Mastering the Art of Aging: How to Paint a Sign to Look Like Aged Metal

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  • Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024

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  • @fairbrookmanor
    @fairbrookmanor 6 месяцев назад +9

    We have a creepy, gnarled-trunk pepper tree in front of our house, planted in 1947. The sign would go on the trunk, which is adjacent to our picket fence, making it look like our front yard is the cemetery. Every passerby would get that eerie chill and look over their shoulder when walking by. Especially when I just sit quietly looking out my front window! 😈

  • @Joseph.A.Creations
    @Joseph.A.Creations 6 месяцев назад

    Another wonderful tutorial. I would add it to one of my cemetary pillars out front. The storm at the end is the perfect sound for our haunts and it sounds like an evening in Florida in the summer.

  • @freezerguy
    @freezerguy 6 месяцев назад +4

    Rolling thunder… I live in Florida. We get that about everyday here. It’s very relaxing and awesome to see and hear!!

    • @ParadoxicalLisa
      @ParadoxicalLisa 6 месяцев назад

      Haha! I was going to make the same comment. Just another day in Florida.

    • @wesleywalker4709
      @wesleywalker4709 6 месяцев назад

      Is it 3pm in the summer already? It really is almost EVERY DAY here in Florida in the summer months. )That's out wet season and you can set your watch to the thunderstorms coming through!)

  • @dextermorgan2396
    @dextermorgan2396 6 месяцев назад

    I'm in the process of completely remaking my graveyard for this coming year. This sign would look AMAZING on the new cemetery fence I'm making!

  • @joetriche2891
    @joetriche2891 6 месяцев назад

    I love rainy days with rolling thunder but I live in south Louisiana so it’s quite common for us here. I love the sign but I don’t have a haunt so it would probably be hung over my couch and no one would ever see it so it would be best going to someone else. Always excited to see your new videos!

  • @BigBlock61
    @BigBlock61 6 месяцев назад

    My Halloween display is a grave yard theme with homemade gravestones, a crypt and crypt keeper, animatronic ghosts demons and werewolves. They are all made with techniques I learned from watching your videos. For this year I'm looking at making a wrought iron fence and columns for the front of my display and that sign would make a perfect addition. Keep up the good work, I'm learning a lot from your videos.

  • @melissamaas4029
    @melissamaas4029 6 месяцев назад

    This would make a great addition to my cemetery I made. I'm working on my sign that will show the name of my cemetery and this would be perfect on my entrance column. Love your work and creativity.

  • @SummersideDiver
    @SummersideDiver 6 месяцев назад +1

    Y’all are having quite the weather! The sign would make a great addition to the pillars on our fence around the cemetery. Thanks again, and as always, for sharing your techniques.

  • @kimberleykitty
    @kimberleykitty 6 месяцев назад

    I have an oddities room (called The Crow's Nest) in my home with quite a few antique and vintage funeral themed items. This would be perfect there! Awesome work.

  • @David-mp6vc
    @David-mp6vc 6 месяцев назад

    These spray wash techniques are quick and create unbelievable looks. I now use it on regularly on my props at home. Great tips!

  • @haynerbass
    @haynerbass 6 месяцев назад

    Another very cool project with great results. I would use it on my new display for this year. A smoking corpse tied to a post; surrounded by undead barely fleshed corpses mourning and wailing in distress. Thanks for another great tutorial.

  • @DianaGrobauer
    @DianaGrobauer 6 месяцев назад

    I would put on one of the entry columns to my cemetery haunt. Absolutely fantastic work as always!

  • @danielbrowning6755
    @danielbrowning6755 6 месяцев назад

    We recently moved from Utah to Washington State and sold most of our home haunt of 20 years. Needless to say, we are behind in our haunting projects, one of them being a new cemetery entrance and columns. Since I haven't finalized a design yet, I could incorporate the sign into my final design and save me some time rather than getting bogged down in the details.

  • @johnbishop7784
    @johnbishop7784 6 месяцев назад

    Excellent guidance on weathering a sign. As usual, nice job my friend. It would be an excellent addition to the main gate of the Old Oak Cemetery. People are often confused about the actual hours for viewing all things creepy, so this 5 lb bronze beauty would clear everything up. It would also inform those out and about as to when they need to return to the grave.

