Today we’d like to introduce you to Avinash Kharat.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Avinash. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
It started in my college days when I was going to the gym; one of the gym goers did calligraphy when he took a break during his workout. I asked him about this and then he started teaching me the basic things about calligraphy. Then for my Master’s degree, I moved on to another city where I met someone who believed in my lettering style. She is the one who inspired me every day to make something new and to practice calligraphy; she is none other than my sweet, lovely, wife Teja. Now it’s been 10 years and I am practicing calligraphy every day. Now I am doing calligraphy in copperplate style, Gothic, Fracture and some of my own design styles/scripts.
I am working on different projects all the time; in 2013 I developed the certificates for an international conference. These days I’m working on calligram art which is nothing but developing shapes from calligraphy. Recently I have featured in @calligraphymasters on Instagram for one of my calligrams.
Recently I have developed guideline sheets for ruling the line for copperplate calligraphy which makes it an easy and time saving process to make guidelines for practice. The good thing is that everyone wants it and many of my calligraphy friends are using them and in very short time it’s getting popular among other calligraphers. I have done many experiments on it before outing the product to the market. calligraphy is part of our daily life; believe it or not but we are surrounded by it. The number plates of our Car, the advertising banners in attractive lettering, the names of house in different fonts, The brand logos of many companies and our own handwriting is nothing but calligraphy. So we are all surrounded by calligraphy every day from we born. Calligraphy is my daily routine with new things that developed every day in this field. Anyone can do it, that’s the beauty of this art.
Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
Most of my beginning approach to calligraphy I thinking it is simply just writing with a dip pen and ink but soon I get disappointed when I find out that it’s not as easy as it looks to control the nib and how the ink flows. Initiate with the basics and practice daily I build my confidence with the tools and have a much better result from it. The very basic thing is selecting the type of calligraphy you want to do and find some examples of it done by masters or other calligraphers that’s exactly what I do. It gives me an idea about shape, size and height of lettering that I want to produce. Draw the basic guidelines required for it. I know it’s time consuming but for that I developed my own guidelines sheets. So anyone can develop it with script information. And the last thing is to practice every day- that help me a lot.
Alright – so let’s talk business. Tell us about @avinash_calligraphy – what should we know?|
Well its calligraphy service industry where you can find so many option to do job. In binning I develop names on envelopes for 20 Bucks and after that I write some certificate for international events and conferences.
By developing it slowly with names and small assignments now I do every day’s commission work for my clients around the world. My assignments includes wedding calligraphy, logo design, Monogram making, Calligram making and other services related to calligraphy. I made guideline sheets for calligraphy line guideline rulings so that its time saving for all calligraphy artist now I am selling this product in USA, Asia and UK, the response is good from all calligraphers.
Any shoutouts? Who else deserves credit in this story – who has played a meaningful role?
Well I have followed books and the master penmanship from the USA and the UK. Some of my friends from Singapore send me notes and e-books related to Calligraphy. My greatest inspiration is my Guru Prof. S.V.Pendse sir from J.J.School of Arts in Mumbai. He first introduced me to the copperplate script calligraphy. Years of hard work and daily practice make my way easy to do such art form.
Pricing:
- Guideline sheets for $25 USD plus shipping cost
Contact Info:
- Website: https://avinashrkharat07.wixsite.com/avinash-calligraphy
- Phone: +91-9552522019
- Email: [email protected]
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avinash_calligraphy/
Image Credit:
Avinash Kharat
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