Painters Logo's / Signing your work

[eyeayen]

I've been looking at all the work on here and also in the UK mags for a while now, occasionally you see a mention for the painter in the form of their name but not a link to a website or anything. What I've noticed more than anything else is no one seems to sign their work. I think there was one of Jon's logo's on the SC truck in the RRC recently but I've seen no others.

I think I've seen pics of some of Terry's older stuff with a logo at the top of a windscreen in a touring car but no one else seems to have signed their work ?

Coming from custom painting I used to sign everything, no job went out the door without my logo on it, and if it was a crash helmet for a magazine or for a race team it had bigger logo's in multiple places so I knew it would be included in photographs taken of it.

I appreciate the shells are quite small and space is especially limited on a lot of the tenth buggies and I can't imagine how difficult it is to paint the 18th stuff or anything smaller than that but surely on the tenth, eighth and especially 5th stuff where you'd get most of your repeat work you would do well to sign it.

You can get backwards decals made, they could go in the shell before you started painting or are people just not that worried about it ?

[RoyalCBR]

It surprises me also.

I think some people will think "I don't want some massive logo on the buggy/car/truck!" - but I think something small so that other drivers can see who has done it and get theirs done too.

Cheers, Mark

[jonmiller]

tastefully done is fine and i actually keep meaning to cut a load of masks in order to start adding my rcs to all the shells i do.
there are two sides, one it is my work and if i want to sign it i will do! on the other hand though, someone is paying for a particular scheme and so don't want your name plastered all over it. that's why i say 'tastefully' that doesnt impare the flow of the shell.

[jonmiller]

i also hand out stickers with the shells to give them the option of applying larger logos if they want.

[eyeayen]

Yes the tasteful thing needs to be taken into account with any design, however as I said before I didn't let anything go without me having my logo painted on. Another painter once said to me, don't put it on as a sticker after as it will come off / get taken off. So yes I had a larger area to work with but as the same time decals can be printed tiny and not encroach on the design. It's more difficult with the biggies as there is considerably less space than a touring car.

I still think it's something painters should start to try and actively do, especially if it's just a sticker, it would take less than 5 minutes to put 2 on (one each side) so when photographed / seen everyone knows who did it. Especially with so many pro painters springing up, just to mark out their work. Even just a web address.

In ten years I think only 2 customers challenged the fact I was going to do, I told them the price would increase without it so they agreed and I kept it subtle. The thing is you don't want to make your own design look bad so I think any logo the painter put on themselves would be in keeping with the design.

[mark christopher]

hi John has done me two shells for rrci, one xray tc and one associated b44.1 which has part two in the latest mag. Both have had good visable decals on the rear wings, allways a mention and im sure i put his web address in. If it has been removed ill kick the ed.
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