The last week has been crazy in our shop as the last minute preparations for a trade show were made. In between those preparations a little progress was made on the restaurant sign.
The first order of business was to clean up the glue lines between the eight layers of sign that has been glued together. I used a die grinder and while I was at it I quickly added a little texture to the edges. Next I did a little shaping on the scroll ends and then spent some time carving the mountain. The die grinder whips through the precision Board pretty quick so a light tough is necessary.
Then it was time for a little sculpting using an epoxy medium. I used this to create the foreground trees on the lower mountain and the rows of plants in the field. Those didn't take long. At this stage the pictorial is pretty bland but it will come alive as the paint goes on.
Stay tuned...
-dan
