How to PAINT a Wood Sign Quick & Easy

this Christy Idaho painter how hey my TV today I've got a principle project I'm gonna be painting a sign I'm gonna show you how to go about painting a sign like this multiple colors is then went out and did a search on YouTube because I have the sign a customer wanted painted and I got it and I did search on YouTube how to paint a sign and there's really nothing out there painting something like this multiple colors soon we do this video show up ha show you how I go about doing this so if you make routed signs of wood signs or if you simply want to know how to paint a sign like this stay tuned for this video all right we've got this sign on now in front of us and we're to begin the painting process and I've got multiple colors I'm going to use it so the customer gave me kind of what they wanted to see in this there's gonna be a background color there's gonna be better colors multiple background colors but to start with when it comes to painting a sign like this we need to seal this thing and I've got just a simple spray lacquer we're gonna spray three coats of this lock on here to seal this scientist if you don't seal it when you begin painting on spraying multiple colors and sanding the colors when you see how I'd go about sanding this so I get the color off after I sprayed one layer of it it'll absorb into the wood and it'll be really difficult to see on you'll have to sand way too much of the wood down so you want to seal it first so this is just I went down to my local hardware store I've got a clear mat this is basically a fast drying lacquer so I'm just gonna take and spray this whole thing Reiko and let it dry it's gonna drive really fast and then we'll begin the painting process after that so it's nothing difficult you might want to wear a respirator if you're concerned about your breathing these products and I can't talk and spray at the same time I'm just gonna spray all the edges spray everything on this side with this clear locker I do have a Sandra might be doing some sandy you can do sandy by hand with there's a sponge but I'm gonna be sandy this is gonna make it really fast using some type of orbital sander this is a three by four sander from Equis and we're using some echo silk pads I'm going to be student initial sanding with an 80 grit sandpaper so get a coat on here I'm gonna let this dry and then the first step of the process we have a background down here the background the customer wanted it to match his trailer and he wanted kind of like an off-white color so I'm gonna do spraying my off-white color background first so I'm going to let this dry spray on one more coat on it two more coats on it and then we'll go begin with our white cream colored background alright so I've got my sign it's outside so will dry out faster in the Sun it's a nice sunny day so I sprayed two more coats outside so we're drying really quickly lacquer dries extremely fast so it's got three coats on it we're gonna bring it back in here in just a minute and we'll begin the background color I grabbed a couple of other supplies when it comes to doing the very top lettering you can actually sit there and hand brush them pain sake lees take a long time to hand brush them or we can just roll them and what I'm gonna do is I've got these lenient rollers right here and these are foam weenie rollers and if you don't put a lot of pressure and you could load up one of these rollers and carefully just roll all the letters all at once and you can do it a lot faster then hand brush you know like if you want to just sit down to the table get a light and a small artist frost hand brush um because that's what you want to do for the evening you can always do that I'm gonna show your way that I'm gonna do a really fast and easy with these little foam rollers and I do have spray cans because of the colors that the customer chose I couldn't find any colors in cans to dump bow to load up my weenie rollers but I did find them in spray cans is actually looking for color-wise is one of them is the Ford logo this is gonna be the blue background and this is gonna be the silver lettering when I do the rolling of those letters I'm just gonna spray the can on to into my roller pan right here just unload a bunch of the paint out of there and just load it into my roller and then roll the face of the letters so let me go out grab my sign bring it back in and let's do the background all right here's the sign it's got three coats of our clear matte lacquer on it now and now we're gonna what we want to do is the very deepest background right here this is going to be our cream color and I don't want the cream color on the edge I can get it on the edge and just sand it it's easier just to throw some tape on that edge and I don't want to have to sand or get it on the background of the Ford logo or the top of the Ford and it'd be a lot easier I can just mask that off really quick so there's some things masking will work a lot faster there's some things sanding will work a lot faster and you just kind of got to determine but you can see I can just take and quickly throw some frog tape you know on this edge that way I don't get any of the beads white on this edge right here and I'll actually curve around there's curve portions and this is frog tape and it has like paint block technology on it and paint won't bleed underneath the tape because the edge of the tape has a polymer on it that swells up so I'm just gonna mash this off really quick and you can see this process there we go we've got our edges now just about masked off would happen really fast if you just wanted the background black which is a lot of times that's