Carving a Custom Design Chinese Name Chop in the Han Style Seal Script by Henry Li

This seal was special ordered by sumi artist Merri Leatherwood in Texas. Please visit www.blueheronar... for personalized name seal design and carving service by Henry Li.
An art-name (simplified Chinese: 号; traditional Chinese: 號; pinyin: hào; Japanese gō; Korean: ho; Vietnamese: hiệu) is a pseudonym, or penname used by an artist. Chinese artists adopted different art-names at different stages of their career, usually to mark significant changes in their life. That is why many Asian master painters or calligraphers have multiple art names.
For artist name seals, you may use either square or oval shaped stones, positive or negative carving styles, ancient or modern scripts depending on your personal artistic tastes. Deferent size of seal maybe used depending on the size of signature calligraphy and also on the size of painting or the style of painting. A small seal can be used on large size paintings but large size of seal may not fit in small size painting.
To translate English names into Chinese art name, we could use both first and last names, or only a first or a last. Here is an online tool where you input your Western name and get an authentic Chinese name (but it is recommended to get help from a native Chinese speaker to help you choose from various possibilities).
www.mandarintoo...
To order a personalized art name seal for yourself here are the procedure:
1)Go to www.BlueHeronAr... and place the order with stone, carving service and red ink(optional).
2)Send me your names or phrase to be translated and any other information.
3) I will communicate with you about the translation or creation of your Chinese art name and the make three preview designs in both yin and yang styles(2x3=6 images) for you to choose from.
4)After your approval of the preview design, I will actually carve the stone seal and the process will be recorded on video camera and posted on KZbin.
5) I will finish your seal within three working days in the USA and mailed it with a nice brocade silk box.
For more information please visit
www.blueheronar...
If you have a Chinese name already and want to learn how to sign your name in cursive style, here is a useful link
www.chinese-too...
Thank you!
Henry

[@AletheaMcKee]

Your work is simply amazing to me. Thank you for all the videos.

[@intergalactic12]

All your works are amazing, such skill and finesse. As an artist I find it pretty rewarding to watch you create all of these videos with so much passion.

[@blueheronarts]

@intergalactic12 Appreciate your comments!

[@Elsie6057]

This was so interesting to watch and, now, to know what you would do to make a seal for me, possibly. At first when thinking about this I could not really understand how you would put my Western name into Chinese and get a seal done. I can see possibilities. I will give some thought to how I might want it and possibly have you do one for me. Thank you so much.

[@blueheronarts]

@Elsie6057 I just added a link to an online tool where you input your Western name and get an authentic Chinese name (but it is recommended to get help from a native Chinese speaker to help you choose from all the possibilities. Looking forward to helping you with your name seal.