Can anyone reccomend someone who can paint a referse-painted panel for a vintage clock?

Question

I am restoring a vintage Seth Thomas split-column clock. I can't afford using a museum restoration expert. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I would recommend silk screening each color. Any sign shop could do it, but an art supply store could tell you how to do it yourself fairly easily and on the instructions with the supplies. Do you really want to trust your baby with someone else? Maybe a sign shop could do the screen, but you keep the glass and do the screening. It takes some practice on scrap material. Silk screening is the way they do it today. I hope it's not concave, then a sign shop or an artist might be able to do it by hand, Convex can possibly still be screened by a sign shop, if a particular shop has that skill. Artists are notoriously sloppy. Anyone doing it should have a picture of the exact results expected, preferably clean and opaque enough to use in a photographic process or a film positive, an actual camera photo.