what you see with these signs though that you spray the background now black a flat black then you sand off the top the lettering stands out and then you would be done here we got this Ford logo so now I'm gonna see if it's a round logo so I'm just gonna mask right around the edge of this logo and the lettering is we don't want we don't really want anything on the four portion and we don't want to have to do any sanding a VAD at all right now so you can see this goes really quick masking wise no just throw some over the top the floor right here and now we're ready to spray our white background see and we'll spray it I'm gonna spray it right here then once again I'll just take it outside and then I'm going to let it dry outside because it's really warm outside this is the cream POTUS is a metallic cream color right here that's that I chose for the background and that was one of the matches trailer the trailer was a clean hello so shake this up and you don't want to spray on a heavy coat if you spray it on really heavy it's gonna take a whole lot of sanding to get it off the tops of your letters so I'm just gonna kind of like missed it in this area just to get the background coated [Applause] some metallic color so it and being cream a cover it's gonna take probably several coats to get this to cover so I got there's one coat on that I'm gonna take that out let that dry and then we'll spray another coat can we set it out the Sun to dry just to spray another coat on here you can see it starting to get that's cream metallic look on the back and let that dry price maybe one more coat all right I got two coats of the background on and I'm actually liking the background not being a hundred percent opaque you could actually see the wood grain through yet it's giving me that cream color look metallic look so I'm not gonna try to cover a hundred percent I'm gonna give it one more coat let this dry thoroughly you don't want this to be wet at all because if you start sanding and it is wet you're gonna get dust and sawdust and so I'll stick to your background colors so I'm going to spray one more coat set it out the Sun let it dry and just make sure you can touch the letters because you're gonna be sanding those then if it's tacky at all you don't want to be sanding it all right there we go three coats get to go set it outside let it dry and we'll be back all right tar cream color metallic cream is dry now now what I'm actually going to do instead of sanding the letters I'm going to peel this off cuz we're going to do the background of the Ford logo so I'm going to pull that off and leave this stuff on and just masks around here and let's pray this blue now so the background of the form will be done so I'm just gonna take some frog tape and begin masking this off because I don't want to get any overspray or any paint down here on this our metallic cream color so we'll get this just mask it nice and tightly once again this frog tape will help any bleeding from stopping down here the tape does Bend fairly well but when I get around this corner I'll have to tear a lot of little pieces I'm gonna push them up against that edge so it doesn't bleed down the edge you can kind of see that you just want to get a nice kind of thin we'll see how see how well if any the blue does bleed underneath there and we could always touch it up at the end and this is all done with just a little artist brush we just take an artist brush put some little spray paint on a lattice brush and then tap it off see this is working pretty well here do you have some frog tape blue which is actually less expensive than the Frog tape green because it comes in contractor packs and we're going to use the inch and a half to fill this in love it boxer all right I think we got that masked off nice and tight now if you're really worried about overspray getting on around the rest of it you can throw some paper plastic the cardboard down on that to cover that all up all right here we go now we're gonna map missed on the background of our poured logo now I don't want to put it on heavy this is gonna cover a lot better than the pearl color you put it on too heavy you definitely will get some bleed bleed through around those edges so just a light mist is all we want to do so looks like I got it's looking good right there all right we have our blue all sprayed now so the blue is on there and we have to let the sign drive for quite a few hours because we didn't want to take in the risk sanding the top right here the tops of the letters and get any dust tacked to our background so it took a little bit longer for it to dry but it is alright now I could go about painting the numbers now I could take my roller and just roll the top server not the numbers but the letters roll the tops of the letters or I could sand the top so the letters I'm going to show you know the Pens on you know what colors and what the end result of yours your sign is gonna be like a lot of signs I see there got a black background then they sand on the black right off the top of the letters and then either is because in the letters are kind of a white color because the wood is light and it stands out really well I could go ahead and actually roll paint over the letters going to show you what the sanding process it looks like right now I'm just going to clean off my table get rid of all this stuff that I don't need you now and we'll begin the sanding process I have a little X and four three five four sander right here I'm gonna be using an 80 grit sandpaper on the Equis and the sand those letters off and you have an orbital sander or some type of Sanders like this it's gonna make the sanding process