| . The picture on the left shows me, Brian McEleney, hand- lettering as an employee at Whalom Park in the 1970's. On the right, I'm adding the final touches to some gilded letters on the Johnsonia Building under a downtown revitalization program in August of 2000. Before vinyl letters and sign plotters were conceived years of hard work and practice went into developing the art of hand lettering, gilding, carving and other sign-related skills, which we still retain today and are useful in many applications such as pinstriping,outlining, murals, glass gilding,resident signs,etc. |