  • @MuscleCarsLoveMe
    @MuscleCarsLoveMe 6 месяцев назад

    I would likely put this outside my apartment door. I like adding decorations outside of my apartment to help it stand out a bit from all of the similar looking units. I think it’ll look great under my porch lamp that has a fire flicker bulb in it!

  • @amystith2402
    @amystith2402 6 месяцев назад

    I’d love to add this sign to the graveyard section of my Halloween yard display. Possibly on one of the brick pillars we have that line the walkway of our house?
    This last year was my first one really going all-out for Halloween, and it felt really cool to hear people saying that we had the best decorations they’d seen!

  • @wesleywalker4709
    @wesleywalker4709 6 месяцев назад

    I'd use this in my yard haunt. I've been looking for a reason to finally build some brick columns with carriage lights to improve the rusted chains/iron pipes fencing I use to keep the viewers from walking into it. I like that it'll look as good in daylight as nighttime. My graveyard is seen at dusk more than it's seen at night and has to follow that philosophy.

  • @dezm2778
    @dezm2778 6 месяцев назад

    That’s exactly what my cemetery haunt entrance needs!!

  • @wiseprepper125
    @wiseprepper125 6 месяцев назад

    I would put this on my main gate for my halloween cemetery. It would be the added touch I need. Great job.

  • @ParadoxicalLisa
    @ParadoxicalLisa 6 месяцев назад

    Wow. That's gorgeous. I hadn't seen that water staining technique before. I'll have to try that.
    I have never done a yard haunt before, but my house has a little picket fence around it that I've always thought would make it perfect for a cemetery scene for Halloween. Complete with big columns at the gate like you've had at yours. A sign like this would be awesome for that.

  • @chadokane7592
    @chadokane7592 6 месяцев назад

    I built a cemetery fence and other props to round out our home haunt with many projects inspired by you! I’d place this sign right at our cemetery entrance!

  • @RevNoch
    @RevNoch 6 месяцев назад

    This would immediately go on my cemetery columns, directly front and center.

  • @gh0ulsg0newild1
    @gh0ulsg0newild1 6 месяцев назад

    This sign is amazing!! Thank you for the painting techniques.. I would proudly display it in the funerary section of my Odditorium and my seasonal yard display.

  • @davelee9111
    @davelee9111 6 месяцев назад

    Aweosme job!! I'd love to add this sign to my home office that started as a homage to the Haunted Mansion but is now a dark ride haven generally. It would look so good on my wall!

  • @csyork
    @csyork 6 месяцев назад

    I've got a large cemetery haunt and I would use this sign at the gate. I've got a main cemetery with a working gate and my side yard features a pet cemetery. I've got a PVC fence with "stone" pillars between sections and larger pillars for the gate. It's a spot my neighbors use to take pictures of their kids year after year.

  • @katelynnmartin4130
    @katelynnmartin4130 6 месяцев назад +1

    I am a new haunter and have loved your tutorials on gravestones! My current project is creating a Victorian style cemetery for my front yard! It would be super neat to have an authentic looking sign to hang next to my tombstones!
    Thanks for your great videos!

  • @kyleray5452
    @kyleray5452 6 месяцев назад

    Great tutorial. I would put the sign in my classroom to inspire my media production students.

  • @hornet232
    @hornet232 6 месяцев назад

    Looks great! such realistic weathering....Would put on one of the entry columns to our cemetary. Will be finishing those this summer with the connecting iron looking top between them. Always adding more gravestones and pieces every year. Thanks for all your videos, they've been a big help.

  • @DeadgarPoe
    @DeadgarPoe 6 месяцев назад

    Awesome work sir. We are doing our first outdoor display this year which happens to be a grave yard, we were able to snag a pnuematic grandpa from lowes after the season was over and have full intentions on having him breaking free from a grave. We have some headstones we are working on but I think the sign would set things off.

