Where do you sign your prints?

[Greg Lockrey]

2B Berol pencil sharpened with sandpaper, Title to the left with edition number, Signature to the right, on the print bottom margin. Signed the first Friday after a full moon before 6:00pm.

(It's Friday )

[tim atherton]

2B Berol pencil sharpened with sandpaper, Title to the left with edition number, Signature to the right, on the print bottom margin. Signed the first Friday after a full moon before 6:00pm.

(It's Friday )

I find dried sharkskin does a better job than the sandpaper and makes for a better looking pencil impression....

[M Brian Mills]

Everyone has their methods of signing. I often do not sign prints until they are leaving my possession and in those cases they are usually framed by me so I often sign the back of the mounting.
I've heard this is bad practice because the print and the mounting can easily be separated.
If it is just a print then I sign the back in an archival ink.
I know of an artist who has photos at SFMoMA as well as many other places around the world and he made a stamp and just stamps the back in "archival" ink and then signs in pencil on the back.

It's really up to you.

My feel is that part of the reason to sign a print is for the provenance of the work--should it make it to a point where its origin is up for debate or discussion.

[Greg Lockrey]

I find dried sharkskin does a better job than the sandpaper and makes for a better looking pencil impression....

I'll give it a try....thanks Tim. Any particular breed of shark?

[paulr]

Most shark breeds are acceptable, but if you're an ecologically responsible artist you'll use the skin of a live one.

[Greg Lockrey]

Most shark breeds are acceptable, but if you're an ecologically responsible artist you'll use the skin of a live one.

I'll keep that in mind... do you then wet the tip of the pencil with your tongue prior to signing?

[SamReeves]

Mechanical pencil on the bottom right for me.

[Toyon]

I just saw a Cartier-Bresson print at the Addison Gallery. He signed with an enormous blocky hand, several inches long and at least half an inch high. It was in a nice black ink and on the margin of the front of the print. The local beach and lighthouse photographers who sell at souvenir shops usually sign with gold ink in a prominent place. I usually sign on the back.

[domenico Foschi]

I cut a body part per print sold, put it in a ziplock bag and staple it in the back of the frame

[Greg Lockrey]

I cut a body part per print sold, put it in a ziplock bag and staple it in the back of the frame

No wonder your editions are limited to just 30.