Let's Paint Morecambe: Beginners Guide to Signpainting with Ciaran Globel

[Music] oh hi i didn't expect you to hit place listen you're here for the same writing course okay no no don't worry come in i'm just finishing up some lunch um let me get squared away and i'll be with you in just a minute so you're from morkum fantastic i used to go there on holiday when i was a kid lots of great memories so you'd like to try a better sign painting fantastic well it's not the typical way i would teach but such as a world right now that online learning is the way to go it's actually the way that i learned when i first started there wasn't many sign panels that i could speak to so i taught myself by watching youtube videos i would also buy any books i could find on the subject and it's with that diy spirit that i'd like you to join me in this beginner's guide design painting one of the best ways to learn about any kind of trade is to look inside the trade person's bag and so let's take a dive in and see some of the typical tools that a sign painter might take on a job the first place to start would be to look at the same painters brushes some of these are animal hair and some synthetic and they come in different shapes and sizes same painters enamel paint is typically oil-based and dries to a high gloss finish white spirit is used to thin the paint and to clean your brushes cups are used to hold your paint or your white spirit and stirrers for mixing paint the tool that everyone seems to ask about the mild stick it's used to keep your hands from touching the surface in which you're painting measuring tape for accuracy a chalk line might be used in order to get an accurate baseline for your painting [Music] masking tape is always handy [Music] a pounce pad holds chalk and allows you to transfer your design from your pounce pattern onto the surface and this is the punch pattern which would contain your design it's basically just a chalk stencil typical drawing tools might feature a couple of different rulers and some different pencils ones that can draw on glass or on concrete are always handy i find the multi-tool to be quite handy it's obviously got a variety of different uses just remember to take it out of your pocket when you go to the pub applying a small amount of neat sweet oil to your brushes once you've finished using them keeps them from drying out and gives them a nice shape and last but not least the thing i always forget to bring something to clean up with thankfully to learn the basics of lettering and sign painting we don't need quite as many tools but let's now have a look at what we will need most flat acrylic brushes will work as to with the synthetic longer-haired sign painters brushes good quality acrylic paint it might take a while to find the right brand it's sometimes a bit of trial and error [Music] a less costly alternative could be a small vial of acrylic ink [Music] any kind of container that you have that could hold the quantity of paint or water finding the correct paper is important if it's too porous it will soak up the ink and bleed out this particular paper is used for sewing patterns it's called dots and crosses another good alternative is craft paper as it's quite easy to find and pretty cheap masking tape in order to hold your paper onto your working surface [Music] nothing too glamorous here just a ruler and pencil will do some people don't feel comfortable using a mouse stick to begin with but if you want to give it a try a simple piece of doweling with some tape on the end will do the job [Music] finding the right brush is the first roadblock that many face when they first start out letting find the right consistency of paint if it's too wet you'll make a mess of the carpet and if it's too dry you'll be there all day [Music] piloting your brush on the rim of a cup or on a flat surface is really important it keeps your brush nice and sharp as we move forward it's important that you have a few things in front of you a brush a cup of paint a cup of water a ruler a pencil and be in a comfortable environment that may mean being sat at a desk with a slightly angled flat surface in front of you or you could even tape the paper against the wall and stand upright let's start with some casual lettering draw in your baseline and mark seven centimeters above because casual lettering is usually an italic you might want to draw in some slanted lines to help you pencil in your intended letters make sure you give yourself enough space between each before you paint make sure you have the right consistency and that your brush is well paletted each letter being painted can be broken down into a few stages and here is highlighted by the use of different colours yellow being the first red being the second and blue being the third [Music] remember that the letters that you penciled in at the start are just a guideline you don't have to follow them if it means that your letters will look weird do your own thing let's look at these brush strokes using just one color most of these letters are painted with a downward stroke sometimes there's a sideways stroke or a diagonal stroke but very rarely is there an upward stroke if you can paint one letter you can paint the entire alphabet let's look at ways in which you can expand one letter out to all letters [Music] if you can paint the letter a it's really only one stroke difference in order to paint the letter n [Music] the letter b really isn't that much different from the letter r and the curvature of the letter c allows you to paint letters like g or o or q let's now look at ways to render some block lettering unlike the free-flowing nature of casual lettering block lettering requires more in the way of craftsmanship feel free to follow along using the measurements provided you may need to pause and replay [Music] setting out ample space between your letters is known as kerning for this example the width of each line will be one and a half centimeters feel free to add as many guidelines as you think you need this is the foundation of each letter so the more accurate your foundation the better your letter as you can see here i'm using a few different sharpie pens but that's mainly to aid visibility for this video you would be using a pencil and a rubber razor to fix any lines you need try using a dashed line when you're drawing curves even if the letter you're drawing is entirely curved like the letter c or o it's still important that you use a square foundation do [Music] okay so i think this is about the right amount of guidelines needed let's now try and paint in order to achieve sharp edges you will need to twist your brush into each corner this requires not only mobility in your wrist but also your fingers look at the green flag on the end of my brush to see how the brush is twisted into each corner so as you'll notice the brush really stays on a straight path you're constantly twisting the brush and rotating your fingers whether it's a straight line or a curve [Music] sometimes you can feel a certain amount of stress when you're first starting out lettering so it's really important to have a open posture it means breathing freely and making sure your wrist and your fingers are mobile [Music] and don't forget to pilot that brush between every stroke so do [Music] i understand this is a lot to take in so let's go back to the very start one last time let's paint the letter a together start by drawing a 10 centimeter squared box and a dashed line down the center mark the two bottom corners and one centimeter out left and right from the middle line connect the dots and draw in two horizontal lines of the same width holding your brush midway up the handle using the tips of your thumb index finger and middle finger will allow you to twist the brush and get these nice sharp edges when first learning lettering the process of capping off the end of each stroke is sometimes a real challenge so this is where it becomes really important to twist the brush and twist the fingers well let's call that tea time that was a lot to take in but i think it did really well it's worth reminding ourselves that none of what we've covered today is easy it's a real challenge looking back on my own experience i feel like giving up so many times but something just told me that if i just kept trying eventually i would get it right [Music] it may be a cliche but sometimes it's true practice makes perfect prefix you

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Keywords: Morecambe, Signpainting, IOAFS, Painting, Art Tutorial, Art Workshop, DIY, Signwriting

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Length: 17min 51sec (1071 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 12 2021