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Short clip of Aaron Stephens demonstrating the craft of signwriting at the Bovey Tracey Craft event 2025.

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

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

The Boyd is Back in Town

https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2025/05/the-boyd-is-back-in-town/

Boyd Pianos’ ghost sign on Shaklewell Lane, London E8, revealed again after 13 years’ hibernation.

#BoydPianos #GhostSigns #Ghostsigns #Hackney #London #Palimpsest #Pianos #Preservation #Protection #Reveal #Signwriter #Signwriting #StreetArt #Theatre #UK

An exterior wall with a wooden lattice structure for mounting a billboard visible. In the absence of the billboard, a fading hand-painted sign advertising Boyd Pianos is visible. Photo via History of Stoke Newington.

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-shirts

Mike Meyer sign painter enjoying a plate of beans on toast

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: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samroberts/when-better-letters-met-brian-walker-a-short-biopic?ref=9wh6qg

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.

Man up a ladder. Celebrity sign writer Thomas Paint in the village today. Top talent. #signwriter

I've been contacted by an established shop in Hertfordshire that's looking for a freelance #signwriter to do a day or two a week with them.

Their work is for pubs, and they need someone that's able to get going straight away with shadowing, surface gilding, double coating etc.

This is not a trainee position, but there will be opportunities to learn 'on the job', and you'd need your own vehicle.

If you or someone you know might be interested, then send details to sam@bl.ag.

#SignPainting

H. Newman & Sons (Have Removed), Melbourne

https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2024/06/h-newman-sons-have-removed-melbourne/

A surviving palimpsest in the centre of Melbourne reveals the legacy of the jeweller and watchmaker Henry Newman. Photo: Sean Reynolds.

#Australia #Melbourne #Palimpsest #Signwriter

A portion of a brick wall adorned with a fading painted sign that reads, "Newman’s have removed to 289 Collins St., 1 Door from Elizabeth St.". There is lettering visible below this too, making two layers present at the same time, although this earlier layer is less legible.

New at bl.ag online, 'Ye Olde Sign Shoppe: George Biles, King of Signwriters': https://bl.ag/biles

Learn about the diverse and prolific output of sign painter George Biles, and a retrospective exhibition in Bridport, Dorset, this summer.

Photo courtesy of Ken Allen's George Biles photo album.

#SignPainter #signwriter #SignPainting #calligraphy #lettering #art #artist #DecorativeArt #pictorial #bridport #dorset

Black and white photo of an elderly man with a painter's palette standing in front of a 'Welcome to Bridport' sign that he's working on.

The sign features a combination of lettering and pictorial elements, which includes the text 'Twinned with Sant Vaast-la-Hougue' and 'Please Drive Carefully'.

The picture is of a queen on a throne in a flowing dress and gown, and arched windows behind with sea views.

There are also two coats of arms flanking the main lettering at the top.

'George Biles: King of Signwriters' is an exhibition across multiple venues in Bridport, Dorset, 1–29 August.

https://www.bridport-tc.gov.uk/george-biles-lottery-project/

This will be quite special, and in the coming weeks, I'll publish a piece at https://bl.ag online.

I'll be making a day of it on Friday, 23 August, so if you'd be interested in joining me then send me a message, or email sam@bl.ag to coordinate.

#Bridport #Dorset #SignPainting #signwriting #SignPainter #signwriter #exhibition

Piece profiling recently deceased Hull sign painter Alan Stutt, alongside a gallery of his work in the city.

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/gallery/signs-you-see-over-hull-9240161

#SignPainter #Signwriter #Hull

New at bl.ag online, 'Ye Olde Sign Shoppe: Gran Canaria’s Tomás Prieto Gálvez'.

https://bl.ag/tomas

This is my latest adventure in translating Spanish sign painting articles, and another from Jaime Medina about a sign painter from the Canary Islands.

#CanaryIslands #SignPainter #signwriter #SignPainting #signwriting #GranCanaria

My friend, sign painter, and all-round top man Shawn at Providence Painted Signs has had a tragic accident putting him out of work for the foreseeable future.

I would appreciate any boosts that can help spread this Gofundme to support him during his recovery/rehabilitation. And of course donate whatever you can.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-local-artists-healing

#boost #SignPainter #signwriter

Headline caught my eye lol

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-68610143

#signwriter #signpainter #daventry #PotHole #protest

Nice extended profile of Justin Lim, a sign painter in Fort Wayne, IN:

https://www.inputfortwayne.com/features/JustinLim-profile.aspx

“I would say surround yourself with other artists, I mean that's the best way to grow and learn different things. Plus, it's just inspiring to see other people's shops other people's studios, and other people's artwork. That kind of thing it just keeps you growing so you don't get stagnant, it humbles you to see someone doing like amazing stuff.”

#SignPainter #SignPainting #Signwriter #Signwriting

Originally shared with me by regular correspondent Adrian, here is StockCarPete's photo of a ghost sign for 'Rickards, Signwriter, Carriage Painter &c.'

https://www.flickr.com/photos/stockcarpete/53205869250/

Signs for signwriters are my favourite category of ghost signs, and @RoyReed found a 1913 listing for our man: Alfred Rickards, wheelwright at 48 Carmichael Road, Norwood.

Roy was also able to get a drone shot of it via google maps

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3962103,-0.0755173,29a,35y,151.15h,79.22t/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu

#ghostsigns #ghostsign #signwriter #norwood #london

Anyone know anything of Frank McComb and his sign shop? It is shown here on 9th St, Pittsburgh, about 90 ft north of Penn Ave, looking north.

The photo is from 1909, so the firm was contemporary to the H.H. Seiferth company recently profiled at https://bl.ag/seiferth.

Picture courtesy of the Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection, 1901-2000, housed at the University of Pittsburgh digital library.

#signpainter #signwriter #signs #pittsburgh

Detail of an archival black and white photo showing a shopfront with wooden fittings and windows.

There are dimensional letters fixed to the fascia board which say "Frank McComb" and, beneath these the word "Signs" is lettered (and probably gilded) twice in the upper portion of the windows.

The main window then has more lettering with the "Frank McComb" name in a cursive, and the word "Painter" below that, both likely gilded.

Archival black and white photo with a detail of the upper portions of terraced buildings. A mounted sign in the space between two floors' windows has mounted dimensional letters reading "Signs", flanked by smaller panels with the words "Brass" and "Glass" painted onto them.

Archival black and white photo showing terraced buildings on an American street.

In the foreground there is construction work taking place, which has resulted in a deep trench between the buildings/shops and the tram lines running down the middle of the street.

The buildings themselves are adorned with various forms of mainly painted signage, including one building that is white, in contrast to the other darker premises, with the word "Signs" displayed prominently in the space between the first and second (second and third in the USA) floors.

Save the date: For all of August, there will be an exhibition in Bridport, Dorset, about the life and work of George Biles, a prolific signwriter, decorator, and scenic painter whose career spanned nearly 70 years.

A collection of his Palmers Brewery pub signs have survived, and will be displayed alongside drawings, and more.

I'll post more in the future, but for now, there is an extract from a 1932 article about Biles in the alt text.

#signpainter #signwriter #signpainting #bridport #dorset

#Signwriter

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