COMING SOON TO A WALL NEAR YOU!
We’re getting ready to paint our name on the side of the building, and ended up finding this little gem of a video about the disappearing art of sign painting. I’m disappointed that human hands so rarely touch the common objects in my life, dismayed that makers of things need not invest in time or effort, so the carelessness of ugly becomes our daily detritus. (My stars, what a thick sentence.)
Tip 1: Notice the brushes. Short bristles make short staccato brush marks. Long bristles (like the ones sign painters use) make long fluid lines.
Tip 2: Watch how many tricks and tools the painters use to hold their hand steady.
I’ve loved Franz Kline’s black and white abstracts for years. I didn’t know until recently that the forms were sparked by the shapes of a rocking chair, and that he used a projector to see his inspirations large on the wall before he painted. OMG because I use a projector too! I must be just like …
Leon Golub was an awkward man who made ugly paintings. They’re about power mostly. Violence, war, and other unhappy things. I learned about Golub in art school, around the first years of the internet. What impressed me more than his large scale work and hard edged process was his collection of reference images. Golub had file cabinets full …
Victorians combined images from multiple negatives to create portraits known as “Headless Photographs.” (19th century) Not one cracked a smile. If Victorians had Facebook, would they have posted this? Happy Halloween!
Art News by Anika D. We all know that abstract art has made a big comeback on the art market, but how many of you know that abstractionism is also the favorite style of the presidential couple Barack and Michelle Obama? Unlike his forbearers, Barack Obama seems to be tired of looking at all those boring …
Sign Painters
COMING SOON TO A WALL NEAR YOU!
We’re getting ready to paint our name on the side of the building, and ended up finding this little gem of a video about the disappearing art of sign painting. I’m disappointed that human hands so rarely touch the common objects in my life, dismayed that makers of things need not invest in time or effort, so the carelessness of ugly becomes our daily detritus. (My stars, what a thick sentence.)
Tip 1: Notice the brushes. Short bristles make short staccato brush marks. Long bristles (like the ones sign painters use) make long fluid lines.
Tip 2: Watch how many tricks and tools the painters use to hold their hand steady.
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