This Diary was started in January 2005 for showing our hand painted house plaques.- We update these pages on an ongoing basis with photos of recently completed custom painted house signs
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Coach House Sign
Our customer asked for a 14.5 inch by 10 inch oval depicting a coach and horses in a landscape. The coach shown is an open topped Landau coach - the kind that gentry travelled in during sunny weather. This House Address sign was painted by Ivan Brenton
Address Plaque with spring flowers design
Our customer requested a 14.5 inch by 10 inch oval with lots of spring flowers hand painted in the centre. Rosemary Hitchman created this lovely collection of tulips, bluebells, daffodills, primroses, viola and forget-me-nots nicely ballanced within the confines of the text .
House Name Sign with wren pictorial
Our customer asked us to create a 10.25 inch by 8.25 inch classic oval house sign with a wren bird in the centre surrounded by red berries. The font is called Bernhart Modern. Painted by Ivan Brenton
Saturday, October 20, 2007
House Signs depicting Carp
Our customer asked us to paint a pictorial of two carp swimming underwater. This is quite a difficult task to paint the fish through water giving a realistic effect.Painted by house sign artist Ivan Brenton. Click on the house sign to view it in greater detail.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
House Name Plate with kingfisher, Heron and River
Our customer requested a house sign showing a kingfisher in the foreground with a heron near the far bank in a river. Painted by Rosemary Hitchman. The base plaque used for this river sceene measures 14.5 inches by 10 inches. - Click on the sign to view the pictorial on greater detail
House Sign depicting olives
Our customer who lives in Italy asked us to paint a 14.5 inch by 10 inch classic oval with a pictorial of an olive branch showing unripw and ripe olives. The font is called Century Schoolbook. Painted By Ivan Brenton
House Address Sign with Scottie Dog
Our customer saw a similar house address plaque we made about a year agon on this blog and asked us to create one for him. Painted by House Sign artist Ivan Brenton
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
House Sign with Gerberea Flowers
This sign was commissioned by a customer who has recently married. The flowers where the design the couple had on their wedding stationary. Painted on a Large 2 line rustic rectangle. Artist - Rosemary Hitchman
House Plaque with golden flowers
Our customer located in the USA asked for this 14.5 inch by 10 inch oval with a theme of gold/yellow french marigolds as the main flowers. This sign was also given a gold rim. Painted by Rosemary Hitchman.
House Number Plate with Scottie Dog
Our customer asked for a medium classic oval with just the house number and a white scotish highland terrier painted on the sign. The font is called Tiffany bold
House Sign depicting two goldfinches
Our customer asked for a house sign showing two British goldfinch birds sitting on thistles. - American goldfinches are coloured differently. Painted by Ivan Brenton.
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You won't see all house sign designs we make here as most of the house signs made by us are standard house names or house numbers without custom painted pictorials - you can view all our STANDARD HOUSE SIGNS at our home websites http://www.yoursigns.co.uk/ or our house sign shop to buy one.
You won't see all house sign designs we make here as most of the house signs made by us are standard house names or house numbers without custom painted pictorials - you can view all our STANDARD HOUSE SIGNS at our home websites http://www.yoursigns.co.uk/ or our house sign shop to buy one.