How to Paint Signs and Sho' Cards

by Eric Christian Matthews

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Genres: Art

128 pages, Hardcover

First published April 9, 1920

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Reviews

[David van Arragon · Rating 4 out of 5]

‘Distance lends enchantment’ 🖌️ - Amazing to read a body of work that’s over a century old (1924), but still holds up its relevance for the sign painting craft today. The only thing that’s outdated are the material suppliers of that time who have since vanished, and maybe only some of the materials. The rest is still absolutely spot on and very informative, helpful and inspiring! So good! Will get back to some excerpts, chapters and references for sure, as Matthews advices as well.

[Jeff · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a newish reprint of an old (1920/24) book of signpainting techniques which gives lots of examples of 'clever' old lettering styles and techniques from the golden age of hand-painted signs. A friend gave this book to me last night because recently I have been doing a lot of drawings which include various kinds of hand-lettering as part of the artwork, and thought this book might prove to be inspirational or at least interesting to me. In fact I had been looking for exactly such a book for a while, so it was great timing. It's nice to know these kinds of things are being kept in print in this day and age when even the most humble of art-forms, the lowly comic strip, is lettered via computer!