Having just gone freelance, I wrote this sign to put up on my mum's house on the banks of the Llangollen Canal. I am hoping someone might ring me up and ask me to paint their boat, but you can never tell! It's on galvanized steel, which I was a little concerned about, having never painted on galvanized metal. It was treated with acid, primed with red oxide, two coats of undercoat and two coats of enamel before writing, and then two coats of clear, so it should be OK! It is written mainly in gold leaf, with enamel.
It is surprisingly bright! In moonlight you can read every word of the gold.
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New metal gilded sign
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