#SignPainter

Sam at BLAGblag@typo.social
2025-07-22

London folk, you are invited to the world premiere of 'When Better Letters Met Brian Walker' next Tuesday, 29 July.

Find the full listing at bl.ag/brian and please pass along details of this free event to friends and family.

#SignPainting #SignPainter #Signwriting #Signwriter #ShortFilm #Hackney #London #Boost #BoostsAppreciated

Invitation in the style of a cinema ticket. It reads: "You are invited to a special screening of a short film, 'When Better Letters Met Brian Walker'. Tue, 29 July. Time: 6:30pm–8pm. Free admission. Chats Palace, 42–44 Brooksby's Walk, London E9 6DF." On the stub is the BLAG logotype from the Better Letters Magazine masthead.
2025-05-30
When your children built a raised bed from found wood and you could quite resist hitting it with the Blackletter ;-)

#blackletter
#thecoffin
#nosferatu
#signpainter
#signwriter
#letteringartist
#alwayshandletter
#alwayshandpaint
#gothicmum
#rusticblackletter
#recycledwoodraisedbed
#jillstrongsigns
#jillstrongart
Rustic raised wooden flowerbed with the words the coffin painted in blackletter on the side
2025-05-27
Clothes horse full of kanji.
These are for a friend's end of school year dance performance; painted on sheets of white fake leather, they're flexible enough to stand being whirled around.
We added the red marks so her pupils can easily get them the rightway round :-)

#signpainter
#signwriter
#kanji
#kanjidancesheets
#japanesecalligraphy
#fakeleather
#jillstrongsigns
#jillstrongart
Large white sheets marked in black ink with japanese kanji set out to dry in the sun on a clothes horse
2025-05-15
Got a very special house guest here for a day-off on his European tour...
Mike Meyer is painting royalty (even if he did show up with a massive suitcase full of dirty washing :-)

#mikemeyersignpainter #mikemeyersignwriter
#europeansignwritingworkshops
#mikemeyervalencefrance
#signwritingroyalty
#signwriter
#signpainter
#alwayshandletter
#alwayshandpaint
#jillstronglaundryservices
A washing line full of Mike Meyer sign painter t-shirtsMike Meyer sign painter enjoying a plate of beans on toast
Sam at BLAGblag@typo.social
2025-05-12

Thank you to everyone that has already backed this Kickstarter to get signwriter Brian Walker's story told in a short biopic.

You can back the project from as little as £1 here: kickstarter.com/projects/samro

Please boost/repost, and tell your friends!

#Signwriter #SignPainter #Clapton #Hackney

Man posing with sign painter's tools in front of a hand-painted sign resting on a window ledge. The sign is on a red background and the lettering is headed up by the name 'Brian Walker', under which is 'Traditional Signwriter' and a phone number.
2025-04-04

A painted 'krulletter', on the window of the smallest pub in Amsterdam: 'Café De Dokter' (18 sq. meters).
Lower name clearly by a different sign painter.
#signpainter #signpainting #amsterdam #publettering

2025-03-31

J.S. Beekmann (1895-1986) was a highly regarded Dutch sign (and heraldic) painter. In the background a model of his Amsterdam script letter. The photo is by Paul Huf, as part of an advertising campaign for traditional craft beer.
#signpainting #signpainter #lettering #dutchlettering

2025-03-26

Back in the Rijksmuseum Research Library (aka Cuypersbibliotheek) to have another look at the lettering book with alphabets by J. Weenink, 1843. Manuscript, no printed copy of it known. Weenink (1797-1879) was an Amsterdam letter- and decorative painter. Coll. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
#RijksmuseumResearchLibrary #letteringbooks #signpainting #signpainter #lettering #dutchlettering

2025-03-24

Sign from c. 1900, painted by J.W. Beekmann. Small signs like this accompanied Amsterdam laundry that was washed outside the city (in cleaner water) and bleached. Coll. Allard Pierson, UvA.
#signpainter #signpainting #allardpierson

2025-02-17

Lettering book by J. Weenink, 1843. Manuscript, no printed copy of it known. Weenink (1797-1879) was an Amsterdam letter- and decorative painter. Coll. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
#Rijksmuseum #letteringbooks #signpainting #signpainter #dutchlettering

2025-02-06

BARGEPOLE, besides being an object, is also a British expression; a shortened form of 'I wouldn't touch that with a bargepole.'
It means 'no way.'
An example: 'Do you have a Facebook page' and I could answer 'Bargepole.'

