traditional signage: mark a maglaughlan associates

[Carrie Brown]

Oh wow, fantastic job as always guys …. Its great to see the finished result after the design off you had.

😀

[Marekdlux]

It looks great. That is funny how it looks fake. The mock-up you did before looked more real. 😀
-Marek

[Nicola McIntosh]

another superb job jill 😀

so the customer went with the round one 😛 😉

looks good

nik

[Joe McNamara]

Wow , that’s a beauty !
Is the background painted with a fade?
We need a step by step on that one Jill, fantastic!
Cheers
Joe

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Thanks Joe.
As that was my first painted radius fade, I had a bit of trouble.
Next time I do one, I’ll take pix.
It was a pain, as the surface seemed uneven to me.
I needed to use Penetrol to extend the blend time.
With a straight-up roller blend it’s easy-peasy.
I ended up clearcoating it with 1-Shot UV in a can,
and that evened out the background brush marks.
Love…Jill

[Lynn Normington]

Nice job Jill I’m alway’s in awe of anyone’s paint jobs 😎

Lynn

[Hugh Potter]

great work Jill, love the avatar pic btw !,

do you paint free hand, or do you use like a vinyl stensil / mask and draw the outlines from them, or paint thru the stensil or……??????

i dont like painting generally, so i’d love to know how to achieve better results, i certainly wouldn’t consider myself good enought to sell my painted work t my customers !!

[Jill Marie Welsh]

I cheated and made a paper pounce pattern.
My plotter has a pounce wheel built in.
I pounded white chalk thru the perforations
and then just filled it in like a coloring book.
The only thing is, you can get too much chalk.
Love….Jill

[Shane Drew]

I love this Jill.

Looks fine to me on the building too (but then I am well into the beers now 😮 ).

A talented duo for sure. Your opposition must be very unhappy 😛

Cheers

[Hugh Potter]

ok ! dumb question now, what’s ‘pounce’ ? 😳

[Carrie Brown]

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ok ! dumb question now, what’s ‘pounce’ ? 😳

I had to do my research a little while ago when looking into plotters and it stated that it came with pounce 😕 …… my understanding is that you end up with a template/stencil made up of lots of little holes …. bit like a dot to dot.

I could be completely wrong here so I will wait to see what others say it is 😳

[Peter Normington]

I’m sure jill won’t mind me answering in her absense,
Most plotters have a “pounce” function but you have to fit a pounce tool and mat. it outlines the drawing with perforations. on paper or other material. This is fixed to the substrata and chalk is then rubbed or Pounced on, bit like a stencil really.
Peter
As carrie said but beat me too it

[Carrie Brown]

:lol1: sorry Peter ….. your explanation does sound a bit better than mine …… I used the word Dot-to-dot …… perforations is so much better.

😀

[Jill Marie Welsh]

It is a series of perforations.
I pounce plot the design backwards because
sometimes the chalk won’t go thru the holes,
even after a light pass over them with sandpaper.
I lightly draw around the pounced area so I can see where the heck I’m pouncing!
You can use black graphite powder or blue or white builder’s chalk.
This is usually poured into an old baby sock (bet you have a few of those Carrie) and pounded onto the sign.
I find that I still prefer my hand pounce wheel.
It looks like a mini spur on an X-Acto handle.
That is my technical explanation!
Love…..Jill

[Hugh Potter]

now that would give me a little more confidence than hand drawing !! i have a box of bits that came with the plotter last year, spare blades etc, but i miust admit, other than the quick set up quide i didnt read the destructions regards the other capabilites of the plotter !!

i guess the pounce tool is like a hollow punch ?

i have a friend who had been a traditional signwriter for nearly 45 years, full apprecticeship etc, the lot, he packed it all in a couple ofyears back (basically after paying off the mortgage and geting the kids thru college) and now works for tesco’s part time for pocket money, i’m still trying to persuade him to teach me the basics !!

thanks for the answers btw.

[Nicola McIntosh]

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i’m still trying to persuade him to teach me the basics !!
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good for you hope you can persuade him !! 😀 (he must be near retirement age….) 😀

nik

[Hugh Potter]

lol, he is, he’s 63 i thnk, left school early and somehow did a college at course and a full apprenticeship, real nice bloke, funny really, he said about 12 yrs ago about an apprentice, nit aimed at me but i never pushed, wish i had !

just trying to presuade him that he’d feel so much better for sharing his knowledge and passing on his wealth of experience !