The Sign Painter Movie

[Jill Marie Welsh]

I can’t wait to see it, not sure if I’ll have to go to the Smithsonian to do so.
A few of the guys in the trailer are my friends.
😀
Makes me want to go out and get my brush wet.
Love….Jill

[Harry Cleary]

Does look good, hard to find any info on how it will be released. Get to work Detective Welsh! 😀

[NeilRoss]

Aye, Interesting.

I love the "Sign Painters" sign at the head of that page. How you can clearly see the brush strokes through the shade colour and the slight imperfections in line etc. It’s what gave each free-hand signwriter a personality of their own. It reminds me of when I was learning (still learning!) and I would spend ages analysing how the signwriter had worked the brush – educational!

Happy days …

[Harry Cleary]

quote NeilRoss:

Aye, Interesting.

I love the “Sign Painters” sign at the head of that page. How you can clearly see the brush strokes through the shade colour and the slight imperfections in line etc. It’s what gave each free-hand signwriter a personality of their own. It reminds me of when I was learning (still learning!) and I would spend ages analysing how the signwriter had worked the brush – educational!

Happy days …

The ‘sweetness’ of your line or curve, as me Da used to call it Neil. 😀

[NeilRoss]

quote Harry Cleary:

quote NeilRoss:

Aye, Interesting.

I love the “Sign Painters” sign at the head of that page. How you can clearly see the brush strokes through the shade colour and the slight imperfections in line etc. It’s what gave each free-hand signwriter a personality of their own. It reminds me of when I was learning (still learning!) and I would spend ages analysing how the signwriter had worked the brush – educational!

Happy days …

The ‘sweetness’ of your line or curve, as me Da used to call it Neil. 😀

That’s a good and fitting expression for it. A similar expression is "the line of beauty" – and it sure is.

[Denise Goodfellow]

quote Jill Marie Welsh:

Makes me want to go out and get my brush wet.
Love….Jill

I nearly spit out my coffee when I read that LOL i know it says brush, i just read it as bush….lol

denise xx

[Simon Worrall]

Er! Hold on for a minute there….

This comes from the description on the webpage:
"The resulting proliferation of computer-designed, die-cut vinyl lettering and inkjet printers has ushered a creeping sameness into our landscape."

FIrstly, I disagree with this. In fact, I think the opposite is true. Like it or not, inkjet printers and computer cut lettering have introduced an incredible amount of creativity that could never have been achieved using a brush. The landscape used to be incredibly bland and samey. I remember when I was a signwriter in London back in the eighties. Bland or what!
Now it explodes with colour, shape, and huge graphics that couldn’t even have been imagined 40 years ago.
Having said that, I would like to see more hand painted signs around the place, because many of them are beautiful.

Secondly, to get back into my pedantic self for a bit, vinyl lettering is definitely not "die-cut"
A die is a shape that punches vertically onto the material and makes copies of itself.
Plotters do not and never have used dies. Get your facts right, movie blurb-writers!

[NeilRoss]

quote Simon Worrall:

Er! Hold on for a minute there….

This comes from the description on the webpage:
“The resulting proliferation of computer-designed, die-cut vinyl lettering and inkjet printers has ushered a creeping sameness into our landscape.”

FIrstly, I disagree with this. In fact, I think the opposite is true. Like it or not, inkjet printers and computer cut lettering have introduced an incredible amount of creativity that could never have been achieved using a brush. The landscape used to be incredibly bland and samey. I remember when I was a signwriter in London back in the eighties. Bland or what!
Now it explodes with colour, shape, and huge graphics that couldn’t even have been imagined 40 years ago.
Having said that, I would like to see more hand painted signs around the place, because many of them are beautiful.

Secondly, to get back into my pedantic self for a bit, vinyl lettering is definitely not “die-cut”
This from Wikipedia:
“Die cutting (shearing), the general process of shearing using dies”
Plotters do not and never have used dies. Get your facts right, movie blurb-writers!

Oh yes there was ! 😀 😀 😀
In fact I still have a die cutting (vinyl lettering) machine, and very handy it was too. Until the computerised plotters came on the scene, offering much more flexibility and speed. Obviously I don’t use it any more, long since retired to a shelf seldom visited. Leteron Sign System or something like that it was called – there were two sizes of machines. I think I got them back in the 70s or maybe early 80s.

To be fair though, the material it used wasn’t vinyl, it was acrylic and yielded easier to the die. I’ve tried vinyl in it but although it would cut, it tended to stretch in places without cutting all the way through.

[Simon Worrall]

😳

You got me!

[NeilRoss]

Here’s some photos of the small one Simon.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Leteron-Syste … 0336457107

I have the large model (2 to 4 inch lettering). Manually controlled – you slid the die in, turned the handle one revolution, pulled the die out, slid in the next letter …

All mod cons! 😀 😀

[Craig Ross]

Looks like a good watch.