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John Mccloskey

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This topic has no doubt been discussed before but I can't find it on the forum. What's the best way to sign an oil painting? The obvious answer is probably using a fine brush and thinned oil paint but I do find that method difficult to control. Are there markers available these days? Any advice welcome.

Tessa Gwynne

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Hi John, I use oils and normally sign if I do, with a very fine brush when the rest of the painting is dry. Not everyone seems to sign these days. I did recently watch a dvd of Pete The Street (Brown) and he signed on a wet area or paint using the handle end of the brush which looked quite neat.

Peter Davison

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I think you have identified the most common method i.e. using a fine brush and thinned paint on a dry surface. It sometimes takes a bit of practice to get it right but I find that using an old fine round brush gets the best results.
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Thinned paint, fine brush. Or my method, which is to conceal a rat somewhere in the picture................. doesn't have to be a rat; but rats are good!

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Alan Bickley

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There’s a link embedded into this comment! It leads to a commercial sales site - this is not allowed and not welcome on here! You posted another one yesterday also, I’ve reported both!

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Robert Jones, NAPA

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I've removed both comments, but not (yet) banned the member.  I'm afraid he knows quite well that commercial promotion shouldn't be permitted here, otherwise he wouldn't have embedded links.  However, on the basis of first offence one more chance, I'll content myself with remarking that if you want to advertise your wares - if yours is a fully-fledged commercial website, rather than your having an individual item for sale - then you should support this site by PAYING for your advertising.  

Alan Bickley

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Thanks Robert, I expect he’ll be back at some point, let’s see...