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October 11, 2019 at 8:21 pm #479046
Pertaining specifically to watercolors, where/with What do you sign your work? I just went to a gallery tonight and for the first time ever, paid attention to signatures because I’m still trying to decide on the best way to sign my own paintings. Many paintings that took up the “entire” paper (aside from where the tape was) were signed in pencil underneath. The signature would most likely be hidden if framed. Others were signed in pencil within the framed area. I don’t think I saw any signed in watercolors or anything other than pencil. I’ve been signing mine in a lower corner with a fineliner slightly darker than the area I’m signing in, just enough to show up, because I can usually hardly see it if I sign in pencil.
I am just curious about what everyone does and why, now that I’ve seen a few variations.
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@leahpaintsOctober 11, 2019 at 8:36 pm #894065Leah, there are several threads about this, I will search for a link
Kaylen Savoie
https://www.savoieartist.com/
At least twice a year,paint something better than you ever painted before.October 11, 2019 at 10:45 pm #894070Leah, there are several threads about this, I will search for a link
Thank you. I thought I might have seen something similar before, but for some reason every time I try to use the search bar I’m prompted to log in again and am never able to search.
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@leahpaintsOctober 12, 2019 at 12:51 am #894066https://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=613306&page=2
https://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1383654
Kaylen Savoie
https://www.savoieartist.com/
At least twice a year,paint something better than you ever painted before.October 12, 2019 at 6:45 am #894071Thanks again! Those are just what I was looking for.
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@leahpaintsOctober 12, 2019 at 11:19 am #894062on the front in the lower right hand corner
It is only on a basis of knowledge that we can become free to compose naturally. -- Bernard Dunstan
blog.jlk.netOctober 12, 2019 at 11:50 am #894063Title, signature and date in bottom margin.
Some folks dislike adding the date. Not me.
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VirgilSling paint,
Virgil Carter
http://www.virgilcarterfineart.com/October 12, 2019 at 12:13 pm #894069My signature are horrible, so I use a stamp.. I also stamp the date on the back..
October 12, 2019 at 1:01 pm #894064Zbukvic Castagnet Pekel school: contrasting color (often cadmium red or orange) in corner with rigger[INDENT]Z full name https://www.outdoorpainter.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/watercolor-plein-air-painting-Joseph-Zbukvic-6.jpg
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P last name in all-caps https://www.coolabahart.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Herman-Pekel-Adelaide-01-Coolabah-Art.png[/INDENT]Sargent school: less obtrusive color, and it looks like a round rather than a rigger[INDENT]https://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/N/N03/N03408_9.jpg
[/INDENT]Turner school: as clear as the rest of the painting[INDENT]https://artsy-media-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/LqSBkvZpSD7RwdjK-5OiYQ%2Fcustom-Custom_Size___j-m-w-turner-snow-storm-steam-boat-off-a-harbour-s-mouth-1842.jpg[/INDENT]Albrecht Dürer school: funny “AD” thingummy, very prevalent (but often hidden somewhere among the details) and often with the date[INDENT]https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/features/slideshows/Durer/hoffman%2C-blue-roller.jpg[/INDENT]Picasso school: first, figure out which of your names to throw out and which to keep (Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso), then don’t abstract it; if someone says, “That doesn’t look like your whole name,” then respond, “It will”; if someone asks, “Did you write that signature,” then respond, “No, you did.”
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[/INDENT]Personally, I have invented a nifty little “CP” thingummy along the lines of Dürer’s, but a bit more à la mode moderne, if I do say so myself. I formulated it with brush work in mind, but I don’t have a handy picture of it as brushed: two opposed half-moon wedgies separated by a vertical swash slash. Here it is in charcoal pencil (near bottom):-----
Certified Closet Management Engineer, Slung Watercolor Society of AmericaOctober 14, 2019 at 3:56 am #894068My signature are horrible, so I use a stamp.. I also stamp the date on the back..
Periodically I go through my stacks of papers to sort the save and the discard sketches, notes and studies. The 2nd-tier stuff gets a quick initial and maybe a date before filing. The 3rd-tier gets a stamp I made from a vinyl eraser. The rest typically goes in the bin and out to the street on Wednesday. Typically they get initialed or signed in the media they were made in. Oils get scratched-in while still wet. Watercolors with a dip-pen. Sketches in pencil or marker. And the stamp is usually watercolor, not ink. The (very) occasional 1st-tier “keeper” gets signed/initialed with an info-card attached to the back including a catalog-number for reference.
I don’t sell my art, but I do occassionally display or enter works. But as an Architect I generate a lot of papers, sketches and “stuff” that need dates for archival and legal purposes…so everything gets the same treatment for provenance-sake. My work-journals typically get partially dismantled as I tear/cut pages out to be filed in folders or 3-rings.
I save an inordinant amout of paper as a result……An established professional artist friend of a close friend died unexpectedly in his 50s leaving his widow with a studio filled with unsigned works…apparently he only signed works after a sale or prior to a delivery. Instead of a comfortable legacy for his widow, no gallery will touch them.
Conversely I got out of a potentially-ruinous litigation since I saved and dated a roll of architectual drawings that everyone-else swore never-existed from one of the other parties 16 years prior.
Radical Fundemunsellist
October 14, 2019 at 8:36 am #894067Ted,, those are some good points, , Nice sketch Cliffton
Kaylen Savoie
https://www.savoieartist.com/
At least twice a year,paint something better than you ever painted before.October 14, 2019 at 10:58 am #894072my initials are j. f. so i join the two to make something that looks like a musical note.. on the lower right corner.
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