Five Ways to Sign Your Painting - with Karlyn Holman

Karlyn Holman demonstrates five ways to sign your paintings with helpful and surprising tricks!

[@lobstertail7568]

I’m new to watercolor and stumbled upon your video because I wanted to know how to sign a painting. But I found myself gazing in awe at your artwork instead, having forgotten about my desire to sign my painting.

[@KarlynsGallery]

That's sweet, thanks!

[@patrickpenta3005]

Me too! I love her paintings!

[@toshawatkins7195]

Best Video tips I've watched on watercolor signatures & why. Straight to the point! THANK YOU! 😊

[@lianayarckin9368]

You have such a great teaching style and voice! Thanks for sharing!

[@pattyshaw8300]

Thank you!!! So interesting and helpful!! Your paintings are BEAUTIFUL

[@queensaharaice7376]

This was extremely helpful, thank you for the video!

[@mariakellner2221]

I would like to share ,one way if not sure where to place the signature,use aa piece of acetate with a permanent marker sign, that can be moved around the painting to find a place ,as its see thru.

[@judichristopher4604]

INK

[@angelasherman100]

This is so helpful - and I love the idea of signing using a wash. Thank you!

[@ELKFILMZ]

I've always hated the idea of signing my artwork in the front but I've been having so many requests to sign I can't resist anymore. You're video had great tips on how to do this properly, thank you!

[@imahumdinger77]

I totally agree. It took me a long time to sign the front but now I play Where's Waldo with it and clients love it

[@tc9085]

Awesome technique! Thank you! :D

[@maryt2887]

What excellent ideas, Karlyn! I especially like the masking fluid idea.

[@connectionoflivesandinterests]

*Awesome video!!!! Thank you!!! I've liked & subscribed. I'm a newbie with Acrylic Painting, but I totally Loved this video. Ya never know where our paths will take us, so love watching everything!!! Never knew that about sharpies. 🤗🤗🤗*

[@OneTrueWord1988]

I really appreciate this - thank you so much for posting! Have a blessed day!

[@Denise-SA]

Absolutely superb! Thank you for these techniques!

[@lidiamarina]

This is great information! Thanks Karlyn!

[@hummerlady54]

Thank you so much! I've been struggling with this.

[@christinakinne9790]

Beautiful paintings!

[@doralevitt2879]

You do such beautiful work, are the sheets you painted on already gessoed, and if so are they paper or canvas sheets? I plan to do a similar scene of row houses but with sail boats in front at a marina, it will be from either Italy or France, also some outdoor countryside scenes with a table filled with wine and food in the foreground- also from Italy or France! 😃🌷

[@maryaikens6712]

Those tips are very helpful to me. Blessings!

[@gorway7]

Thank you, I have always hated signing with a brush, I'm left handed and usually mess it up. Pushing a brush just don't work, I've tried turning the page and kind of signing downwards but that ends up nothing like my normal signature. I do like your idea of signing in pencil then wetting it - or scribing into wet wash (If i can remember to do it while still wet).

[@doxtraxstudios1408]

Very informative! Thank you.

[@summertonmill1433]

Amazingly informative - thank you!

[@suitelady1749]

This is very helpful advice. Thank you!

[@sheilaowen309]

Thank you for posting this video. I will be signing my art work from now on :)

[@KarlynsGallery]

Awesome!!! If you want to learn more I have a new e-course launching July 18th 2019! Save $50 by entering coupon code 50off. 24 lessons to take you from beginner to advanced in just one year. See the lesson syllabus karlynholman.com/kuk2syllabus/

[@maryyamw1301]

this is os helpful! thankyou so much! also your handwriting is very beautiful!

[@judichristopher4604]

Great Ideas... Thank you for sharing.

[@jude1515]

Very helpful and beautiful paintings!

[@SuperExadidas]

You have a beautiful penmanship.

[@cherylstone42]

Lovely ideas!!!!❤

[@irmacruz7771]

Great info. Thanks so much!

