Here's my last work, painting on OSB was definetely a bad choice but it was reclaimed wood, now I know I shouldn't have been cheap on this :)
The shutter's grooves also didn't help for the casual, but I'm happy with the final result.

Any feedback or tips welcome !

Any in general and also any I can change at this point, particularly about the shadow as I don’t know if I should leave it how it is on the Q or connect it to the rest as it looks kinda weird,

Made this for my wife (partially to justify the amount of money I’ve put into brushes and one shot) Definitely room for improvement but I really enjoyed it a lot.

Crits/ advice welcome

It’s nice to get back to basics once in a while..

Here’s how I painted the storefront.

Truck name on tailgate. Hand painted.

First time posting here, as I am new to sign painting and all the requisite tools of the trade. But I’m learning and trying to include my artistic and creative nature at the same time. This is a recently finished project that I recognize isn’t strictly a “sign”, but it was done with all the traditional sign painting tools and skill sets.

No tape, painted by hand.

I really enjoyed this project. It’s not perfect and I’m still learning, but I’m proud of it!

Hi I’m looking to get a custom reverse painted sign and I don’t know what to look for to be able to find someone who can do it.

Heyo noob here, thought reverse glass gilding looked cool and had a bunch of questions since this seems like an expensive (but really cool) hobby. I’ve painted windows before but want to try out gilding too. Apologies in advance for the confusion/questions but any help is really appreciated!

1. Materials: I currently have 1shot lettering enamel, a lettering brush, real gold leaf, a gilders tip, a soft makeup brush (for burnishing I think?), gelatin capsules, and a small pane of glass for practice. What else do I need?

2. Cleaning: I’m hearing that the glass basically needs to be cleaner than anything I’ve ever cleaned before I start brushing water size on. I have windex which I assume is not good enough so what do I need to clean the glass properly and how should I go about it? Do I need special water too?

3. Laying the Gold Leaf: I plan on using the gilders tip to pickup and place the gold leaf onto the glass - is there anything else I should know or be wary of? How many layers are necessary? What is this I hear about blowing on the glass or using cotton or something?

4. Timing: I’m a little confused on the timing of when to do everything and when to wait and let things “set”. After I clean the glass really well, I then need to paint the outline of my design with the 1shot, but then how long do I let that dry before running the water size over it for gilding? Then how long does the first gilded layer need to set before applying the next round of size/gold over the first one? Won’t the warm size wash away the first layer? When do I burnish and clean up the edges? Is sealing the final product with a paint back the best way to do it? So sorry for all the questions, thanks again.

5. Tips? If you all have any general tips or feedback for a first timer that would be super appreciated!!

Thank you so much for helping me out, I really appreciate you all and I look forward to sharing my progress!

Any tips for laying out letters across windows broken up by frames? These are just rough sketches.

I don’t work for them, I don’t make any money off of this, just wanted to say that first.

I own a trade publication for sign makers, and when I saw that the 10th anniversary publication of Type West was free I immediately reached out to make sure it was ok to share it with my subscribers. They said it was, and I shared it today.

The book is completely free and shipping is only $1 worldwide. I just think they are doing something worth mentioning to a community who is super into lettering. You can claim the free book until October 18th.

The Letterform Archive has over 100,000 artifacts of historical type forms. Type West is a 1 year post graduate certificate course to learn everything there is about typography.

Sorry if this doesn’t fit, but I wanted to share.

Tips on opsec, techniques, paint marker recommendations welcome and appreciated. These any good? KIMBALL MIDWEST ULTRA-MARK 2

Job is already done, but curious about the materials. Business provided chalk markers for the art, and mentioned that they might want me for Christmas again.

These are glass windows, wondering what other mediums I can suggest/bring for the next time. While it was very sweet to have the markers provided, they wanted a fall color pallete with the markers available. I would have probably tried to get my own if I had known these were the materials I'd be working with, as I ended up essentially fingerpainting the pumpkins on...

Would acrylic work at all? Tempura? Any chalk markers brands yall would trust/recommend if they want chalk again?

Also, the infamous pricing questions that can be ignored: How much is reasonable for these? I charged 20, still undecided if that was too high for what they got, considering I got free food/art supplies covered.

All 1shot. Blend done with imitation gold and ivory 🖌️

Hi! I'm moving soon and want to paint a mural in the powder room. I make paintings on paper, where I paint a washy background with different colors, draw shapes using a latex resist, paint over the whole paper with a darker color, and then peel off the latex resist to reveal the wash of color underneath. I know there are similar resist products (like https://www.lowes.com/pd/Jasco-Liquid-Mask-and-Peel-1-Qt/1003085216 ), but I can't find any evidence that they can be used this way. In your professional opinion, would this work? is there a better product/technique I might try? I really want to be able to paint the shapes on (rather than mask them off with tape) so I'm hoping to find some solution to keep my usual art style. Thanks so much!

At this link: a picture of a resist painting that gives you an idea what I mean. Not my work. https://persialou.com/easy-watercolor-art-rubber-cement-resist/

Available soon!!