Sign Painter

Very cool, TKNS. If the passion grabs you and desire burns, the only way you'll get good at it is practice, practice, practice. You'll need to find about an extra hour every day. Don't stop. Before you know it you'll gain some confidence and want go out and start making money. I practiced for two years before I was confident to even stripe somebody else's car. I have to thank my mother-in-law for allowing me to borrow her extra refrigerator for my shop when I started my business. I started using it to practice on. One day the phone rang and I forgot to wipe off the practice striping. Oh well. Then all the stripes started stayin'. One day the MIL stopped by. She liked to have had a holy cow. We just laugh about it now. She's a cool MIL. Best regards, R

Great post. Nice to come across some other dinosaurs. In 1972 started lettering and striping professionally. Built many a model dirt track race cars in my teens. Hand lettering the sponsors on the model race cars built my confidence enough to hand letter a real race car at 16. Got hooked and the passion has continued for 49 years. Now I'm ready to go full circle - started modeling recently and feel like a kid again. First Letterhead meet I attended was Kansas City in '83. Then to Raymond Chapman's Texas Letterhead later that year. One of the 'original seven' Letterheads, Mike Reilly, made it to Raymond's meet. Those meets were really inspiring. Not many meets with so few sign artists anymore. My first post. Life is good. R