between those who advocate disciplined, legible work and those who prefer expressive, abstract and/or illegible work.
It seems to me that calligraphers — more than most artists — are like athletes. Our work depends on years of disciplined practice, but comes down to “a performance”, a given moment when tool touches down on paper, vellum or canvas. A crucial moment because ink is indelible. Too loose and we make a mess. Too tight and the performance appears strained.
So, like athletes, are we not wise to cross-train? Like a runner who lifts weights, we can retain freshness, balance and longevity if we vary our workouts. Sometimes, a disciplined workshop where we focus on form, later a crazy experiment which may or may not work. Always, at the end, a bit of analysis of what worked and what didn’t.
Yes, there is the risk of the inexperienced calligrapher who might “injure” themselves by flourishing long before they have the skill to pull it off, just as a runner might strain a muscle. It will set back their career, leave them floundering for a bit. But it is also part of the process of learning to find the sweet spot where spontaneity meets control and the results soar.
Natural Calligraphy
At first glance, calligraphy seems to be so focussed on the man-made. Drawn or pen-made letters, philosophical quotes, rulers and grids. We study the history of letters, which intertwines with the history of today’s dominant cultures.
Because I draw so much inspiration from nature, I’ve often wondered why I don’t paint watercolour landscapes or florals or pet portraits? Why am I so strongly drawn to letterforms? Why, when I doodle, is it inevitably a letter? Something so removed from the natural world.
Or is it? Recently, I've been paying attention to the many shapes in nature that mimic calligraphy. Or rather the many shapes in nature that contemporary calligraphy mimics! Sit back and look at the photos at right — the calligraphic shapes are obvious, but take it one step further and identify a contemporary calligrapher who uses these forms in their work — the relationship is surprisingly easy to see!
Perhaps what we seek in our calligraphy is the replication of nature’s casual grace, simplicity of pattern or riot of texture. For all the years of human design history, nature still leads us forward with an ever-changing environment filled with
Welcome to Calligraffia
A team of our friends down under are launching a new calligraphy blog, Calligraffia which will feature “calligraphy news, views, reviews, interviews & how-tos” from around the globe.
Their launch today, February 13th, coincides with the first anniversary of the Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples, and the first posting is an interview (by blogger, Rhonda Ayliffe) with calligrapher, Gemma Black, who scribed the motion for the Australian Parliament — an interesting read.
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