  • @thehauntonbayhilldrive2376
    @thehauntonbayhilldrive2376 6 месяцев назад

    I put on a full garage haunt (different theme every year) and a full yard cemetery that always has a nod to the Haunted Mansion. I would proudly put your amazing sign on the one of brick pillars that hold the gates to my cemetery. BTW, I love your channel and have used a lot of your techniques to create props. Thanks for all your great ideas and inspiration.

  • @scottpaxman9444
    @scottpaxman9444 6 месяцев назад

    I have a dancing skeletons in my Cemetery and this would be a great addition!

  • @therebelworkshop
    @therebelworkshop 6 месяцев назад

    I love that technique dude. I do want to make some antique signs to decorate my new flat. I'd definitely put that up in my living room.

  • @metajock
    @metajock 6 месяцев назад

    Thanks, I've got a lot of uses for this technique!!! If I got this, this would go straight to my game room's door.

  • @teresashewell7105
    @teresashewell7105 6 месяцев назад

    I would put this on my Halloween Disneyland shelf! It would be perfect there!!

  • @HFSPOOKYJ
    @HFSPOOKYJ 6 месяцев назад

    I have really learned a lot about layering color on smaller props. I always worried it would be too much on smaller things. I would put this on my columns during the season and proudly display it in my office in the off-season. Sounds like you may have brought some of our NC weather back with you when you visited.

  • @pennst1179
    @pennst1179 6 месяцев назад

    As always, thank you for the video. I hope others enjoy this wonderful build.

  • @zarnistastudios
    @zarnistastudios 26 дней назад

    I am late to the party on this one. I am just beginning my DHM graveyard. I got my 1st 3 this August.
    I would definitely want to make the brick gates one side would have this sign and the other would have the DHM sign repainted like you did in another video.
    Keep up the amazing work. And thank you for the inspiration.

  • @robear_76
    @robear_76 6 месяцев назад

    My yard display is all skeletons and cemetery stones. It would go right up from on the tree that hides a few surprises and people walk up on Halloween.

  • @drudge92
    @drudge92 6 месяцев назад

    We have a basement and the stair well walls going down could always use decoration. Thank you for this tutorial I just 3D printed a no solicitation sign Disney style and wanted to use this same technique rather than the rub n buff u mention

  • @beckamellison256
    @beckamellison256 6 месяцев назад

    Great Video! The sign would look awesome in front of my homemade dark ride in our queue themed to haunted mansion . Great video and tips

  • @101scetch
    @101scetch 6 месяцев назад

    Hi there. That was absolutely brilliant yet so easy. I think I did tell you that you have taught me quite a lot in your videos. I am definitely going to give this a try. Thanks so much for what you do. Blessings to you from England.

  • @ichigomichelle
    @ichigomichelle 6 месяцев назад

    Hi!!! My boyfriend and I love watching your videos together!
    During Halloween, I would place this sign right next to my front door! Each year I always build a little cemetery there!
    As for the rest of the year- I'm slowly converting my den into a haunted victorian library so this would go wonderfully with my 'Live, Laugh, Lobotomy" sign~!

  • @pablow5549
    @pablow5549 6 месяцев назад

    This turned out great, it would look great in my Halloween cemetery.

  • @horses2by
    @horses2by 6 месяцев назад +1

    Wow your sign looks amazing!!!

  • @JessieTidwellofficial
    @JessieTidwellofficial 6 месяцев назад

    I would put this on the gates to my back garden!!!

  • @stephencarr356
    @stephencarr356 6 месяцев назад

    I'd love to use this for my graveyard haunt at our new house in a new state!

  • @leighbarrett6797
    @leighbarrett6797 6 месяцев назад

    Love the calcium technique. Would love to have something like this for my Halloween display. I’ve already started planning this years display 😊

  • @peterney5450
    @peterney5450 6 месяцев назад

    I would love to put this sign up for my haunt entrance. Recently we just bought our home and I can not wait til halloween

  • @jenniferperson1460
    @jenniferperson1460 6 месяцев назад

    This would look awesome on the outside of my columns!

  • @NeilHendin
    @NeilHendin 6 месяцев назад

    Awesome sign. I'd put it next to our cemetery name sign made out of a discarded bed headboard from a kid's bed we repainted to look like this sign.

