I'm so very sorry you had to sell your family's park. I had my partner fly Sydney, Australia to England to do your five day course. I'm retired and taught both here in Sydney and in the USA. I so loved the style of you works and the level of your painting skills. I do miss teaching, as i miss the interaction with my students, and to this day I get calls asking me small technical questions, and i still service equipment for one importer, as I've known him for over 40 years. The main difference is I limited my Air Brush classes to 6 people and had the students do the identical projects so we were all on the same page.... Fiona was one of my students and like you I ended up getting her to work for me, and 30 years later she owns and has expanded the course. Kind Regards ... Ken (They call me Airbrush Ken as I did work for Paasche back in the late 60's and early 70's.... Thanks Joby... I only wish I was able to go with her to see you in action... side note>> still own some "French Quills" and "Mack" brushes from the 60's... I am old ... LOL
Awesome Video.... Good job Joby! My brother did your course and was truly inspired. He is in this video too :) Lovely to see our showmen traditions and skills being passed on..
i would soooo love to take his course. Other folks like the thought of going to Vegas, or the tropics to lie in the sun, I would like to do things like this.
When all the vinyl fades and peels people will specify hand lettering once again. It will all come in a circle. Hand lettering is certainly not dead now either.
hi joby my names is john francis an I live at Woodstock Oxfordshire and I have seen your signwriting course on you tube and I find it very inspiring as im a self employed cycle mechanic myself and I also worked on the fairground some years ago with Michael Jennings from barwell leicestershire and I like to do signwriting on my pushbikes that I build from scrap and I also like to pinstripe pushbikes and your signwriting courses appeal to me a great deal so that I could get better at my own signwriting by watching your signwriting on here and I find that by doing my own signwriting and pinstriping is time consuming but when you see what you have achieved when the signwriting and pinstriping is done it appeals to me even more to try and improve on what I do and by watching your signwriting course on here it,s helping me to to get much better at what I do
I was also a sign painter for over 40 years and the digital printers and cutters have made the hand lettering obsolete. The folks who seem to be making money are the people selling sign painting courses. If there were any money to be made in sign painting I would still be doing it.
I've done hand-painted work for 38 years all over the US, gold-leaf and wall graphics, carved and sandblasted from northern Michigan to Seattle, Washington. If you are experienced and talented enough and have a passion for signwriting it does not matter, you can do the work anywhere.
When I first started working in graphic design late 70s early 80s EVERYTHING was hand done. The logos hand drawn with pens and the dreaded leteraset was our apple macs😅I'd love to to this course closest I came to it was flash lettering on daygo paper for shop signs. I advanced to a shop sign for relate marriage guidance shop😅as I'm too ill to attend this amazing course I'm going to buy the book. Goal is to do grandkids initial letters for their walls.
Hi Sonia, we will have courses later on in the year as well if you'd like to attend! Check out our website www.carterssteamfair.co.uk/ Let us know if you enjoy the book, we love to hear feedback on it :)
i really love your letter shapes and brush strokes. they are fantastic, but i think there are a lot of letters that are way too close to the edge of the sign. (and in one case you even painted a letter over the boarder). i was taught that the layout and the correct spacing between letters and the edge of the signboard is whats most important. its so great that you are teaching and keeping the passion alive in our vanishing trade. (i started 37 years ago and im still swinging the brush as well). good luck to you mate! best wishes
Your handiwork looks great. Bro I am a Bangladeshi I have 10 years of experience as a sign writer. I am in 3D. neon sign letter sign I can work on painting. Can I work in America, can I do any writing work by hand. Can you help me? I will be happy if you tell me
Always following up from kenya ...my question is, does it mean , an artist who uses stencil to copy n paste his art isn't so real as the hand drawn one? My art teacher used to warn me about using stencils but only later to realize he have been using it all along, somehow also found myself , feeling like i should always take theshortcut for my personal jobs but ave never felt proud of it nomater how good the art is...
I love this video.. It is great... but please NOTE... Even tho the music is beautiful, please leave it out next time. The background music made it hard to hear and understand you. But I do love your video. Thank you for sharing this video
I'm so very sorry you had to sell your family's park. I had my partner fly Sydney, Australia to England to do your five day course. I'm retired and taught both here in Sydney and in the USA. I so loved the style of you works and the level of your painting skills.
I do miss teaching, as i miss the interaction with my students, and to this day I get calls asking me small technical questions, and i still service equipment for one importer, as I've known him for over 40 years. The main difference is I limited my Air Brush classes to 6 people and had the students do the identical projects so we were all on the same page.... Fiona was one of my students and like you I ended up getting her to work for me, and 30 years later she owns and has expanded the course.
