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.
Lendy is on a little trip in Maine, so I asked her to send me art. She sent me some text messages from the museum: Ashley Bryan. He is heroic. (…) It’s not just the wretched tale of slavery. It is his curiosity and headlong approach to art. He made books, puppets, prints, paintings, collages. …
This is a post about a new member of the Seattle Artist League: Mary Shea. I’m proud to say she’s set up to teach drawing with us this quarter. I wanted to share some of her work that so excited me. I met Mary Shea in one of our online art class during the pandemic. …
I know the rain is dreary, especially when our moods are pulled by pandemic, isolation, news. But the rain has rinsed the pollen from the air, and for that I am thankful. In class on Tuesday, Fran O’Neill shared a few of her favorite landscape paintings. She showed the Van Gogh above, one I haven’t …
…Unless it’s very pretty that way. Here’s some snow for the Seattle Snowpocalypse survivors. This woodcut is made with black ink on long fiber board paper. Herschel Logan printed this in 1930. According to Logan, the image was taken from an early photograph. You may have noticed, you astute reader you, that the composition is …
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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