  • @brbailey
    @brbailey 6 месяцев назад

    I have a great cemetery that really needs a sign. It would be a great addition.

  • @canovanas78
    @canovanas78 6 месяцев назад

    Always enjoy these how to videos. Gets the mi d thinking where can I add these techniques. Sign could go by main door as a way to spook the delivery folks

  • @ekij133
    @ekij133 6 месяцев назад

    A great looking sign.

  • @kamelsr
    @kamelsr 6 месяцев назад

    In my apartment complex it will be difficult to put out until October. But next to my bedroom seems like a good place for now.

  • @DREADPOOL
    @DREADPOOL 6 месяцев назад +1

    beautiful. love learning new tricks and incorporating them. Definitely placing it up front of our Haunted trail. Good luck to everyone and Congratulations! to the winner.

  • @bakevision6503
    @bakevision6503 2 месяца назад

    This is an amazing technique, thank you!!

  • @DoktorHalloween
    @DoktorHalloween 6 месяцев назад

    That diluted white paint came out aces!

    • @VanOaksProps
      @VanOaksProps  6 месяцев назад

      Yeah, it's a good effect. Especially for something like this.

  • @pjfoltz8810
    @pjfoltz8810 6 месяцев назад

    We have a cemetery down the road that has no sign. It would look great there.

  • @dangoras9152
    @dangoras9152 6 месяцев назад

    I would put it by our creepy gate to scare off people😂.. Keep it up brother

  • @karenfabiano5980
    @karenfabiano5980 6 месяцев назад

    Love the inspiration you provide! I have an enclosed garden that nothing seems to grow in, this sign would look great there. I wonder how your painting technique would work on something more rain resistant, like plexiglass. I would assume the tack spray and baby powder would still help with the texture and this would help with the watered down paint that is used afterwards??

    • @VanOaksProps
      @VanOaksProps  6 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks so much! It would work the same way on acrylic/plexiglass.

  • @gravemarker
    @gravemarker 6 месяцев назад

    Front left entrance pillar.

  • @celticht32
    @celticht32 6 месяцев назад

    I would add it to my haunted mansion collection room..

  • @ollymottin
    @ollymottin 6 месяцев назад

    In my garage gym ❤

  • @markemerson5324
    @markemerson5324 6 месяцев назад

    this is great - How would you incorporate mounting screws in to the design and painting?

    • @VanOaksProps
      @VanOaksProps  6 месяцев назад +1

      I’d glue a thicker piece of wood to the back side that would give me a better mounting surface.

    • @markemerson5324
      @markemerson5324 6 месяцев назад

      @@VanOaksProps thanks for the reply.

  • @patbo3577
    @patbo3577 6 месяцев назад

    I'm contacting all the creators of RUclips videos that I recommend to fellow haunters for inspiration & how to content.
    Today I was watching a video of a woman melting in the design on her Gothic facade, cool right.
    But she wasn't wearing a respirator and her face was about 18 in from where she was melting, she surely was breathing in plastic fumes.
    That said, since I highly recommend your channel could you please do a specific video of proper safety equipment, like using a respirator when this is airsolized. Etc.
    Also please add what safety equipment you use in each project because apparently people aren't realizing that they need to use safety equipment when making.
    Thanks for all the great content you create.

  • @TheDarthBobul
    @TheDarthBobul 6 месяцев назад +2

    We have a large antique display cabinet in our home. It’s filled with an odd array of kids art projects, vintage Halloween buckets and original movie props (my favorite being a fiberglass Saxon helmet from the tv show Vikings). I Think this sign would look amazing there for 364 days out of the year. But on Halloween it would have a very special place on the gate that watching your videos inspired me to build. We have a huge turnout each year (400 to 500 people) and we could definitely use this for the area of our haunt we have designated for visitors to take their pictures with. Would absolutely love to add a VanOaks original our collection.

  • @BlanckMortuary
    @BlanckMortuary 26 дней назад

    Is there a need for a clear sealing coat as the final step? My haunt is outdoors and we get rain multiple times in October. Thanks!

