Comments on: Signatures

By: Marla baggetta

Marla baggetta — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:20:04 +0000

I can't wait either, Nancy! It should be a great weekend!

By: nancyklos

nancyklos — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 15:27:19 +0000

This is an excellent post Marla, and very timely for me as I am changing the way I sign my work. I am looking forward to your workshop this weekend. I've waited a long time to take one from you…what a treat for me!! See you soon and yes, I would like help with signing!

By: Marla baggetta

Marla baggetta — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 22:46:39 +0000

You're right Brenda! I'm lucky to have a great last name!

By: Nathalie Equall

Nathalie Equall — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 22:15:33 +0000

Awesome post. I can't stand it when people start doing weird things with their signatures, like putting them across the sky of a landscape (yes, I've seen it). I don't understand why anyone would want their signature to be the first thing that the viewer notices. I just find it annoying. There are plenty of people who disagree as demonstrated at a critique group meeting I attended where some of the people were pretty passionate that it was fine to sign with a contrasting color and large flowing script most of the way up the side of a landscape. On the flip side, one of the plein air competitions I've done asked that artists not sign their work. Well, I suppose that for judging it's a nice idea, but not so much afterwards when the buyer wants a signature on a framed pastel in another city 3 hours away from here. I'm with you- mid toned, and in scale with the piece.

By: Diana Hollenbeck

Diana Hollenbeck — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 21:49:07 +0000

Excellent info and perspective. A painter friend of mine's last name was a long Greek name, which he shortened to Gian. Another painter I know adopted a more pseudonymn since her early days of art…three letter first name and three letter last and her large paintings have the first and last name stacked with her smaller pieces only her 3-letter last name. It took me awhile to get to the place where I could use an alias for my creative work.

By: Brenda SK Richardson

Brenda SK Richardson — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 21:38:23 +0000

Marla, you're blessed to have a sort of unique last name. With a last name like "Richardson," signing only the last name doesn't work. There are several hundred "Brenda Richardsons" in the USA and around 50 in Michigan alone. So I usually use "Brenda S.K. Richardson". My favorite is "Brenda S. Kerster Richardson" – uniquely me, but — alas, too long. Any ideas?

By: Maria Bennett Hock

Maria Bennett Hock — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 20:03:49 +0000

good post. I think it is so very important for a signature to be legible. Lots of good info here…thanks!