April from Hadley - California sign painter

Hadley is one of our college student pen pals. From the postmark we can see that she's in Maine. I like the stamp placement and am pondering doing something similar. It was a shock this morning when I discovered that I only have 3 days of posts. I'm writing this on Saturday. Let's call it Scary Saturday. I need to fill up the rest of the month but I also need to do my May envelopes. On top of it we are in weeding season. I'm sure we will muddle through. The sun isn't even up. 

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The Society for Calligraphy, the Southern California guild is having a guest speaker at their annual meeting. I love the story of how she got into lettering on walls. Somehow I ended up on their email list even though I am not a member. Here's the blurb about the speaker followed by a link to her website.

In this talk, Perla will share how lettering moves from design to wall, 

focusing on scaling methods like pounce patterns, layout, and on-site 

execution. Through process and experience, she offers a practical look 

at what changes when letterforms leave the page and are built at scale.

After many years of appreciating super market signs and even the hand 

lettered Home Depot signs, Perla Gallegos stumbled upon a "Paper 

Signs for Grocery Stores" workshop with John Downer.  She had always 

assumed they were signs created by talented employees and that it wasn't 

an actual JOB. She instantly fell in love with the craft and took another 

workshop with Australian sign painter John King. Shortly afterwards 

she took the leap and enrolled in the renowned Sign Graphics program 

at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College (LATTC ), where she was 

mentored by legendary instructors Doc Guthrie and Carlos Aguilar.

After leaving her career in architectural design, Perla launched 

Superlative Signs to focus fully on sign painting and beautifying 

business facades throughout Southern California. Specializing 

in traditional, custom hand-painted storefronts, murals, gold leaf 

gilding, window lettering for businesses such as restaurants, 

retail, hospitality, creative spaces and everything in between!

https://superlativesigns.com/home where you will need to surf to see her work.

Here is IG - which I prefer - https://www.instagram.com/perla.g_lettering/

It was really hard to chose an image - there are so many styles. Even though they are mostly wall and window size, I see many that look like envelopes. These aren't even favorites - if I had time I would go back and change this photo - but - it's weeding season.