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I finally finished up the American Brewing Company sign I had started awhile back. In an old post, on the old forum, I had talked about commissioning the painting that's in this sign from a company in the Ukraine. I believe it ran me about $100. Having the painting, I created the sign for it to go in. It is a replica of an old sign that I got out of one of my books. The sign is about 62" x 45". I had also written up some instructions on the letter shading technique I used on the "Brewing Co.". It can be found under one of the Sign making 101 posts at: viewtopic.php?t=282&highlight=blend
Special thanks to Roderick Treece for sharing his technique on faux finishing the frame to look 100 years old! I was very pleased with how it came out. ...although I need to make my glass art look older.
Larr the sign looks great. The frame came out looking old as dirt good job. Maybe Rodereck could give a post on his method on the faux finish. Thanks for shairing Larry.
Larry,
It looks beautiful, as always. Really nice color scheme and shadow on "Brewing Company".
When I was out at John's during Gilt By Association, I saw this cool old glue-chipped Chapman & Smith piece. The mirroring was tarnished and it was set in an antique wooden box-type frame. Snapped some pictures of it thinking it was an old Rawson & Evans. Then I noticed that it was parked next to Roderick. To my chagrin (and admiration) I found out that it was a piece that Roderick had done. Nice work, Roderick.
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