Dublin city centre pub signs,just done

[Harry Cleary]

Nice job Shane….is that the one with the funny clock?

[Martin Cole]

Good work again Shane, well done mate.

[Shane Ralph]

quote Harry Cleary:

Nice job Shane….is that the one with the funny clock?

yeah there is a clock on the gable side Harry

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Looks like a fun job. Very traditional looking stuff, which I enjoy seeing.
It would get a bit monotonous after awhile though especially dragging through without lettering enamel.
Dumb question, is the ginger man a red-haired guy or a gingerbread cut out cookie?
Love….Jill

[Shane Ralph]

quote Jillbeans:

Looks like a fun job. Very traditional looking stuff, which I enjoy seeing.
It would get a bit monotonous after awhile though especially dragging through without lettering enamel.
Dumb question, is the ginger man a red-haired guy or a gingerbread cut out cookie?
Love….Jill

Is named after an interesting book..It follows the often racy misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American living in Dublin with his English wife and infant daughter and studying law at Trinity College.

This book may be considered part of the fictionalised roar of the end of the Second World War hiatus, also represented by the colossi of American literature: John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck. Dangerfield is an American Protestant of Irish descent, commonly believed to be a thinly fictionalised version of the author, but is more broadly based not only on Donleavy but also some of his contemporaries at Trinity. The hero, Dangerfield, is a portrayal of lifelong bohemian and friend of Donleavy, Gainor Stephen Crist, as told by the author in "A History of The Ginger Man".

The book gives us the map of the terra incognita of late 1950s sexual encounters in Dublin. Donleavy’s later books spell out the aftermath (particularly A Fairy Tale of New York, which later inspired Shane MacGowan’s song "Fairytale of New York", recorded by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl).

[Neil Davey]

Great looking work Shane and nice to have some history to boot.

Bet that green was a nightmare to cover in ordinary gloss paint!!!

[Shane Ralph]

quote Neil Davey:

Great looking work Shane and nice to have some history to boot.

Bet that green was a nightmare to cover in ordinary gloss paint!!!

you said it there..that was a big issue a nightmare is putting it mild….no more gloss signs for me

[Nicola McIntosh]

lovely work 😀

[David-Foster-]

Beautiful work Shane. Did you do the layouts with chalk and string etc or did you use paper templates pounced?

[Peter Normington]

Beautifully precise, love the shadows,
Peter

[Shane Ralph]

quote David-Foster-:

Beautiful work Shane. Did you do the layouts with chalk and string etc or did you use paper templates pounced?

Thanks David , nah.. designed them on to a roll of lining paper rubbed a large pencil to the back of lining paper,positioned & taped paper to the work surface.Then drew round the letters with a pen.Take paper away & your left with a perfect imprint to paint in. Just clean off any excess pencil marks when sign is dry.
Sounds like a lot but its not really & always works well for me.

[Joe Cieslowski]

Those look great!

Thanks for posting them.

Joe,

Makin Chip$ and Havin Fun!

[Lorraine Clinch]

quote Shane Ralph:

quote David-Foster-:

Beautiful work Shane. Did you do the layouts with chalk and string etc or did you use paper templates pounced?

Thanks David , nah.. designed them on to a roll of lining paper rubbed a large pencil to the back of lining paper,positioned & taped paper to the work surface.Then drew round the letters with a pen.Take paper away & your left with a perfect imprint to paint in. Just clean off any excess pencil marks when sign is dry.
Sounds like a lot but its not really & always works well for me.

You make it sound so simple! I had no idea, before your explanation, how you ‘proper’ signmakers did the job!

Lorraine

[Ezekiel Ikhinmiwn]

That’s some really nice work Shane

Well Done