Sign Painting / Signwriters / Gold Guilders

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These are fantastic dude!

Yes, great thread. Thanks for sharing.

Forgot about this thread @konastab01 - add some stuff I have been doing too.

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Jealous of the skills on display here. I do love a bit of sign writing but I do not have the the eye, the hand or the taste to consider even dabbling.

My buddy Mia took it up a few years back is single-handedly beautifying Margate one shopfront and fanlight at a time. I'm not sure she has a website but some of here stuff is on facepank if you search for Mia Apples. She's also one half of the genius team behind Amy Grimehouse and Margate Pride.

I've not heard of her, but I'll check her out man.

A bit more painting this week whilst printing is quite.

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Stress of Covid and quite work lead to four days of single stroke lettering practice. Very therapeutic to just form the shapes. Trying subtle changes to letters as I go. Some random phrases and words do appear though.

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This is great, nice touch with the ornaments on 'fancy'. I've been meaning to start practicing calligraphy again. The breadth of LFGSS surprises me again.

Cool thread.

Couple more things before I head off on paternity leave for a couple of weeks.

Going to be doing a load of gilded individual letters when I get back and put them up on my store.

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I'm trying reverse gilding for the first time for the fanlight above my front door. I did my first application of gold yesterday and it went pretty well - a few small creases but I was pretty pleased for a first attempt. I've just gone and done a second application and it looks like the original gold is lifting a bit when I flood the size. Any tips @konastab01 @Manson7am?

Also the overlap where I've laid one leaf over the other is really pronounced. How can I mitigate this?