My buddy Mike Meyer just posted a nice one on the portfolio table. get you a cup of coffee and head on over to the table and drag up a chair and look at some of the cool things my fellow letterheads have posted there. http://www.letterhead.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000424.html
"Mark Fair is a Proud Contributor to The Letterhead Site!"
Posted by Bruce Jackson (Member # 45) on :
A wonderfully lively painting and super fast!
Just thought I'd take the post into a discussion on hand-painting pictorials.
How long will hand-painted banners like this be done? I have done my fair share but I'm regarding them as almost extinct these days.
Years ago, large printing was far more expensive than painting. As the prices gap closed, I saw one large client move to printing (on the misguided preception that they would get a more "consistant" result!!!)
The economics have changed to a point where printing is cheaper, at least on small scale stuff, less than 5-10 square metres. Larger ones are still more expensive to print
Here's the way I see it Bruce, and by the way thank you. I am in a small market therefore I may not do 5 banners a YEAR. I believe that a banner, vehicle, billboard stc. with a digital print is like a magazine ad to me. It's too perfect and I blow right by it. The "hand done" pictorial work leaves room for error and you still get the point across, but it has PERSONALITY. The billbaords which had hand painted pictorials from years ago are the greatest (in my opinion). How long will they be done? Well, seems to me that the Sign Industry will always have a small group of people who stay to the old ways of doing things. Letterheads are a good example. As long as there is this need and someone can get excited over how facinating it is to receive money for doing something that you love to do, it will always be there. Yesterday I knocked out a window splash for a good friend of mine who owns a Sporting goods store. (Bob was and still is one heck of a Goalie!) anyway, my 1950 Studebaker was my work Chariot and it was parked in front of his store at a busy intersection for 4 hours, I got lots of exposure! It took me one hour to paint it, 3 hours to sit down with Bob and order Bottom down jersey's for my Softball team for this season! Orange and Blue Baby! While I was there for the entire time, 3 people came in and bought In-line skates because they saw the window! I charged Bob $200.00, and it will come off the price of the jersey's. Ain't life grand? Have a good day down under and remember to throw off those pickles when you order a hamburger.
------------------ Mike Meyer SignPainter 575 1st Street Box 3 Mazeppa, Mn 55956 (507) 843-5951 EMail-mikemeyer@sleepyeyetel.net http://www.markfair.com/mikemeyer check out this great web site..www.grainbelt.com
Posted by VICTORGEORGIOU (Member # 474) on :
Good artists will do what they have done since the beginning of time - they will adapt to the technology and continue to serve that small percentage of the overall population that appreciates hand created work and is willing to pay for it.
Ten years ago or so, you could have had the same conversation about vinyl cutting machines. My impression is, hand art is alive and well. The same will hold true for digital printing. Vic G
------------------ Victor Georgiou Bob Loves Signs Inc Danville, CA email blssign@pacbell.net
Posted by Bruce Jackson (Member # 45) on :
hahahaha. If they're made by that Scottish restaurant with the red-headed paedophile, I'd rather eat the pickles and throw away the hamburger.
Bruce, last year my shop was invaded by Aussie's..John Sargeant and John Jordan. I got a real education on what a "POME" is. One of the "Mates" was facinated by our Orange School buses. When he saw one for the first time he thought it was going to a classic car show er something. I breifed him on the fact that we still use them today and the Mayberry TV is not as far off Hollywood as ya think! Also he was rather fussy with food, and yes us Americans throw out and waste more that anyone. It was fun and I'll go down under myself someday, but I will leave the pickles on!
For people wondering.."POME" means "Prisoner Of Mother England" this is what was tattooed on prisoners as they were shipped away from England to the new place they found to get rid of their criminals...Australia. Have we learned something here today people?
------------------ Mike Meyer SignPainter 575 1st Street Box 3 Mazeppa, Mn 55956 (507) 843-5951 EMail-mikemeyer@sleepyeyetel.net http://www.markfair.com/mikemeyer check out this great web site..www.grainbelt.com