  • @ActionFigureAtorium
    @ActionFigureAtorium 6 месяцев назад

    This sign would go where ever the dead soldiers, ie empty beer bottles, end up.

  • @Mattbirchfield
    @Mattbirchfield 6 месяцев назад

    This would go great in my tiki bar

  • @markcroft4698
    @markcroft4698 6 месяцев назад

    Could you have used spray on metal hammered paint as a base coat?

  • @jenniferzagata
    @jenniferzagata 7 дней назад

    What do you suggest for a beginner’s laser cutter & engraver as far as quality and pricing?

    • @VanOaksProps
      @VanOaksProps  7 дней назад +1

      I’d check out the Glowforge Spark

    • @jenniferzagata
      @jenniferzagata 12 часов назад

      @@VanOaksProps Thank you 🙂

  • @terriroemmich1617
    @terriroemmich1617 6 месяцев назад

    WOW! To own something you made???? Will you be signing the back of it???? I think I would either hang it in my bedroom or in my craft room. During Halloween, I would hang it right on the house, that way it's close and the dogs would go off if someone got close to the house. I have 4 big dogs ( a Ridgeless Rhodesian Ridgeback, a Blue-nosed Pitbull, A Red-nosed Pitbull, and a Beagle/Basset mix all over 60 lbs, and the cat who thinks he's the smallest dog) and when they all get to barking, it can be a bit jarring. They're our built-in security.

  • @timothyyoung4106
    @timothyyoung4106 6 месяцев назад

    Just make me one! 🤪🤪🤪

    • @m.maclellan7147
      @m.maclellan7147 6 месяцев назад

      @VanOaks might not be a bad idea to sell these !

  • @oriolesfan2463
    @oriolesfan2463 6 месяцев назад

    😑 Every time I’ve watched one of your videos I find myself saying “What? Why do that…oh that’s why. Nice.” Or “That’s not gonna look right….oh damn, pretty cool.” “White paint and water, in what world is that….hey, that’s cool.” All that to say now, watching your videos, I’m just going to open my notebook to a new sheet of paper, sharpen my pencil and shut up and learn.

  • @TrueBrit1
    @TrueBrit1 6 месяцев назад

    HAARP weather?

    • @VanOaksProps
      @VanOaksProps  6 месяцев назад

      Haarp?

    • @TrueBrit1
      @TrueBrit1 6 месяцев назад

      @@VanOaksPropsYes. Goggle it - a bit of a rabbit hole!

  • @gunnarbiker
    @gunnarbiker 2 месяца назад +1

    I was born on Halloween in 1970. I appreciate all the efforts that people go into celebrating and decorating for me around here! LOL
    We have been in a drought here in North Carolina. Should work wonders for the 4th of July!

  • @m.maclellan7147
    @m.maclellan7147 6 месяцев назад +1

    Think I would hang that sign in my Art Studio in Rockland, Mass. I AM really tempted to make it a haunt one year ! (Live in an apt., so,.....)

  • @raymitchell9736
    @raymitchell9736 6 месяцев назад +1

    I'd use that sign on my cemetery columns if it would fit there. If I recall correctly, it is 10" across... Otherwise I'd find another spot, like on the fence next to the entrance columns...

  • @susanowen1709
    @susanowen1709 6 месяцев назад +1

    Love how this turned out! Our wisteria should be grown out again by Halloween, so I'd put the sign up next to it, with a few tendrils hanging over it and just enough light shining on it so it can still be seen/read.

  • @WhiteysWickedWorkshop
    @WhiteysWickedWorkshop 6 месяцев назад +1

    The watered down white and teal at the end really put on the finishing touches!! damn! Great job!

  • @TonyBullard
    @TonyBullard 6 месяцев назад

    Record the rolling thunder while you have it! It's great for haunts.
    I have a plan to build a gate for my cemetery, and would love to have this sign compliment it!

  • @PowerChordEPS
    @PowerChordEPS 6 месяцев назад

    I'd probably have this sign in my little home Halloween cemetery. I try to do something new every year and add more to the story and this would be a nice little addition. Plus I'd get a feel for the aging techniques in person to see how else I can do it for other props.

