Joby Carters 5 day intensive signwriting courses
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Mon 29 Apr – Fri 3 May 2024
Location
Carters Steam Fair Yard, White Waltham, Maidenhead
Price
£725 (including VAT, materials, lunches and hot drinks)
What will you learn on the course?
You’ll learn the basics of traditional signwriting, from layout and design, to shading, lining and brushwork, and you’ll have your own painted sign (and new-found skills) to take home with you at the end of the week. All students will also take home a copy of Joby Carter’s book, Signwriting Tips, Tricks and Inspiration worth £25.
The workshops have space for 15 people and all materials are provided for the duration of the course, except for gold leaf which is available at cost price if you would like to add it to your design.
Please wear old clothes that you don’t care about – you will get painty and sturdy footwear with closed toes!
Lunch and hot drinks are also provided. You have the opportunity to buy your own equipment at the end of the week.
Please note these courses are very popular and only available at selected times throughout the year. With just 15 places available, we work on a first-come, first-served basis. To secure your place you need to book and pay the full fee.
Click here for our Refunds Policy.
Where is the course?
The courses are held in Joby’s paintshop at the Carters Steam Fair Yard, in White Waltham near Maidenhead.
Download our course factsheet (PDF) for more information on course timings, where to stay, parking and how to find us.
Video: Watch Joby Carter, course leader talk about the art of traditional signwriting.
21st Century Victorian from Adrian Harrison on Vimeo.
Apply for funding for your course
Signwriting, gilding, fairground art and coach painting are heritage skills and some organisations offer funding to those interested in learning these traditional skills.
We encourage you to research funding opportunities with QEST, Heritage Crafts, Lettering Arts Trust and the Crafts Council.
What Our Students Say:
The course was very helpful and informative, with a fantastic paint shop to work in- a really lively environment with lots of interesting stuff going on around you. Joby was absolutely fantastic, as was the whole yard with it’s legion of painters going about their work.
I could not recommend this highly enough and a massive thankyou to everybody who made it such a worthwhile experience. You’ll learn a lot in a relatively short space of time, have good opportunity to put it into practice and be set up well to continue with it when you leave.
Enjoy!
Sarah Sharp
Intensive Signwriting December 2018