Signwriting building entrances is generally the street address & number of the building painted onto its walls or entrance doors.
This job had several entrances 8 in total. These are all individual buildings each cotaining sets of flats based in Kensington West London.
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The building entrance signwriting had been present but due to a renovation by a maintainance firm, the original numbers were attempted to be cut round, but the cutting round with the fresh paint stood out far too much & looked a poor quality of finish despite the signwriting originally looking good. Due to this the numbers typeface was replicated as close as could be.
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The masonry was given fresh paint so the signwriting building entrances to be produced. The Layouts were all drawn on paper first & then reliefed onto the masonry so where to paint could be seen & to make sure each were positioned & sized correctly for each recessed roundel ‘porthole’. The entrances are actually quite period looking & so are aimed to be preserved in a way of keeping up with modern life but with as much historic appearence as possible, which is why the signwriting building entrances is hand painted. The lamps give a very nice touch but modernised with writing & type of light bulb.
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Some of the surfaces were a little less ‘restored’ than others. they were all covered in paint but looks to have saved on budget by not sanding the areas smooth. This proved to be more time consuming to signwrite but achievable none the less.
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Each of the entrances took roughly 40 minutes each, so this job actually allowed for a lunch break which in my trade is a rarity! It was quite nice that each of the entrances were in fairly close proximity of each other.
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The typecase was painted using a small specialist signwriter quill & just nice skilled strokes to create each number, so no real shortcuts.
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