tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14672405.post4472657173359625798..comments2023-10-30T13:27:44.690-04:00Comments on Painting My World: From the Archives: How to Sign a Pastel PaintingKarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17239336384191511625noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14672405.post-38997785259339083902016-05-28T16:29:43.442-04:002016-05-28T16:29:43.442-04:00Yours is very cool and has one thing in common wit...Yours is very cool and has one thing in common with mine - it's made up of short straight lines. That makes it easier to do small and to use in other mediums. It can be tapped onto an oil painting with a small flat brush used on end. It can be carved into stone or wood or pottery easily. It can be scraped out of oil pastel or other sgraffito mediums.<br /><br />My RAS was designed to be runic as I had the vague ambition to carve wood or soapstone someday. It works really well for pastels though and brushes on easily. I use the same line for the lower right stroke of the R and the slanted crossbar of the A so have something like your cool legible E. That binds all three initials together like a bindrune when one side of the A is also part of the zigzag S.<br /><br />I had a lot of curves in mine but blocked them into angles to get that effect. It's easy to create a stamp or print it and I am planning to carve it in a soapstone ink stamp for sumi-e painting. <br /><br />Writing out my name in cursive was cool back when I did ink drawing but anything that line width is too great turned it into Initial-Squiggle so fast. Monograms are very effective and become a cool little decorative block that I sometimes hide and sometimes make prominent depending on the piece.robertsloan2arthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02598847116529877475noreply@blogger.com