Sign Painting Project – Beginning to End
This little sign gives a fair understanding of what goes into a wall sign painting project. I took a couple of minutes to document the steps.
By the way, the client, Little Sparrow Cafe, is in Santa Ana, California.
First step: after finalizing a design, we typically create a paper pattern, perforating the lines that have been drawn out on paper with an electric pencil. This tool puts small holes in the paper that allow charcoal (or chalk, on a dark wall) to transfer the design onto the wall.
Custom colors are matched if necessary (here the circle-logo background was a custom color, the lettering black. Then, on site, we set up the ladders and transfer the paper design to the wall with charcoal. Ready to go!
Here you can see the logo background, which has already been brushed in with fast-drying paint. You can also see how the charcoal design remains, to be filled in with paint.
Now, the project is finished. This fine little restaurant gets the understated look they were looking for.
If you’re in the Orange County area, you might want to go visit! You can find them online here: www.littlesparrowcafe.com
Here is the final product:
Recent work: A couple of hand painted projects this week
Hand painted work – a double-dose this week…
First, a hand-painted school mascot mural in Rowland Heights, completed this week:
And here’s another TGI Friday’s “Promise Wall”, hand painted in San Bernardino this week:
Recent work – hand painted signs – H&M Self Storage in Menifee CA
Recent work – hand painted sign project:
Recently completed a project for this self-storage facility – they had hand-painted signs from many years before. The owner thought it was time to refresh everything, so when they repainted the building these new painted graphics went in their place. We also got to provide new faces for the lighted sign out front.
Now the facility has a modern, eye catching look. Very happy client, very successful project. Here are photos:
Fishing With Dynamite Restaurant – Manhattan Beach – rustic window lettering
Recently this sign painter had the opportunity to join the team creating the rustic atmosphere at this Manhattan Beach restaurant, just one block from the sand.
The decor is meant to evoke East Coast seafood shacks. The owner, David LeFevre, wanted this prominent window to advertise as well as expand the rustic feel, adding “instant aging” to the decor. For that reason the sign was hand-painted, with brush strokes visible as the sign is viewed from the inside out.
Some projects are just a delight to do – this was one of those.
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