Signage
The sign above the window was a challenge, I wanted a clean image on the script, but it didn’t work out how I wanted it! I made a low-tack frisket, this was placed on the sign board, the lettering was already cut out, placed exactly where I wanted it, nice and smooth. I painted the lettering in an old gold from Vallejo, left it to dry, peeled the frisket off and away came all of the paint below it including some of the primer, I said a few unprintable words, to the phrase ‘oh dear’, not what I wanted, I’ve never been good at painting letters with a paint brush free hand, so why I choose to do this I will never know, and I couldn’t find any dry rub the size I wanted.
I re-sprayed the top, masking off all of the rest of the building with tin foil and very low tack tape, this was left to dry for a couple of hours, then the mix for the signage was sprayed over the top, I then attempted to paint free hand the café name but as I said I’m no good at free hand letter painting, this was a disaster, so I painted over it, again, then I remembered an article on micro painting, signs and advertising, it showed a picture of two signs being painted one on top of the other, but slightly off set from one another, the top one being worn away by the weather, showing the original one below it. I’ll leave you to judge whether it’s ok or not.
The wooden shutter was painted in the same colours as the wall, all I’ve done is dry brush it with some other tones including adding some Medium Sea Grey to the wall base colour, this gives the wood a washed out look, but still retains some of the natural colours that wood has. I highlighted along the top edges of the slats with V128 German Cam Orange Ochre, and Pale Sand V007, this was done so gently as not to overpower the paint job, I also went across the top of the cornice above the window top and on the top edge of the window sill.