Introduction to Sign Painting

Overview

“To start working we do not need much: paper and pencil, some drawing tools; water-based paint such as acrylic or tempera and kraft paper or newsprint. Later we will need a stitch marker, chalk or chalk, blue ribbon and sandpaper. Perhaps the most important tool is the brush, here I will talk about different types of brush used in the labeling and what brush to use to begin to dirty our hands.”

In this video lesson Miguel Reyes addresses the topic: Description of materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Sign Painting. Learn the basic principles of signage with brushes.

Partial transcription of the video

“[Music] In this lesson I am going to present the materials that we are going to use. Let's start with paper and pencil to sketch. In this course any type of pencil can work for us. For our template we're going to use a Sharpie marker and a squad. Other materials that we will use for the process of sketching are a chalk or chalk, a white pencil and a special tool that is a stitch marker, we can find anywhere where they sell materials for making. This tool is going to work to be able to drill our sketch and be able to transfer it to our final piece. For the same process also we are going to n...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Sign Painting

• Level: Beginner
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• 1851 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (2h 6m)
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  Calligraphy & Typography

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  Lettering