Welcome our newest member: Glenn...

[Stanton]

We're not as dumb as you look:Big Laugh :Welcome:

I concur. Nobody is as dumb as I look. :Big Laugh
I have a ZZ-top style beard, all in streaky grey, and a 20" pony tail, also peppery grey.

I look homeless.
I wear shorts year round.

I always wear a fine pair of home-made sandals to important business meetings.
Nothing makes one more comfortable than hobbie-built skids.

Everyone has a story.
I love sharing stories.

You girls and guys are awesome.
The further I dig into the archives, the more I respect all of you.


-Stanton . . . (feel free to call me Glenn, not Stannie)

 

[Stanton]

Howdy, Glenn! Welcome from the South!

Banjo playin' South?
I pluck the banjo, it's like guitar, (which I do to entertain myself, only), except banjo hurts my fingers.

(Send me a PM, please.)

a warm welcome from sunny so cal (not quite as south as you)
-gg

Don't get no further South than here. I can see Tijuana from my back porch.
(PM me)

Welcome! A few of us here STARTED with "Quills'' not "Keyboards

Gerber 4-B keyboard? You know, right?

(would love a PM)

Quill guy here too. Circa 1970.
Welcome aboard, Glenn

So you have fitches and a basic human fear of heights? Like me?

(invitation to exchange PM's)

Glenn, welcome to the forum. As one of the younger guys who has yet to try anything hand-painted (though I would love to learn), I look forward to your posts.

It takes years of serious dedicated practice to do brush work with confidence.
It is all about confidently putting hair to substrate.

A starter kit is about $120. That is a small fist full of quills and a bunch of junk you have not thought of..
You will need paraffin oil to keep your brush investment in good condition and so many more things.

Toothpicks. brass wire-brushes, razor blades and a string level.

You old monkeys know.what I am talking about.
A string level, center zero ruler, basic fraction-to-decimal math (in your head).

Some 3" x 5" index card stock to origami little paint tray forms.
Again, some of you know exactly what I am describing.

My most expensive hair tool is a Russian Red Hair Sable pin-striping sworde. $62.00 in 1985.
(I didn't actually pay for it myself, paperwork shuffle kinda thing.)

This and more I will be more than happy to share with you.

Seriously, I am at a point I need to start giving knowledge away, fast.
I am "only" 52, but, this art is fading exponentially fast.

I have a few treasured brushes my mentor handed over to me that are now well over 70 years old.

I used them at first, but, no more. They are now on display on the wall.
Not joking. I have a shrine full of old timer tools.

Frank Job was my mentor. He grew up in Jersey in the early 1920's.
He actually knew Manny, Moe and Jack. The 'Pep Boys'. They owned a 'Filling Station'

I have stories I want to share.

Sooooo worth the effort. It will give you such a head above the others,
design wise, font intelligence, again... CONFIDENCE.

Nothing makes you learn kerning like signwriting.

I started out with India ink and 'Ball' brand nibs when I was in fifth grade.
So much newsprint paper in the trash. I mean a huge trash load of learning.
More books of newsprint than I can remember.

Learned a dozen hands or so. Letter styles, fonts, they were called 'hands' back then.

There are only a few shapes you need to MASTER for basic letterforms.

The 'C', 'D' and, 'O' shapes are the key. Everything else is a variation or basic down stroke.
There are tricks.

(PM me, seriously, I want to share knowledge.)

Welcome to a great forum Glenn. Im afraid my quills stay in my lettering kit these days (along with my pounce bag and linseed oil). Great to see another old timey face!

I am not sure I like your "old timey face" reference.

You are the kind of dude that is going to make this fun.

(PM me, wall dog. )


The rest of my new friends... I LOVE PM's !!!


: LoveYouIcon :

-Glenn


Like I told Fred... this site is AWESOME !!!


Anyone want my mother's eMail address? Wanna tell on me?
(that is a joke you all know)

 

[skyhigh]

Welcome Glenn.

I looked up Imp.Beach on google maps (satellite view). I'd have to say, you could possibly win for the most number of houses squeezed into every square mile. I got claustrophobic just looking at the map.

What can I say......its 1am, and I can't sleep.

 

[Stanton]

Welcome Glenn.

I looked up Imp.Beach on google maps (satellite view). I'd have to say, you could possibly win for the most number of houses squeezed into every square mile. I got claustrophobic just looking at the map.

What can I say......its 1am, and I can't sleep.

It's not so bad at ground level.

Look up 779 Corvina Street.
I live to fish and I wind up living on a street named for a shallow water surf fish.
Go figure.

Four and a half easy blocks from the tossy blue waves of the Pacific Ocean.

My life fails to suck.

Where are you? I don't wanna dis on ice and snow just yet.

He he he, I am just like this in person. :Big Laugh


-Glenn

 

[skyhigh]

I don't wanna dis on ice and snow just yet.


-Glenn

What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger.

Besides, how can you appreciate the warm sunny weather DAY AFTER DAY AFTER DAY (boring), when you don't have the variety of the seasons to compare it to???

Pennsylvania is paradise on earth.

 

[knucklehead]

Hey Glenn, this is Mike, from the Deer Capital of Georgia.

Still have some of my quills, and stripers from back in the day. I was fair at lettering, then crushed my wrist, went from fair, to legible. Most of my hand painting now, is trying to get the correct shade of yellow, on the kitchen walls. I don't think there is such a thing, no matter 'who' picks the paint color.

 

[Stanton]

What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger.

Besides, how can you appreciate the warm sunny weather DAY AFTER DAY AFTER DAY (boring), when you don't have the variety of the seasons to compare it to???

Pennsylvania is paradise on earth.

Home is always the best place on Earth, until you spend a week in San Diego.

There is 3" of snow in the mountains an hour East of here at 6000+ feet. Does that count for anything?

San Diego only gets an average 8" of rain per year.
0.375" of precipitation leads the local news.
It is an absolute disaster.

If our roads ever iced up, it would wipe out half the population.

Yes, we are weak. I will admit that. :Big Laugh

 

[Stanton]

...Most of my hand painting now, is trying to get the correct shade of yellow, on the kitchen walls. I don't think there is such a thing, no matter 'who' picks the paint color.

Love means never having to tell her she picked the wrong color. :Big Laugh

I am going to chuckle about your post all day.

 

[limacchina]

Hello and a warm welcome

 

[Jillbeans]

Hello from Pennsylvania. I'm in my 28th year, and I started out using craft brushes from the hardware store before I discovered that there was such a thing as a real sign painter's brush.

I've branched out to cut vynull but I still paint. Getting more into the design aspect of things at this stage.
Love...Jill