Christmas presents

Just got done making a sign for my step dad. thought I would show how I did.


I started with a pencil sketch and then inked it in.
I then scanned that into my computer and scaled it to size and printed it out on 6 pieces of 8.5 x 11 paper.


I transferred that to the plywood and cut it out and started painting
I also took an old weathered 1 x 12 that had been outside for a few years and sketched the lettering on


after it was all painted I put a plywood spacer behind the truck and mounted it to the 1 x 12, I then added a french cleat to the back of the sign and sanded it a little to make it look like it's been around awhile



here's a picture of the truck after it was built 2 years ago, I also pinstriped the flames and lettering on the truck

and here it is with the sign I made earlier this year.

work, work, work

well work has been a little busy, my personal life has taken a turn, and things in general are fantastic.



I redid the Cary's of Oregon candy store signs as they had repainted the building, got the go ahead on repainting and refurbishing some signs for a property owner, repainted the sign at Oregon Swiss Precision, and finally installed the for lease sign I did a month or so ago. Also did some logo signs for Oregon RV Outlet, and some t-shirts for the robot club.



I will also be doing some more work for Thrive wellness, and some inside signs for OSP. And got another sign for the baseball field, gotta get to it before the rain starts.

gonna get some bills paid.

casting call

Couple of weeks ago I got a call from an older lady wanting some copies of a primitive hand carved wall hanging. not having done something quite this large I severely underestimated materials, but now have a little better idea how much material these things take and how much they cost.




the one in the center is the original, and the customer was very happy.

updates

A couple of weeks ago my work computer went belly up. I was using win98 and it was harder and harder to keep working online as there was getting to be less and less support for that OS, so all is good except that I lost 10 years worth of work, but no one died and now I get to start all over, some fun and some not so fun.

work has been piling up as I get the new system talking to my old hardware, which has been a little frustrating at times, but mostly everything seems to be working, now it's on to rebuilding files many from memory, and as I get older that's starting to go, so I'd better hurry :)

despite no computer and plotter I have been doing some molding and casting and hand painted signs that I took to the local rat-rod show.

Thrive

finished the signs yesterday and installed them today, translucent vinyl on Lexan plastic. This is the same stuff bulletproof windows are made of

it's BBQ time

here is the latest job. done in sherwin williams resilience line of paints

I spent a couple hours coming up with the pig logo on Mon, had it OK'd on Tues made patterns that night and painted early Wed. Next up I'm going to make a small model of the logo in 3D so that I can upsell them on a sculpture to go over their door. it's gonna look cool.

challenges

I was asked to paint a panel to replace the ad panel in a coke machine, the paints I use are opaque and the panel would be backlit so I needed some transparency. I mounted the panel up on some 2 X 4's and leaned them up against the partially open garage doors so I could get light behind the painting and know how much paint I was laying down. The difference is like night and day.



here is the panel with light from the front





and here it is lit from behind