Many scholars view smaller pieces with small characters as more definitive of the sophistication of the calligrapher. Letters, poems, essays and epitaphs can depict the writer’s character and his life ...

Timothy O’Neill is an expert calligrapher whose ... students spending their days tracing with a pointed metal stylus small letters carved on wooden blocks. In this way, they learned how to ...

Of all our letter forms, the O is arguably the simplest. One stroke moving in one direction. A circle, perhaps an oval, grounded and elemental. A pair of rounded lips, an eye, an egg, the earth.