Hi Charles, way back, i used some glycerine to combat crawling of showcard paint on a slightly slick type of paper. nowadays, i use it like oil on my quils,stripers, that is, after cleaning brush, work glycerine into the hair/heel...wash out w/water when ready to use again. This is mostly to combat ...

how is the List shaping up for Boise? I'm really looking forward to this workshop,it's the Right Time!!


John

Thank you, Larry, what a wonderful collection of work!
Rick's shop/store/museum/Wonderland must have been quite Magical. Fortunate all who experienced
it, along with them.

John

William, Greetings! Like Raymond said, the "pencil grip"...(i call it the Death Grip) restricts brush movement, avoid the death grip! lol Also as stated, brush lettering, like so many things, is very individual...Raymnd used thumb and middle finger, i use thumb and finger next to it (whate...

Carlos, where are you living?

Charitable things.... hey, no work orders, no budget, just do what you know is needed, plus a bit more, it can't get any better, eh?

let's talk...

John

Good to hear your fast progress , Jennie! btw, without Light Out, and meal breaks.... you can spend Way More Time on gold leaf & lettering.... ask us how we know!

John

Jim, stuck in the Past, my favourite place to be!! You would have loved Mazeppa!!

let us talk about the Past, eh!

John

only to say... all the best to your boyfriends new Life, and yours too! doing this work(love) is very good for the soul, as he has discovered. Hopefully, you both can appear here in words /art and inspiration occasionally.

John

Thanks, Russ, for all that work! I'll be calling you in a few days, to hear all about it.
Next Workshop is??? LOL,sooner or later, i'm going to get there!

John

Yo Ho Fernando!!!

John

Beauties, Terry!! I love the routed out compartments for the brushes... are those dual stroke striping brushes???

Sure hope i win the Kit you're bringing...i'm sure it will clear Customs back to ...BRITISH Columbia!!

John Lennig

Mike Welborn.... where are you??

and on it goes.... in the last month, i patched up some gold leaf in a "location", a local Mansion in vancouver, the the crew had damaged, did a B& B sign, this all for the L Word, then a gold window job for a feature, "Marriage, and for the last 3 weeks, hve been lettering all ou...

and on it goes.... in the last month, i patched up some gold leaf in a "location", a local Mansion in vancouver, the the crew had damaged, did a B& B sign, this all for the L Word, then a gold window job for a feature, "Marriage, and for the last 3 weeks, hve been lettering all ou...

Wow, Wayne, you had FUN!! That is a terrific piece, did you all do different colours for the multi shades?

West Coast??? hope So!!!

John

Fine Stuff, Mark!

I've been steered into using acrylics,house paints, doing the work in tv/movies....and it's FUN to be able to work so fast, drying and keep on painting, heat gun if need be!!

Plus, now i get to have 2 separate sets of brushes!!

John

Today will be my last day working on a Movie,"All Lit Up"(just recently renamed "Deck the Halls") with Danny Devito and Matthew Broderick. 2 other signwriters and i have spent the last month handpainting well over 150 signs, small to large, 2 ghost signs, Christmas windows.... it...

Today will be my last day working on a Movie,"All Lit Up"(just recently renamed "Deck the Halls") with Danny Devito and Matthew Broderick. 2 other signwriters and i have spent the last month handpainting well over 150 signs, small to large, 2 ghost signs, Christmas windows.... it...

Thanks, Mike, for the story of Taos Blue. Even if it's only part true...it's fascinating! We will be in Taos next month, and i will be aware of the Blue now, and not have to make up my own story/theory... :lol: We'll also be in Santa Fe and AB... doing a 2 week loop , any "must see" sign t...

Larry, Very Inspirational! Thank you.

John Lennig

Welcome, Joe! Sounds like you got the Fever :lol: Ironic, what you say about a dearth of Letterheads in your area, tho. A fantastic signpainter/designer was from Dothan...Chester Cunningham. When his work first appeared in Signs of the Times... it knocked me(and lots of others too!)out. He then had ...

and he's not to bad at painting trucks in the middle of the street, either!

Hi Rod!

John

Thanks, Felix!!

looks like lots to peruse there, lots of cities...

John

hmmmm, just getting back to this...

I actually liked the colour shifting effect.... but subsequent tests didn't give the same pronounced effect. I had used blue green backing up a light bronze powder. More testing needed, i was thinking of using it for window lettering, not with gold leaf,...

John

I was playing around with the mica powder, in reverse, on quick size, then backing up with diffrent oshot colours. Sometimes, i'd get a "colour-shifting" effect, looking at the work from different angles. need to do more testing.

John-posting from Santa Rosa, in the Rainy Season!!!

John S., re: the Victorian Sign Making, i've got the ISBN no. American Life Books(publisher?), is there an author? or how about when it was reprinted. Just more stuff for abebooks search...

thanks, John Lennig

Steve, sure looks good from here!!! Photos are Great! Such fine work!

I'm hoping to get to see John's shop in the near future.

John

Well, not to hijack this post, but i'll take the opportunity to Thank Danny for the Glass Stand he makes!

It's such a pleasure to use, compared to what I was using!

Glass Chipper...now wasn't that Cinderella??

John

I picked this up at Lee Valley yesterday. The International Cyclopedia of Monograms Alphabets, Initials, Cyphers, types, Crests, Coats-of-Arms, Emblems, Badges, Shields & Decorations. Whew! Orginally Published in 1910 Algrove Publishing - Classic Reprint Series ISBN 0-921335-86-5 It's 15.95 cdn ...

I would enjoy hearing peoples account/results of this Glass Gold workshop.

thanks. John