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    Posted by Gary Johnson on 10 December 2012 at 04:31

    This is a self promotional sign I created for our showroom. The sign is a combination of many techniques which are meant to showcase a number of our strengths which include hand cut and polished brass lettering, cnc carved polyurethane, hand painted faux wood grain with both 23K and variegated gold leaf over prismatic lettering and graphics that have been enhanced with a gorilla glue technique. The figure is a self portrait with our shop dog DiDi hand painted and sculpted out of epoxy resin.


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    Henry Barker replied 12 years, 9 months ago 14 Members · 15 Replies
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  • Chris Hansen

    Member
    10 December 2012 at 06:15

    Fantastic!

  • David-Foster-

    Member
    10 December 2012 at 07:44

    Brilliant! How big is it? Nothing to show scale on photo.

  • Martin Cole

    Member
    10 December 2012 at 08:44

    Wonderful work Gary, your a talented guy.

    dead spit of ‘Phill Collins’ (with hair)

  • Phill Fenton

    Member
    10 December 2012 at 08:58

    Excellent, and the dog looks like Pudsey 😀

  • Cheryl Smith

    Member
    10 December 2012 at 09:10

    brilliant!!! 😀

  • Hugh Potter

    Member
    10 December 2012 at 10:58
    quote David-Foster-:

    Brilliant! How big is it? Nothing to show scale on photo.

    well derrrrr, look at the tape measure 😉 😉

    great work, very talented stuff!

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    10 December 2012 at 11:16

    and to think i never get round to doing our own vans, never mind a self carving of yourself! 😮 :lol1:

    fantastic work Gary, love the detail you have went into here.
    what sort of size is this piece overall?

    thank you for taking the time to load your work.

  • David-Foster-

    Member
    10 December 2012 at 12:00
    quote Hugh Potter:

    quote David-Foster-:

    Brilliant! How big is it? Nothing to show scale on photo.

    well derrrrr, look at the tape measure 😉 😉

    great work, very talented stuff!

    But what scale is the tape measure :lol1: could be twice as big or half the size.

  • Graham Shand

    Member
    10 December 2012 at 12:16

    Loving your work, very creative, lots of detail and a lot of work well done indeed

  • John O'Sullivan

    Member
    10 December 2012 at 12:28

    super work gary 😀

  • Mike Grant

    Member
    10 December 2012 at 21:24

    Sweet! 😀

  • Martin Pearson

    Member
    10 December 2012 at 23:18

    You need to get out & find some more customers, obviously got far to much time on your hands if you can do stuff like this for yourself :lol1: :lol1:

    Absolutely brilliant by the way, wish I had the skills to produce work like that.

  • Gary Johnson

    Member
    11 December 2012 at 04:21

    The entire piece is only 66cm high x 45cm wide. I wish I had more tme to work to work on showroom pieces like this. It was a lot of fun to make, but it was a lot of late nights and stolen hours here and there. Every once and a while I just need to turn off the computer get my hands dirty and show customers that I am capable of more than traffic signs, nameplates, directories and the like. Thanks for all the complements, it means a lot coming from fellow signmakers like yourselves!

  • Adrian Hewson

    Member
    11 December 2012 at 20:35

    Absolutely stunning mate a true artiste, wish one of my guys could do this

  • Henry Barker

    Member
    12 January 2013 at 11:20

    Great to build up some shop samples, I think a lot of us make the mistake of thinking we have no time for our own samples, but half an hour here and there, or running doubles of a similar sign or parts and you are up and running. That said one of my sample walls painted 2 years ago is still looking abit empty. Easier said than done!

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