We've covered where to find your wood, supplies, making signs with your own or pre-made stencils, and making signs with stickers.
Today, I'm going to quickly cover free-handing signs, since this is pretty self-explanatory!
Here's a couple signs I've done free handed
Yes, these signs look sort of rudimentary, but that's the point! It looks like someone threw up a sign to sell their fresh eggs or to point you to their house on the lake!
I did these on very rough fence boards.
I painted them with an oops stain, even though the color of the boards was already pretty similar to this....I just wanted them to look a bit more weathered.
Then I sketched/spaced out the letters with pencil, and then just went for it with a thin brush, and some slightly thinned paint.
If you hate it, you can always paint back over with your base color!\
Honestly, these look a lot better in person than in the pics, in my opinion! They also sort of look like chalk signs! I even had someone at a sale worry that their son was going to erase the Lake House sign when he picked it up!
Personally, I think I have terrible handwriting (I even cried in 3rd grade when I got my first B ever in handwriting class!! Ha!), and yet even I was brave enough to give free-handing a go!!
I'm all about learning different techniques, and sometimes the most basic even works out!
I'd love to see if you have ever given free-handing a sign a go!! Post a link in the comments!
Check out all the other posts in my 31 day series on making signs.
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