doodles & inspirations

hello. im tina and i love to draw letters. this is my little place to showcase my inspiration and my own drawings. enjoy.

Golden West Sign Arts etsy store

our traditional, hand painted sign company now has an etsy store!

CHECK IT OUT!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/GoldenWestSignArts

buy something for your grandma!!

im attempting to teach myself Copperplate Calligraphy…this is one of my practice sheets for today!
im really enjoying it so far…maybe one day i’ll be as good as the wonderful Lila Symons (http://www.dailycalligraphy.com/)  :)

im attempting to teach myself Copperplate Calligraphy…this is one of my practice sheets for today!

im really enjoying it so far…maybe one day i’ll be as good as the wonderful Lila Symons (http://www.dailycalligraphy.com/)  :)

ive been learning the wonderful art of traditional sign painting (with tremendous help from my boyfriend: http://www.flickr.com/photos/madeforglorysigns/) & these are a few little signs i did recently! :)

i am incredibly inspired by the chalk art of dana tanamachi! such lovely lettering!

see more of her work here: http://www.danatanamachi.com/chalk/

im extremely interested in sign painting & have been learning a lot about it lately…

im very inspired by these two videos, they are each about a different variety of sign painting/making.

the first is about an extremely talented artist named david smith, who is a glass gilding & gold leaf sign artist in england.

this one is about a company in NYC called Sky High Murals that does hand-painted advertising, truly amazing!

quick little flyer i did for a friend’s cd release party 

quick little flyer i did for a friend’s cd release party 

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i’ve just found a new love & appreciation for letterheads. an art form that is unfortunately becoming obsolete thanks to the digital age…

check out more of these amazing letterheads on the wonderful blog called Letterheady: http://www.letterheady.com