This is a project for a small church in the Lake Tahoe area. They came to me with a need for a set of signs to be created and placed near the road outside their building. The target aesthetic of the finished pieces was to be clean and to the point, married with mountainous and rustic. The final product included two 6x4' wooden signs framed with structural steel and sealed with pure lindseed oil. 

I began the process by sketching a number of options for the church logo. 

When the client was happy with the logo option, we got to work on drafting a design for the sign.

I salvaged around 50 square feet of 2x6 rafters from a collapsed, 120 year-old barn in the area, planed them down, and spliced them together with high-endurance epoxy. 

I used an old U.S. Army briefing projector to project the design from my sketchbook onto the wood's surface, traced it out with a white china marker, and hand painted the sign with highly weather resistant paint.

Finally, I sealed the wood with two coats of lindseed oil, then welded a substantial frame from 90° structural steel and fastened it with lag rivets to the sign. To attach the sign to the posts, I used larger diameter/length lag rivets.

The logo incorporates the likeness of a nearby mountain peak which the church felt was a significant piece of their identity.