January Ninteenth

Here is my latest attempt. In my estimation there are three components to good calligraphy. The first is the actual strokes themselves. The beginning and ending of each stroke and the variation of the thickness of the line. The angle of the curves etc. The second is the structure or composition of the actual character, what my calligraphy teacher called 结构 "jiegou." Beautiful, well written characters are balanced from top to bottom, left and right and in their use of negative space. The third element is the flow of the strokes within each character and the flow of the characters within the piece. Well written pieces flow from one stroke to the next and one character to the next. This is a lot easier to see in xingshu or caoshu but it can be seen in kaishu as well.