  • @lynnmakes
    @lynnmakes 6 месяцев назад

    I would have to say, while I don't have a haunt, it might be a piece I'd put on the fence just inside our house's carport.

  • @jeffjackson4465
    @jeffjackson4465 6 месяцев назад

    I've been building headstones for my yard haunt since 1999.. I'm in the process of making columns for the gate. This would be perfect for the entry.. Happy creating.

  • @TheOuterRim_
    @TheOuterRim_ 6 месяцев назад

    That turned out fantastic! Thanks Derek

  • @TheSteveAS
    @TheSteveAS 6 месяцев назад

    That sign turned out amazing Derek! Killer job! Now hopefully the residents of your cemetery can read! 😂

  • @annettemurphy9846
    @annettemurphy9846 6 месяцев назад

    This would be Spectacular in my Haunted Mansion alcove this is Amazing work Sir thank you for sharing here👍

  • @StoneE4
    @StoneE4 6 месяцев назад

    4:47 - Sense it would make sense?
    In what sense, or which sense are you talking about? Or, are you talking about cents?

  • @scottlonganecker8230
    @scottlonganecker8230 6 месяцев назад

    Awesome job as usual. This would be amazing my cemetery on the pillar or on the gates. Thank you for all the instruction, it's amazing.

  • @bondjames628
    @bondjames628 6 месяцев назад

    Would love to add this to a mausoleum-style display I’m working on for my home haunt. Inspired by the (now former) brick wall in the pet cemetery at Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion.

  • @Georges_Workshop
    @Georges_Workshop 6 месяцев назад

    I absolutely love this sign! Great job. I don’t really have a haunt per se but I would proudly display this in my basement stairwell right under my lighted Bettlejuice sign that I picked up
    From Spirit Halloween last year.
    Once again, great job on the sign.

  • @WastingMyPotential
    @WastingMyPotential 6 месяцев назад

    For sure this would go at the base of our haunt sign.

  • @afogel
    @afogel 6 месяцев назад

    Another great tutorial! Faux metal finishing is so much fun.
    This piece would look great in my house as a complement to the reproduction of Disneyland's "here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy" plaque that hangs above my doorway!

  • @whytewaive
    @whytewaive 6 месяцев назад

    I live in a ranch style home in Las Vegas, and my "front" door is actually on the side of the house. This means that my haunt cemetery is in the side yard, which is gated. Trick--or-treaters have to walk through this area to get to the door to get candy, and I'd LOVE to have something on the wall of the house, to add to the overall "story". Also, the wall is terribly blank and I've been racking my brain over what to put there (if anything).

  • @Salguod2k
    @Salguod2k 6 месяцев назад

    I used this sign and the technique you showed last Halloween and I got rave reviews from the people just walking by.

  • @pingpong8193
    @pingpong8193 6 месяцев назад

    I'll put it in the game room, on the wall next to the "Distortions" Pumpkin Witch and Foo Fighters Pinball machine :) Awesome job on this one, I will be revisiting this tutorial for sure!

  • @davidiancu5408
    @davidiancu5408 6 месяцев назад

    Hello, I'm from Romania and there aren't any other home haunts that I know of here. That is because some people here believe that by celebrating Halloween you worship the devil. Anyway, I would use this in my outdoor cemetery and I would probably make my diy chicken wire ghost hold it ;)

  • @JonFlores275
    @JonFlores275 6 месяцев назад

    Amazing information as always ❤The sign would be a perfect addition for our cemetery display at my brother's home

  • @larryg3038
    @larryg3038 6 месяцев назад

    Our home turns Halloween Haunt every October with many yards of tea-stained cheesecloth billowing in the breeze on shutters and porch details while skeletons climb the porch pillars overlooking a graveyard 🪦 where your awesome sign would reside. Thanks for another great tutorial.

  • @Chris7six
    @Chris7six 6 месяцев назад

    I would give the sign to a friend who does themed campsite decorations every year during Halloween Camping at Lake Rudolph...they go big and win 1st place almost every year! They are doing a pirate theme this october so I actually shared with her your pirate chest video.