Kind Regards ... Ken (They call me Airbrush Ken as I did work for Paasche back in the late 60's and early 70's.... Thanks Joby...
I only wish I was able to go with her to see you in action... side note>> still own some "French Quills" and "Mack" brushes from the 60's... I am old ... LOL
Awesome Video.... Good job Joby! My brother did your course and was truly inspired. He is in this video too :) Lovely to see our showmen traditions and skills being passed on..
i would soooo love to take his course. Other folks like the thought of going to Vegas, or the tropics to lie in the sun, I would like to do things like this.
Im 53 and just starting now, have always had a thing for it hopefully I have not left it too late.
When all the vinyl fades and peels people will specify hand lettering once again. It will all come in a circle. Hand lettering is certainly not dead now either.
Awesome effort to revive the skill. Hats off to you.
Great video Joby, lovely way of teaching well done.
Straight up awesomeness!
hi joby my names is john francis an I live at Woodstock Oxfordshire and I have seen your signwriting course on you tube and I find it very inspiring as im a self employed cycle mechanic myself and I also worked on the fairground some years ago with Michael Jennings from barwell leicestershire and I like to do signwriting on my pushbikes that I build from scrap and I also like to pinstripe pushbikes and your signwriting courses appeal to me a great deal so that I could get better at my own signwriting by watching your signwriting on here and I find that by doing my own signwriting and pinstriping is time consuming but when you see what you have achieved when the signwriting and pinstriping is done it appeals to me even more to try and improve on what I do and by watching your signwriting course on here it,s helping me to to get much better at what I do
LOL - thought I was clicking on a "songwriting" course. But this is great too.
I was a sign writer over 50 years ago. it certainly is a lost art! Digital printing made it a lot easier so everyone now is a sign maker.
I was also a sign painter for over 40 years and the digital printers and cutters have made the hand lettering obsolete. The folks who seem to be making money are the people selling sign painting courses. If there were any money to be made in sign painting I would still be doing it.
Come on Joby. Give us some more to see.
I've done hand-painted work for 38 years all over the US, gold-leaf and wall graphics, carved and sandblasted from northern Michigan to Seattle, Washington.
If you are experienced and talented enough and have a passion for signwriting it does not matter, you can do the work anywhere.
hi can I say I love your fair and the art work so beautiful
When I first started working in graphic design late 70s early 80s EVERYTHING was hand done. The logos hand drawn with pens and the dreaded leteraset was our apple macs😅I'd love to to this course closest I came to it was flash lettering on daygo paper for shop signs. I advanced to a shop sign for relate marriage guidance shop😅as I'm too ill to attend this amazing course I'm going to buy the book. Goal is to do grandkids initial letters for their walls.
Hi Sonia, we will have courses later on in the year as well if you'd like to attend! Check out our website www.carterssteamfair.co.uk/ Let us know if you enjoy the book, we love to hear feedback on it :)
Good stuff very good many thanks
remarkable
nice sign writing I've been doing it for 40 years never a day without a job ,but now all changed cut buy computers, still do it when asked 😀😃
loved your fair , and would love to come and take part in a course , will be in touch
i really love your letter shapes and brush strokes. they are fantastic, but i think there are a lot of letters that are way too close to the edge of the sign. (and in one case you even painted a letter over the boarder). i was taught that the layout and the correct spacing between letters and the edge of the signboard is whats most important.
its so great that you are teaching and keeping the passion alive in our vanishing trade. (i started 37 years ago and im still swinging the brush as well). good luck to you mate! best wishes
Would love to do a course one day
Your handiwork looks great. Bro I am a Bangladeshi I have 10 years of experience as a sign writer. I am in 3D. neon sign letter sign I can work on painting. Can I work in America, can I do any writing work by hand. Can you help me? I will be happy if you tell me
I swear I seen you on American Pickers or on TV, you are in my conciousness somewhere.
Always following up from kenya ...my question is, does it mean , an artist who uses stencil to copy n paste his art isn't so real as the hand drawn one? My art teacher used to warn me about using stencils but only later to realize he have been using it all along, somehow also found myself , feeling like i should always take theshortcut for my personal jobs but ave never felt proud of it nomater how good the art is...
I love this video.. It is great...
but please NOTE...
Even tho the music is beautiful, please leave it out next time.
The background music made it hard to hear and understand you.
But I do love your video.
Thank you for sharing this video
Pritchard would pay a fortune for your students work :D
Is this course still available
Yes, please follow this link : jobycarter.com/courses/five-day-intensive-signwriting-course/
what if you made a mistake on a job
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When is the class?