Donna, myself and our son Kyle went out for ice cream tonight, we went to a local spot that makes fresh ice cream. This place has nice hand painted signs & trucks. They allways catch my eye when ever I drive by.
So we pull in and walk up the counter and EVERY sign from the menu to the little plugs for the banna split is hand painted with flair. Nice blends on the cones & ice cream, little snappy scripts, frozen peaks on the word "ice cream" and so on.
Every sign had character and actually did it's job selling the product. God I miss that! I used to love hand drawing every sign right on the panel, then painting it.
But then I thought to myself " how much did this guy charge and did he make money"
I have to remember to keep my designs fresh and creative. Sometimes the only way to get that "look" is to actually do it by hand.
I was really refreshing to see that. Sometimes it is good to see how far I have deviated from my original plan.
God I can't wait for the Duck Soup meet!
------------------ Bob Rochon Creative Signworks Millbury, MA bob@creativesignworks.com
"Some people's kids"
[This message has been edited by Bob Rochon (edited July 21, 2001).]
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Posted by Pierre St.Marie (Member # 1462) on :
Gave you a good feeling, didn't it. I have a little secret about some of our "natural feeling" signs my kids reproduce in vinyl film. I use a brush and good old Lampblack on illustration board. I do the lettering by hand with the brush, scan it, dump it to the Gerber program and the kids can do the layouts and manipulation for reproduction. From there they can shadow it or whatever, and it still looks like a natural painted sign.
------------------ St.Marie Graphics & Makin' Tracks Sound Studio Kalispell, Montana stmariegraphics@centurytel.net http://www.stmariegraphics.com 800 735-8026 We're chiseling every day of the week! :^)
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
We stopped in an ice cream store in Sedona Arizona last year and the menu's were chalkboards with magnificant lettering and illustration and proportions. They were done by some folks in Huntington Beach California and I called them and they have Australian accents.
------------------ The SignShop Mendocino, California "Where the Redwoods meet the Surf"
Posted by Bernice Tornquist (Member # 16) on :
Bob, take your camera when you go for ice cream next time....would love to see those pictures.
OK Bob THATS IT BUSTER!!!! the parking space for your travel trailer is ready(waiting for you)paint,brushes,thinners,flow enhancers,pallets,charcoal sticks,pattern paper,yardsticks,projector.pounce wheels,charcoal dust(pounce bag)EVERYTHING for a guy that USED to love to paint signs!!! All here in one(1)location calling YOUR name (can Bobbie come out and play?)
see ya'll here in 54days,3hours,9minutes,22seconds
------------------ PKing is Pat King of King Sign Design in McCalla,Alabama The Professor of SIGNOLOGY
Posted by Arvil Shep' Shepherd (Member # 2030) on :
This is addressed to Pierre......Just how many out there (other than myself) might would know what LAMP BLACK is ??????? Just a thought... Shep'
------------------ Arvil Shep' Shepherd Art by Shep Oak Island, NC shep@ec.rr.com http://artbyshep.homestead.com/index.html " As long as they say your name, you will live forever"
Posted by Pierre St.Marie (Member # 1462) on :
Hey, Shep! Back in the "old days", all illustrators used Lampblack for doing lettering for advertising.....fashion illustrations (the skinny girls with longer legs than humanly possible), furniture, appliance illustrations and advertising art. I was an illustrator before I began sign work, so lettering brushes, illustrating brushes and lampblack were a daily thing for me. Lampblack is water based and a kind of guache. I still use it.
------------------ St.Marie Graphics & Makin' Tracks Sound Studio Kalispell, Montana stmariegraphics@centurytel.net http://www.stmariegraphics.com 800 735-8026 We're chiseling every day of the week! :^)
Posted by cheryl nordby (Member # 1100) on :
On one of Ciscos visits to Seattle (Pike Place Market) we saw this handpainted ice cream shop window. It looked great up close...the picture misses alot of detail. I always wondered who painted it.
It makes me think back to one of my first jobs.....it was an ice cream shoppe!! I handpainted a big ice cream bar on a mirror. Sandy's Candy and Ice Cream. I was so proud of that job. (until it fell off the wall and broke) bummer ------------------ surf or MoJo on mirc Cheryl J Nordby Signs by Cheryl Seattle WA.....! signsbycheryl@hotmail.com
