23k Water Guilding/ Glue Chipped glass

[Daniel Kneebone]

Heres a few other signs I’ve done…

Mind the burgandy outlines (Tafe ran out of black)

Hand cut from MDF

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Would really appreciate comments!!

Thanks
Daniel

[Daniel Kneebone]

Just adding a few more of my signs to the gallery 😀

Heres a sandblasted sign (words read Lyrical Commision)

MDF eagle on signwhite

And just an enamel signwriting job on Plywood…

Sorry for the triple post aha!

Daniel

[Neil Davey]

Great work Daniel, it’s always good to see more traditional artwork on the site.

How long is your apprenticeship over there and is it all college based or are you with an employer?

Keep ’em coming………..in all my years I’ve never glue chipped……must get some glass in and have a go.

Neil

[Daniel Kneebone]

Thanks Neil!

Our apprenticeships are 3 – 4 years depending on what your employer wants…

In my case I got a 3 year because I had been working with them for 2 years already…

I basically work 4 – 6 weeks then go to college for a week block.

You should really try some glue chipping! It’s quite easy and you get such a great effect from it!

My boss is very traditional, we signwrite a majority of our signs so i’ve been getting the old style skills built up!

I’m only 20 now so hopefully if I keep at it I can keep the art alive!

Daniel

[Jill Marie Welsh]

If you are only 20 now I can’t imagine how good you will be at 40.
Nice to see the younger set having an appreciation for and a hunger to learn traditional sign arts.
Love….Jill

[Harry Cleary]

Excellent work and good to see!
Address for the Cafe please??? 😀 😀

[Peter Normington]

Some good stuff there Daniel,
thanks for sharing.

Welcome to the boards

Peter

[Daniel Kneebone]

Thanks Jill, Harry and Peter!

I’m going to keep at the traditional while also keeping up with Technology which is going so fast!

I’m interested in seeing some more traditional artwork, the traditional side of this forum doesn’t seem to move very quickly lol…

I see you do quite a bit of gilding Jill, is there quite a demand for this type of work in your area?

The main gold work we still do is honour boards and small stuff like that…
People are even sticking honour boards nowdays! 😮 (:)

[Peter Normington]

Hey young chap,
you missed out thanks to Neil,

Peter

[Daniel Kneebone]

Hey Neil, just a little confused as to what i missed out on!

[Daniel Kneebone]

quote Daniel Kneebone:

Thanks Neil!

Our apprenticeships are 3 – 4 years depending…………………

Daniel

Oh oops I get ya! I thanked him in the previous post! Look at the above quote… :lol1:

[Lars.wac]

Really nice signs Daniel. Especially the glass sign. How did you make that blue kind background? It looks cool

[Michael Dunn]

really liked the apexi sign

out of interest – was the green thumb just an exercise – or a job from the other side of the world?

[Daniel Kneebone]

Lars – I haven’t done the background yet, that is just a DP vinyl on the back to imitate what it WILL look like…
The Australian Sign & Graphic Association are coming to our training campus to have a look at the apprentices work & campus…I’m hoping one of my projects makes the magazine especially the gold leaf one 😛

Micky D – thanks!
The Apexi one was my first project all the way back in first year! Lots of sanding involved ah!
The green thumb one was just an exercise, we had to create a cafe or pub so I thought what the hell. that sign is all stippled enamel blends in reverse on the back.

[Glenn Sharp]

some great looking stuff there Daniel……I’d love to see more as you progress

[Jill Marie Welsh]

quote :

I see you do quite a bit of gilding Jill, is there quite a demand for this type of work in your area?

I stink at gilding. Luckily everyone thinks it’s real expensive, so I rarely have to do it!
Usually people just want SignGold.
I have seen some of those gilded honours boards over there, simply astounding.

[Daniel Kneebone]

Thanks Glenn, stay tuned for more hehe! I will definatly post pics of future work!

Jill, I was trying to find pics of some of the gilded honour boards my boss has done… I may be able to later!
They’re amazing, you can see time go by as a different signwriter takes over the job, the style of writing differs or the colour of the gold varies…
But that just adds to the authenticity of it all! some honour boards go back decades!

I would like to see some of your gilding if you have any pics Jill, you may say you stink but at least you get your brush wet & pull out the book!

Daniel

[Jill Marie Welsh]

I do stink at it. I always flood the gold.
I am having better luck using slow size but not much better.
There are some examples on my website, just click the button that says www at the bottom of this post.
Don’t want to hog your thread.

I think doing honours boards would be tedious yet fun if I could get it right. I am sure you’d have to put a few drops of paint in your sizing so you could see what you were doing!

[Daniel Kneebone]

Yeh you can drop a few drops of light yellow into your sizing, that will surely help lol.

It is definatly tedious work, I can’t say i’ve done honour boards before, I know when my boss does them the are worth $40aud ($27.7us) a line…so that’ll get you a name & date

I’ll check out your website now Jill, didn’t see it down there before!

I’m hopefully handwriting a banner next week so I’ll post it up, it’s just simple text but worth a post i suppose 😛

Daniel