Pounce???

[54warrior]

I was reading on another thread about painting a billboard with corrugated metal. It can be found here: http://www.signs101.com/forums/showthread.php?132806-How-would-you-install

Someone recommended: pounce, project, grid

What exactly does that mean?

I'm not a sign painter, but I'm curious to understand this process.

Thanks!

 

[J Hill Designs]

I was reading on another thread about painting a billboard with corrugated metal. It can be found here: http://www.signs101.com/forums/showthread.php?132806-How-would-you-install

Someone recommended: pounce, project, grid

What exactly does that mean?

I'm not a sign painter, but I'm curious to understand this process.

Thanks!

pounce:
draw/pen plot design
create 'pounce' pattern with electro pounce or pounce wheel (makes holes in pattern)
use pounce powder (charcoal/talc, like a chalk line) to transfer design to substrate
paint

project:
use overhead projector and draw on substrate following projection

grid:
create grid on scaled drawing
create same grid to-scale on substrate
recreate individual sections following grid

 

[Gino]

I was reading on another thread about painting a billboard with corrugated metal. It can be found here: http://www.signs101.com/forums/showthread.php?132806-How-would-you-install

Someone recommended: pounce, project, grid

What exactly does that mean?

I'm not a sign painter, but I'm curious to understand this process.

Thanks!

Pounce is usually a piece of paper with a series of pin hole sized perforation in it which allows a pounce powder, like plum line chalk, but usually black to pass through onto the surface you need the pattern. Then you can paint in the lines.

Project is usually either an opaque projector or an overhead type and the image is projected onto the substrate and you can either draw the lines in or work while the images is being projected.

Grid is where you take a small maybe 11" x 14" paper of the drawing and make a series of lines criss-crossing, creating a grid like proportional pattern. You make the same criss-cross pattern on the substrate and paint what ever is in the grid onto the substrate, but at a larger scale.

 

[signguy 55]

Pouncing is how Michelangelo painted the Sistine chapel in 4 years. Old Signcraft cartoon had him inventing the pounce wheel at the very end of the project.

Check out the video. Pure genius

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