Programme:
Friday 26th October- arrive whenever you like-(some will be arriving the afternoon before) (All sections start at the designated time, and continue for as long as participants require)
9.30-10.00 am Ice-breaker billy-tea and damper
10.00 start on various community projects inc. the Baartz shed gable
10.00 carving Multipanel / airbrushed quick faux marbelling panels / airbrushing starts
11.00 distressed signs (fake antiques)
12.30 Lunch. (Return to projects any time) / sign the attendees board
2.00 glass chipping (or glue-chip glass work) / screen-print the shirts for the meet
3.00 pin-striping a drover's waggon wheel / chalkboard art / start the bar fridge decoration
4.00 oil-marbelling panels (done like old-fashioned book-plates)
5.00 digital flames in Photoshop- a "how-to"
6.30-8.00 Dinner, also sign-for and collect your shirts
8.00 evening live music/jamming/continue with indoor panels and projects if you wish
Saturday 27th October
7-8 am Breakfast (All sections start at the designated time, and are ongoing)
8.30 start hot-rod bonnet panels / start or continue community projects / airbrushing / bar fridge
9.30 oil-marbelling panels again / realistic flames airbrushing
10.30 smokoh / multipanel carving / glue-chip glass
11.30 pinstriping waggon wheel / chalkboard art
12.20 GROUP PHOTO so it can go on the comemmorative teatowel
12.30 Lunch (Return to projects any time)/ sign the attendees board if you haven't done so.
1.30 Calligraphy / faux antique signs
2.30 dual-striper pinstriping demo
3.30 basic old-fashioned scrollwork/ airbrushed faux marbelling
rest of afternoon- continue with projects, or taker a guided tour of the complex
6.30 Evening Dinner, presentation of goodies bags and SOME prizes and awards & decide on next year's venue
8.00 evening live music/jamming/continue with indoor panels and projects if you wish
Sunday 28th October
7-8 am Breakfast (All sections start at the designated time, and are ongoing)
9.00 slate carving / calligraphy /community projects / airbrushing
many people will be 'doing their own thing'too- feel free to ask for help if you'd like to try it.
10 am screen-print the comemorative teatowels
12.00 get all panels together for voting
12.30 Lunch, announce panel voting winners (best...etc) draw raffles,
1.30 Pinstriping Racetrack / and continue with projects, finish & pack-up at your convenience
Please check back here for future more specific updates, but the 'long weekend' kicks off on Friday morning, the 26th October 2007.
Projects will begin with a 'sheepish' theme, as well as other activities. There is a wall gable, signwritten by the late Doug Bunker in 1980, which has faded out, to be repainted, pictured below, so keen 'walldogs' (to use an american term) will be working on that.
Airbrushers will be warming up the air, and for those who'd like to learn glass chipping, we'll have a few different projects from which to select- past letterheads events have had an event logo to be done in glass, and many attendees will attest they haven't finished a few of them! We will have some simpler, easier to complete glass projects prepared for the 'less confident' amongst us! We have had a quantity of silver leaf donated to us to use on some of the projects- about 1 kg- so there'll be some good things soming from that!
Billy tea and damper is the order of the day for morning and afternoon tea, with an urn on the go, and buffet lunches and dinners. Breakfast will be down at the cookhouse at the shearers' quarters. Saturday night's dinner will be a bit more special.
Making fake antique signs, or to use the proper term 'faux' pronounced 'fo' will be among the projects, and wood graining, and marbelling wil be covered. There are numerous established 'quick' marbelling methods , but we'll also show you how to do the old fashioned oil marbelling like what is done in old book plates. Those panels can then be 'alphabetised' for a competition to do an attractive panel with the alphabet on it, or used for any custom project you choose. Something like that is below:
An old drover's waggon which was rebuilt in 1977, and striped and scrolled by an old coachpainter named Ben Hall, who was well into his 80s then, is still in good order, but the wheels need repainting, so that will have been done, and the striping of them will be a demonstration that will last a while- there's about 1000 feet of lines needed!
Various other workshops will start on Saturday, and there will be many seasoned letterheads at hand to help with demonstrations, such as airbrushing portraits as well as realistic flames, carving slate and timber, basic traditional scrolling demos, and the comemmorative polo shirts will be screen printed as an index print- this project is for those who'd like to learn how it is done- and a comemmorative tea-towel will be screenprinted as a halftone design also.
There will be the usual contests and prizes for the fanciest word "Letterheads", the best rendition of the letterheads meet logo elements, (downloadable here), best alphabet panel, best airbrushed panel, name that font, the refrigerator raffle, furthest travelled, first to register, and more, as well as a goodies bag from the sponsors. Last year's raffled bar fridge is below:
Some airbrushed panels from the 2005 meet - expect to see more of the same and better!
Here are a couple of old sheep-themed signs, set to be made into big murals on the weekend:
If you have some ideas of projects that we could do, or demonstrations you wouldn't mind helping us with, please feel free to get in touch- the more the merrier! Many more things will happen than just the few listed here!
The weekend will wind up with the pinstripe racetrack attempts on Sunday just after lunch.
Contact ian@traditionalsigns.com if you feel you'd like to contribute in some way!
Here are two pictures of mannequins- the one on the left was airbrushed by Mike Learn from USA, and is shown here with his permission, the one on the right was striped by Rollie Guertin from Canada, and is displayed with his permission- we will have a large number of mannequins available as 'practise panels' for anyone wanting to try to body paint, airbrush or stripe one during the weekend, but they must be pre-ordered at the time of your registration, and you get to keep them afterwards!
P.S. As the day draws nearer, we'll have an eps or ai file of one variation of the logo for download from here.
Mack brushes have provided us with one unique and rare dual striper brush, to be used as a prize for one of our striping competitions.
It is pictured here :
and will be treasured trophy for whomever wins it! I have used one, and as
far as I'm concerned, they're not a bad unit at all- definitely having a place
in the 'arsenal'! It places a pair of stripes a neat 1/2 inch apart, once
you get the hang of driving and steering it around corners, and how to handle
it when one line needs to finish before the other!
A 'how-to' of easy digital flames made in photoshop will be demonstrated, too:
Other prizes for various competitions over the weekend will include some great books on old Australian Signs, some great new books on striping, a book on Von Dutch, and more...!
