Percy, I've been cleaning my sables with Ivory bar soap. Work the soap and water into the heel of the brush, and rinse. Continue until no more color comes out. Then, work soap and water into the brush again and leave in, shape the brush with your fingers, and stand upright overnight. The soap paste ...

Torquay? I'm beginning to wonder 'bout that town.
Crazy Englishmen gildin and rubbin bacon butty?

I believe there will be another ISGG workshop coming soon, Leo.
Oct 24-26, if I'm correct.

Two things go straight to a man's heart...
bullets and gold. You got the best of the two.

A man who's a man, needs someone to believe in.

nice gilding. Very nice gilding.

If I ever get the money,
I'm gonna buy me a ticket and fly over to that island.
See all that gilding personally!

Well, I didn't expect so much interest. Thanks for the historical timeline, Erik, very interesting. Sometimes a man's life depends on a mere scrap of information. Perhaps I need to explain, when I begin a project like this, I always let the design evolve. A man has to change sometime. And many times...

Well, I didn't expect so much interest. Thanks for the historical timeline, Erik, very interesting. Sometimes a man's life depends on a mere scrap of information. Perhaps I need to explain, when I begin a project like this, I always let the design evolve. A man has to change sometime. And many times...

Billy Bob,
there's charcoal in that sketch
and Sharpies, too.
I tried hard.

Billy Bob,
there's charcoal in that sketch
and Sharpies, too.
I tried hard.

good point, Billy Bob... them new fangled cameras were around in them days to take the picture... however, it will be painted into the mural, not a digi-print. In the new sketch, I sketched the decorative oval on tracing paper to reproduce two of the same, and hand cut the opening for the photos. I ...

good point, Billy Bob... them new fangled cameras were around in them days to take the picture... however, it will be painted into the mural, not a digi-print. In the new sketch, I sketched the decorative oval on tracing paper to reproduce two of the same, and hand cut the opening for the photos. I ...

for fun, I decided to post a step by step of a large mural I'll be painting soon. I know about computers, some, but certain jobs require certain skills. The mural is to honor the first merchant in a new town called Lodi, around 1875. Imagine, a town built around a railroad. The rendering will also i...

for fun, I decided to post a step by step of a large mural I'll be painting soon. I know about computers, some, but certain jobs require certain skills. The mural is to honor the first merchant in a new town called Lodi, around 1875. Imagine, a town built around a railroad. The rendering will also i...

a little follow up here, Englishman... I belong to small art salon here, five artists who gather together every couple weeks, call ourselves the 'Red Moon Art Whores' since our inaugural meeting happened on a lunar eclsipse. One of the artists brought me a clip from the Wall Street Journal. see link...

a little follow up here, Englishman... I belong to small art salon here, five artists who gather together every couple weeks, call ourselves the 'Red Moon Art Whores' since our inaugural meeting happened on a lunar eclsipse. One of the artists brought me a clip from the Wall Street Journal. see link...

only need three things for rendering the verre eglomise techniques...
passion
patience
persistence

if you're gonna persist, you have to persist harder.

nice persistence, Smitty.

only need three things for rendering the verre eglomise techniques...
passion
patience
persistence

if you're gonna persist, you have to persist harder.

nice persistence, Smitty.

Crikey!....lucky skunks!

Nice, nice design to take home as a very memorable finished project....


I noticed in the background of the photos a united cigar and la azora cigar panel...
the seem to be everywhere...are those from a mail order company?

Aho

Howdy Miguel, Yes, in the case of moving forward with the client, I would take the approach of advising less copy, more effective... and justify with the thought of the additional copy is money spent with less return. Which brings to mind... are times really changin? We still have to be the educator...

yep.. we are. And for this reason, and with the advice of a few others letterhead friends, when I receive a request like this I politely tell the potential (?) client I can refer them to three different sign shops to obtain estimates. My forte' is creating an original client image, and if they prefe...

The powers of the medicine give sacred visions.


They're not for you at this time.

Other fasteners will come along and kill those off, too.

I guess I'm a little confused here... Vance, you handletter, dont' you? Don't mean to sound harsh but I can't understand why roll coat the paint and then mask when you can save the mask and weed time and handletter from a computer pattern, that can look even better, because now you have the artist's...

iWell, you asked... Ive been very fortunate after stickin to my focus of all work hand lettered only, though i have slipped in a few quick slap jobs over the years just to get em outta the way. That plus the continued after 'respect' from hosting the first ever walldog meet west of the Rockies, have...

nuthin matters anymore,
not the gold, not the lettering, not the pictorials...
cuz now I know you'll tell me what you're after.

only at the point of western movie banter.

and currently working on another... what are we going to do with this one, Frank... photos in step by step glazing progress... http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff81/artony/frank0.jpg http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff81/artony/frank1.jpg http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff81/artony/frank3.jpg

squeezed in time to paint this watercolor...

and just about ten days ago, hung these six 5' x 7' canvas panels inside the local beer company... http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff81/artony/lite1.jpg http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff81/artony/dopp2.jpg http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff81/artony/ipa3.jpg http://i242.photobucket.com/alb...

It's been the year for pictorial work, with a bit of hand lettering. Completed this 8' x 100' mural March '08... http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff81/artony/pal1.jpg http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff81/artony/pal2.jpg http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff81/artony/pal3.jpg http://i242.photobu...

Mark... In a workshop with Frances Binnington, we 'decopauged' newsprint into the glass with elmers glue and water. I've been wanting to test this with some acrylic paintings, but have not as of yet. I wouldn't with watercolors, but I plan on testing gouache this way as well. If you get a chance, se...

Wow, thanks for the photos, Dave.

That's some very nice acid etching and beautiful coloring.



And that acid room....

looks like that Blake fella's gots some buildin to do.