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Sign Painting
Mike Meyer & Friends
Laurence King 2021
ISBN 9781786276926
Sign Painting opens with a detailed breakdown of
all the key tools and materials that the sign painter
needs. This demystifies much of the confusing
terminology that gets thrown around in the trade,
and differentiates between working with oil- and
water-based paints.
Veteran sign painter Mike Meyer offers numerous
top tips throughout the book, including efficiency
‘hacks’, paint storage advice, uses for knackered
old brushes, and more. To close, there is a
detailed glossary, list of suppliers around the
world, and further reading suggestions.
The book then moves on to the various
techniques that sign painters need in their
work. This includes advice on a wide variety of
substrates (surfaces) that signs can be painted
on, as well as approaches to setting out signs
and lettering. It then tackles the fundamentals
of working with the brush.
The final part of the book is a collection of over
40 alphabets from sign painters and lettering
artists around the world. Presented as doublepage spreads, these should inspire new and old
hands alike.
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