Basically these were all personal projects. They were just recently showcased at the 8th annual Star of Texas Tattoo Revival.
The girl panel started with chrome metal flake and then burple kandy on top. Then I masked of the black outer border and the inner frame where I was going to paint the portrait. Then [...]
I painted these guns for a 4H auction. I was able too shoot these guns with paint, rather than shoot them in the traditional sense.
The Longhorn and Aggie guns had plastic stocks and the Tech was wood. Different prep techniques were needed to paint these guns. With such precision equipment, extreme attention to detail when [...]
Austin Texas has two well known lakes- Lake Austin, which is really the Colorado River and Lake Travis which I work next to. When I moved here, I immediately met some people who wake boarded. I told them I wanted to do a custom painted wake board and Greg from Lake Lessons gave me [...]
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If it can be painted-It should be painted. I get so tired of people being scared to do something different. This huge white wall was driving me crazy so it was time to make a mark!
Club 609 is an Asian-Fusion hookah bar in St. Louis that needed some attention. My roommate knew the bartender and [...]
This van used to be school bus yellow! It was a tarmac vehicle with a huge black 13 on the roof. I used a heat gun to remove the vinyl and pretty much focused on the roof before I got to the sides of the van. After I sanded it down, I prepped it for [...]
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Guitars are just like bikes. It’s a tool of expression. But why do they all look the same?! Everybody’s musical style is different so let’s mix things up a bit and get crazy! Everybody recognizes Eddie Van Halen’s guitar. Same with Dimebag Darrell. I love painting guitars because i’ve been playing guitar for years. So, [...]
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The owner of this tattoo shop is one of the coolest chicks I’ve ever met. The first time I met her, she was calling me from a white soccer mom van. She was following me on the highway and got my # off my airbrushed tailgate. We pulled into a parking lot, then this 20-something [...]
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