For the letterheads, this is inspired by a 1817 Vincent Figgins typeface.

#bargepole #vincentfiggins #letterheads #victorianlettering #ornamentedlettering #goldleaf #signpainter #letteringartist #signpainteruk #jillstrongsigns #jillstrongart #letsescapethemetaverse

Iridescent and gold leaf fancy Victorian letters B and A on a royal blue background hand painted by lettering artist Jill Strong in 2025Iridescent and gold leaf fancy Victorian letters R and G on a royal blue background hand painted by lettering artist Jill Strong in 2025Iridescent and gold leaf fancy Victorian letters E P and O on a royal blue background hand painted by lettering artist Jill Strong in 2025Iridescent and gold leaf fancy Victorian letters L and E on a royal blue background hand painted by lettering artist Jill Strong in 2025
2025-02-06

Probably by Johan Beekmann (1895-1986), the leading Amsterdam sign painter of his day. Just happened to see it recently at the office of this association.
#signpainting #signpainter #dutchlettering

TravsLettersTravsletters
2025-01-30

American Made sign, hand painted and sold last summer, curious where it lives now.

Sam at BLAGblag@typo.social
2025-01-01

@carolski Shout out to the Schildermalermuseum (Sign Painting Museum) in Vienna:
schildermalermuseum.at/index-e

We made a short film about its founder Josef Samuel: bl.ag/josef

#SignPainting #SignPainter #museum #Vienna

Sam at BLAGblag@typo.social
2024-12-14

@onpaperwings Fun fact: Woody Guthrie also painted signs.

Here's one of his from the 1960s in Pampa, Texas, as featured in this article about celebrity sign painters: bl.ag/celebrity-signwriters-pa

Photo courtesy of the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives, and Woody Guthrie Folk Music Centre.

#WoodyGuthrie #SignPainter #SignPainting

Blurry black and white photo of a shopfront with a simple painted fascia sign that says "Harris Drugs".
2024-10-17

Corriere.it - Homepage by di Paolo Robaudi
Loris Lillo, il «letterista» di Milano alla Libreria Bocca in Galleria: «Dipingo a mano le vetrine, smalti e foglia d'oro»

Il lavoro per il 250° anniversario. Originario di Monopoli, 30 anni, è arrivato a Milano per studiare computer grafica a Brera. Poi la folgorazione, grazie a un artigiano americano, e la notorietà grazie ai social

Translated:
Loris Lillo, the "sign painter" of Milan at the Bocca Library in the Galleria: "I hand-paint the windows, enamels, and gold leaf."

Work for the 250th anniversary. Originally from Monopoli, 30 years old, he arrived in Milan to study computer graphics at Brera. Then the revelation, thanks to an American artisan, and notoriety thanks to social media.

#Italy #US #LorisLillo #BoccaLibrary #Monopoli #Milan #Brera #signpainter
milano.corriere.it/notizie/cro

Sam at BLAGblag@typo.social
2024-09-17

@simplebits @exkclamation Here's Painter Kafeel's interpretation for the 'Wise Words' segment in BLAG 02 (bl.ag/02).

Learn more about Kafeel and his work at bl.ag/kafeel.

#SignPainting #SignPainter #WiseaWords

A square canvas painted with lettering that reads 'Measure Twice, Cut Once'. The whole composition is in bright colours with flowers and other decorative elements on and around the letters.
Sam at BLAGblag@typo.social
2024-07-26

Friends/followers, please welcome sign painter, artist, and all-round top person Jill Strong to the fediverse. Give her a follow here: mastodon.art/@jill_strong

You can check out Jill's work at jillstrong.com, and take a look around her home studio at bl.ag/watch-the-free-recording.

Jill is also BLAG's science correspondent, and wrote a brilliant online article all about lead in paints: bl.ag/lead.

Here's to more sign painters making the leap!

#FollowFriday #SignPainter #artist

Sam at BLAGblag@typo.social
2024-07-18

What are your favourite books about British pub signs? I'm working on a very special bl.ag online piece and want to include some recommended reading.

Pictured is renowned pub sign painter Stanley Chew from The English Pub by Andy Whipple and Rob Anderson.

#signs #pubs #inns #SignPainting #AskFedi #SignPainter

Man carrying a large painted pub sign in a rural setting.

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