Have a job to letter a logo on an enclosed trailer and have a concern about how to apply paint to seems in side panels. Im concerned about cracking if I apply a bead of paint over seem in side panels or if I should do a line that joins at the seem. Anyone got any advice Id appreciate it. Using oneshot, all black. Im probably over concerned but I want to make sure its done properly.

Hey all! I’ve just about finished an MDO A-frame but Im wondering if I can add legs or something to give it a 3 inch lift. (Should have just cut the legs from the start) Any suggestions or recommendations? I’m a little nervous because I know I’m going to have to drill some holes into it 😭 Thanks so much!

1”1/4 MDO Unsealed at the moment, painted with enamel.

I have a few of these little aluminum sign blanks I want to put words on. One side is bare metal and the other is what looks like a thin layer of gloss white paint of some sort. Before I attack these things is there prep to either surface aside from a good cleaning and degreasing that I should be doing? It looks like it’d be good to paint straight away, but I am self taught and don’t have enough experience to know enough to know.

My ocd pays the price. Painted using 1shot on a 9x12 canvas for some small brush practice. Realized pretty quickly that the texture of the barely prepped canvas + old house in summer with no A/C and wrong reducer + small size brushes (mainly Kafka script liners 5/0 and 0) + a little OCD + small dog jumping on me to check my work=a fair bit of frustration. Lotta lessons learned on this little practice piece that was only intended to play with some block letters. At least my kids liked it. All hand drawn and hand painted. As always any and all pointers and advice is welcome and appreciated. Thanks!

Practice brush casual alphabet on tracing paper using Alphakrylic jet black with some Liquitex Slow Dry medium. As some these turn out somewhat acceptable, I decided to throw a shadow on it with random teal and border it with red, border needs work but in my defense I know I rushed it and paid the price. I know I should do these more often but I shoot for at least one a week. Any and all pointers and advice welcomed, always trying to learn.

hey all, anyone know where to order enamel receptive banner blanks from ? I’m not seeing them on Glantz (could be missing it).. Thanks !!

It is my and my aunts first project using one shot paint, and I was wondering if anyone would maybe be able to give us any suggestions for pricing this project?

Project Breakdowns:

Design creation with options: 4 hrs Painting: 16hrs (2 - 8hr days) Supplies: $60 (Brushes, stencil, mineral spirits, etc.)

Client supplied:

• 1 4oz can, Black, One Shot Paint
• 1 4oz can, Polar White, One Shot Paint

Any tips or suggestions are appreciated!!

hey everyone. i’ve been messing with the two Os and the S for a bit and i am struggling to make them look ok. I tried making the bevel in the bottom of the Os and S right in the center of the letter, and that looked pretty bad, as does this way where I tried marching it to some distorted beveled lettering i found online. anything jump out to anyone that could help me with these letters? thank you in advance !

Do sign writers generally design and make logos or do they mostly take existing ones, paint them and print them?

I ran out of black paint so I asked a guy if I could use India ink, just for practicing with. I won't name him here but he's a real sign painter. Anyways he said go ahead but it looked like a problem right away. The ink didn't mix with the residual thinner that was in the brush and it looked like a real problem on my palette. I cleaned my brush out and oiled it and cleaned it out again and switched to blue alphanamel and it still went on real weird, lots of bubbles in the paint, some of them maybe look black. Before you get on my case I had a whole box of paint stolen that UPS left outside the gate so I was looking to keep practicing before I went through the rest of the little paint I had left. Did I lose a brush to save a couple ounces of alphanamel or will I be able to clean the ink out eventually?

I never used one and just orderd it online. With white and dark blue powder. My question is, if i want from white to blue. How to clean it? I can not find the awnser online anywhere.

What generic signs do people find to be good sellers? Things like "open" "toilets" "cash only" "no smoking", that sort of thing

I am doing a window painting with One Shot paint (103L-Polar White & 199L - Lettering Black) in the next week.

I was hoping to thin the paint a bit but was wondering what to use?

• Odorless Mineral Spirits
• One Shot Low Temp Reducer

With the outside predicted temp being 60°-70°F, which thinner should I use?

Any help & tips are appreciated!

Im looking to get my partner a sign writing / painting workshop for Christmas as he’s always wanted to have a go at it Any recommendations? I can only find outdated courses.

I have been all over youtubes looking for a sign painter doing the roman alphabet. i really haven't found anything. does anyone have any ideas where i might find something? thanks in adv

Does someone have a good link for som prectice papers i can print and out behind glass for practice? Thanks in advance. Sorry for bad english.

looking to buy a set of mack brushes but there is so much variety on their website not to mention other brands that may be better suited for me.

i have a couple blick brushes that work well for the time being, think id prefer something with more of a "snap/firmness" to the hairs as opposed to softer

Hey yall! I'm doing my first commissioned sign at my work at the end of this week. It's going to be an espresso menu! I already have the designed scales to fit inch increments- and the sign is going to be busy looking. It's a large menu and we have simplified it the best we could. Anyways I am approaching this with maybe using a grid and projector. I'm a portrait painter so I use grids a lot- but the scale of this project is 22x97 inches. That's a lot of grid to make! Very intimidating! I was wondering if anyone has any tips or techniques they use for this kind of painting? Thanks in advance

What paint to use for large wooden panels As a background? (sorry for my bad english)

I've attended a couple of workshops and am interested in progressing as much as I can in sign painting but I'm getting bogged down about how I should go about practicing and the goals I want to hit along the way. I've just been practicing causal and gothic alphabets but would like to move past that and eventually freehand an alphabet and explore other fonts outside of gothic and casual.

I know any time with the brush is helpful but I like having a milestone to work towards.

How did y'all practice when you were starting out? Any advice is appreciated 🙏