[@corynneful]

Wow this is life changing. Thank you!!

[@ArtistWizardry]

OMGosh such great ideas!!!

[@KarlynsGallery]

There's lots more....I have a new e-course launching July 18th 2019! save $50 by entering coupon code 50off. 24 lessons to take you from beginner to advanced in just one year. See the lesson syllabus karlynholman.com/kuk2syllabus/

[@EsteeDarla]

Love you channel i would love to see much more from you , you are so talented and I love your style

[@KarlynsGallery]

Thank you! I love hearing from you. I have a new e-course launching July 18th 2019! save $50 by entering coupon code 50off. 24 lessons to take you from beginner to advanced in just one year. See the lesson syllabus karlynholman.com/kuk2syllabus/

[@Cora996b]

thank you so very much for this information!!!

[@kathleengauer8122]

I painted a giraffe from the neck up and left the background white. Where would you recommend I put my signature. Would you camouflage it in the neck shadows bottom right?

[@nmurray2152]

Great information, thank you.

[@내이름은세븐]

your art is so pretty i love it

[@daisukeherb]

Nice work! Thank you!

[@jessywinters5350]

I love this. So useful, thank you!

[@rhondawillington9214]

I sign my watercolour paintings with a watercolour pencil 😃

[@SuperExadidas]

Thanks..this is a good idea. What brand you are using?

[@tf0073]

Great advice , love your art 😄

[@deborahmeyers7839]

Very helpful thank you for sharing

[@SuperExadidas]

Thank you very much, the Mars Staedtler pen you are using, please let us know the exact description.

[@burpo]

Surprisingly informative!

[@julesseaton847]

Beautiful work

[@theodosia8689]

I was always bad at signing my paintings lol thanks for sharing!! you're so cute \^o^/

[@suzannemossor8796]

Hi, I just started painting using canvas’. What kind of paper do you paint on? Ive been using acrylic. Do you put your paintings in a frame? Thank you for the signature options.

[@michaeldunleavy3868]

Thanks for this video, really helped me 😀

[@virginiavredeveld7956]

Helpful, thanks.

[@jooreo40]

Having trouble finding that sepia pen. Where can it be purchased? Thanks!

[@sebastianjungle]

thank you this is a cool video i know now. how to do it

[@ianmcmillan5932]

Thank you for sharing. However, I am confused, at the beginning if you sign your painting with anything else other than the painting, it’s classed as mixed media. Then you go on to show how to sign your names in mixed media. Did I miss something.

[@whitelotus1960]

Wow! Love this video!

[@donafellows2313]

I suffer from tremors because of a couple of the meds I take. I tried signing an acrylic painting this morning with a #1 brush and it was a dismal failure. How can I come up with a way to sign that will be legible when I'm done? Suggestions?

[@KarlynsGallery]

I wonder if you can order a stamp of your signature?

[@kiwibean9313]

I've come to find that pencil fades too much. I use either black or white depending on the color of the picture. my question is is that where is the best place on a portrait to sign

[@raimondasmarciulevicius7599]

Karlyn Holman, good job! :) :)

[@Chrisplue]

What size is your Myers Stadler pen that you use for signing your paintings.

[@chocolatcats]

Karlyn...If I wanted to keep a sail of a sailboat white....couldn't I pain it with maskoid? I don't know what to do and thanks for the signature tips

[@KarlynsGallery]

Absolutely. That would work! :D

[@chocolatcats]

thank you

[@nunu7797]

If you're not playing where's waldo with your signature you're not doing it right

[@jesuschristppbuh4564]

🌠"Thank you very much"✨

[@whitecinnamon]

The wet graphite method didn't work at all (or either I have a really good eraser) but scratching the wet watercolour wash is nice! I'll be doing that for my next pieces. Thank you.

[@the_lucid_dreamer_0755]

Hi! I have a question, will signing with permanent marker on canvas be a good option? Thanks for the tips!

[@KarlynsGallery]

We would recommend something more archival. Thanks for asking!

