Art Talk Tuesday - Signatures

SIGNATURE

[sig-nuh-cher, -choor] –noun

a person's name, or a mark representing it

the act of signing a document

one's name as written by oneself
a distinctive mark, characteristic, or sound indicating identity

any unique, distinguishing aspect, feature, or mark

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The idea for an artist is to make the signature unique and recognizable without taking away from the image. There are as many different ways as there are people. Here's a sample of other artist's signatures -

 Christopher Thornock signs with an iconic T in a square

 Carol Maine uses 2 different signatures, her initial and her last name

 Otto Lange uses and O with a number above it and to the right, the number represents the year

 and I use my name  (mine's bigger not out of some psychological superiority thing but because I have access to larger file sizes than are available from other artists)

Everyone is unique and their signatures show it.