I’m new to watercolor and stumbled upon your video because I wanted to know how to sign a painting. But I found myself gazing in awe at your artwork instead, having forgotten about my desire to sign my painting.
I would like to share ,one way if not sure where to place the signature,use aa piece of acetate with a permanent marker sign, that can be moved around the painting to find a place ,as its see thru.
I've always hated the idea of signing my artwork in the front but I've been having so many requests to sign I can't resist anymore. You're video had great tips on how to do this properly, thank you!
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Thank you, I have always hated signing with a brush, I'm left handed and usually mess it up. Pushing a brush just don't work, I've tried turning the page and kind of signing downwards but that ends up nothing like my normal signature. I do like your idea of signing in pencil then wetting it - or scribing into wet wash (If i can remember to do it while still wet).
You do such beautiful work, are the sheets you painted on already gessoed, and if so are they paper or canvas sheets? I plan to do a similar scene of row houses but with sail boats in front at a marina, it will be from either Italy or France, also some outdoor countryside scenes with a table filled with wine and food in the foreground- also from Italy or France! 😃🌷
Hi, I just started painting using canvas’. What kind of paper do you paint on? Ive been using acrylic. Do you put your paintings in a frame? Thank you for the signature options.
The wet graphite method didn't work at all (or either I have a really good eraser) but scratching the wet watercolour wash is nice! I'll be doing that for my next pieces. Thank you.
I painted a giraffe from the neck up and left the background white. Where would you recommend I put my signature. Would you camouflage it in the neck shadows bottom right?
I've come to find that pencil fades too much. I use either black or white depending on the color of the picture. my question is is that where is the best place on a portrait to sign
Thank you for sharing. However, I am confused, at the beginning if you sign your painting with anything else other than the painting, it’s classed as mixed media. Then you go on to show how to sign your names in mixed media. Did I miss something.
I suffer from tremors because of a couple of the meds I take. I tried signing an acrylic painting this morning with a #1 brush and it was a dismal failure. How can I come up with a way to sign that will be legible when I'm done? Suggestions?
Why is it that when signing your name in ink the painting becomes mixed media but signing your name in graphite does not? Graphite is every bit as viable an art medium as is ink; so, I fail to understand why one is OK and the other is not. Thank you for this video.
Great questions. Graphite has been excepted in the watercolor world since the beginning. You can draw with graphite your subjects and paint watercolor on top and this has always been considered ok in watercolor paintings. As soon as you use a pen, it is ink and considered a mixed media. Thanks for asking and I hope this helps.!
Thank you. Its funny b/c most shows consider my work watercolor even though my original drawing & my signature are in ink. I almost always call my work mixed media, and shows to a one tell me to just say watercolor. (As long as I'm in the show making money, they can call it peanut brittle if they like.) But it is important detail for entering contests.
That was a Daniel Smith masking with applicator. We liked it for a while, but it clog up too much for me to continue using it. I like the Liquid Frisket Masking Fluid the best and adding into some sort of applicator is what I'm playing with now. There are some long metal tipped applicators with a cover that has a little wire that is supposed to self-clean. Its always a challenge to not have them clog up.
At the very beginning of your video, you mentioned that you don’t like to date your paintings on the front, then you did just that on the ones you painted on location.
With all due respect, I don't really think it's wise to put one's regular signature on artworks. I wouldn't really want my personal signature freely available for everyone.
WHAT???? How many paintings have you sold? And how is someone going to know WHO painted it, if you don't Sign it??? Now, with that being said... I did this... My signature was "Desperado" ... Beautiful Signature... and guess what happened... I had a huge painting stollen and because I had not "Copy written" my Signature... I could not prove that it was my painting... The only thing that saved me was I had been in the newspaper.. and it had stated who I was, that I painted "Desperado" People BUY because of a NAME... more than the ART.
"Signing a painting" doesn't necessarily mean signing your legal signature. Many artists have an "art signature" they reserve just for their art. They might not look the same at all.
I agree, i would sign my name differently than the way i sign my checks. It isnt a matter of pride in my work, its a matter of identity theft and my check signature being all over my art that i obviously want to display lol.
