• encourages creativity even for beginners
• promotes a relaxed approach to this
  centuries-old art

Tomoko Kodama’s work is "an evocative presentation of the philosophical and aesthetic underpinning of sumi-e or brush painting. This book made this traditional Japanese art form accessible to Canadians”

Canada Council 1991

These exercise manuals can accompany the above book. The manuals introduce a variety of scripts (regular to cursive style), over 100 characters in each, along with a sampling of student works.

Both texts Bilingual (English and French)

VOLUME I
Calligraphy plus Imagination
ISBN 978-0-9693974-6-5

Calligraphy for everyone interested in painting, especially for artists, teachers and students.

“an amazing lightness of being...
a new vitality can infuse your drawing, watercolour, pottery design …”

VOLUME II
Beginner to Master
Du debutant au maitre
ISBN 0-9693974-3-7

…. Feel the brush “tip” by body
... hand and wrist must not manipulate the brush”

This manual is designed for all ages regardless of experience, especially for teachers and students of the Chinese and Japanese languages.

For Haiku and Tanka lovers who want to write with brush, Kodama emphasizes writing with rhythm, making it more enjoyable and create an attractive handwriting by brush, pen and pencil.
[please see Vol II pg 43]