[@the_lucid_dreamer_0755]

Ok,Thank you for responding! :D

[@regallineage6091]

thank you! very helpful

[@saundrayork767]

Why is it that when signing your name in ink the painting becomes mixed media but signing your name in graphite does not? Graphite is every bit as viable an art medium as is ink; so, I fail to understand why one is OK and the other is not. Thank you for this video.

[@KarlynsGallery]

Great questions. Graphite has been excepted in the watercolor world since the beginning. You can draw with graphite your subjects and paint watercolor on top and this has always been considered ok in watercolor paintings. As soon as you use a pen, it is ink and considered a mixed media. Thanks for asking and I hope this helps.!

[@saundrayork767]

Thank you. Its funny b/c most shows consider my work watercolor even though my original drawing & my signature are in ink. I almost always call my work mixed media, and shows to a one tell me to just say watercolor. (As long as I'm in the show making money, they can call it peanut brittle if they like.) But it is important detail for entering contests.

[@cplxrh]

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[@ronward5698]

You’re crazy. You have a beautiful signature (and beautiful paintings too)

[@demon6937]

I still don't know how to make my signature look cool but your paintings are beautiful

[@margretdutoit3118]

So beautiful, and your information is great. Thanks

[@BoutiqueSheShe]

Thank you muchly!

[@santammaharjan]

Please make video on the tip for oil painting signature

[@charismatoslabiskun1597]

I would like re-upload your video on youtube, i will make sure to put your link on my description as well just if you allow me

[@Elahe1958]

can you please let us know how to sign oil colour. I have not found a neat or easy way to do it with brushes.

[@piaschlober8185]

Hello dear, In minute 4:16 of the video, What’s the name of that product?

[@KarlynsGallery]

That was a Daniel Smith masking with applicator. We liked it for a while, but it clog up too much for me to continue using it. I like the Liquid Frisket Masking Fluid the best and adding into some sort of applicator is what I'm playing with now. There are some long metal tipped applicators with a cover that has a little wire that is supposed to self-clean. Its always a challenge to not have them clog up.

[@piaschlober8185]

@@KarlynsGallery Thank you for your answer! :)

[@jamiemorgan75]

@@KarlynsGallery could you use a calligraphy pen dipped in masking fluid?

[@KarlynsGallery]

@@jamiemorgan75 I haven't tried this method! Let us know if it works!

[@wiki8924]

Please help me to identify the signature

[@Todomo]

the thing is i don’t know cursive so i struggle to sign my paintings.

[@星空-i1k]

With all due respect, I don't really think it's wise to put one's regular signature on artworks. I wouldn't really want my personal signature freely available for everyone.

[@judichristopher4604]

WHAT???? How many paintings have you sold? And how is someone going to know WHO painted it, if you don't Sign it??? Now, with that being said... I did this... My signature was "Desperado" ... Beautiful Signature... and guess what happened... I had a huge painting stollen and because I had not "Copy written" my Signature... I could not prove that it was my painting... The only thing that saved me was I had been in the newspaper.. and it had stated who I was, that I painted "Desperado" People BUY because of a NAME... more than the ART.

[@judichristopher4604]

Are you not proud enough to put your signature on your paintings?

[@dtisme2]

"Signing a painting" doesn't necessarily mean signing your legal signature. Many artists have an "art signature" they reserve just for their art. They might not look the same at all.

[@renata7714]

You have your name above your comment so its "freely available". The signatures on art are there to identify the artist.

[@naomiwilson2028]

I agree, i would sign my name differently than the way i sign my checks. It isnt a matter of pride in my work, its a matter of identity theft and my check signature being all over my art that i obviously want to display lol.

[@BarbaraAnne51]

At the very beginning of your video, you mentioned that you don’t like to date your paintings on the front, then you did just that on the ones you painted on location.

[@edgarb46]

Another one...

[@janX9]

She speaks sooo sloooow. Watched at 1.5 speed. Much better. Thanks for the video.