significantly faster than trying to do it by hand but you can't do it by hand if you want to I'm just going to put some lids back on the products that I've used and don't need anymore my letters on top of my my four letters are going to be silver and then that's what matches the Ford emblem the brown the letters the power stroke parking Olie is going to be done in this brown so now let's begin the sanding process right here so here's the three by four standard just got a eka silk 80 grit sanding pad right here and we'll begin standing this [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and I got to all the bottom letters sand it off and here's a couple pointers and I did spray the background I used a metallic product from Home Depot rust-oleum product right here and it was a like a semi-gloss product and it had some machine to it makes and means really difficult it clogs up your sanding pads you know really bad when it comes to sanding because it just melts gets soft lot of sanding pads if you're gonna do any type of sanding of any of the letters is up you really should use a flat paint because it won't actually clog up the sandpaper and just powder rough and sand really fast so it took me a handful of sanding pads to actually sand those letters so I didn't really need to sand it because I'm just gonna be going over the top of them with my color for my letters so I'm gonna begin but I just wanted to show you the sanding process of what it would look like I could leave those letters the way they are now to paint the background there's just a lot of a lot of opportunities to do different types of colors and different color schemes on the sign but I'm going to now do the letters I'll do the letters in by Brown rust-oleum color and I'm going to be rolling them with this roll right here just with a flat roller right on the top and I'm gonna be putting the paint in a pan the color that I actually needed I could not find it in anything but a spray can so I'm just gonna spray a bunch of it into the pan load up my roller and then roll right on from there so just begin spraying load up a whole bunch of it it's not going to take very much at all to paint these letters so begin the process just putting some in this pan right but I don't want it on here too heavy so now I'm just going to lightly go over the top of it alright just like this let it soak in and then move on I don't want to put any pressure on it just let it roll over the top of your letters let's see how it's coming out with there that way I hope I sit there and painstakingly hand brush every one of them I can just roll it really quickly this is actually coming out better easier than I thought not like the rest of the sign the sign is actually posed few challenges here and there trying to do it in some different metallic products and stock versus you know flat paints but this is these letters of how being metallic is going to give it kind of a cool looking finish here just take your time you can see this is all a just a couple minutes doing this versus sitting there and hand brush and every one of those with the artist brush so that's all just like that power stroke is done I think I'll probably do I show what I'm gonna be like walk around yeah I'll do my other matters here that f350 my f-350 will look a little bit different because it was but I didn't sand those because I wanted them to look slightly differently so they'll have a metallic finish underneath and over the top those numbers off so far what it's looking like and I'm going to do the same same technique for the four part I'm using a different roller the silver [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so now just to give the outline I'm just taking some rust away on a flat black they just want it back to just stand out a little bit differently I'm just roll away and I have mixed it with some of the brown to kind of give it a flat black and a brown look to it nicely think that was the right choice luckily I definitely did wear a respirator if I was doing this for a living everyday or quite often I'd be definitely using a rest later I got to be able to talk to you tell you what I'm doing so I'm making a little bit of a sacrifice to give you this information and not wearing a respirator but once again always a good idea to wear a respirator so just about got the edges all done and that is you know pretty nice how to do a sign fast the easy way without using a bunch of little artist brushes so and using multiple colors you know all at once [Music] so there you have it how to paint a sign quickly and efficiently my way it's not necessarily the right way just way that I came up with I've done a few of them I haven't done a lot actually did some different things when it came to paying this because it was just different than what I used to do and I just try it out some different you know techniques one of the things I realized is this metallic coating right here does not sand very well typically what I've painted signs in the files of the wood signs like this it was always flat paint that sanded you know easily but it didn't end up turning up very well using these foam rollers right here made painting the letters extremely fast you'll hopefully if you've enjoyed this video if you liked it give me a thumbs up if you want to see more give me a not a thumbs up but hit the subscribe button you get the notification bell if you don't hit the notification bell and just to subscribe button you won't get notified every time I come out with a new 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Id: 1Tr7wZLNHoM

Length: 28min 35sec (1715 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 01 2020