Hand Lettered Door Art, Need some pics

Damn, there's a bunch!

 

WOW Spalding....good stuff! I gotta get to work...I'll contribute later.

Are we talking commercial art or lettering.... or just any kind of paint???

 

Still more!

 

Shit! How many of these do I have???

 

I need to get to work, but I can't!!!!

 

The End!!!!

 

Here's another

 

Dang Spaulding..... Those are really cool!!!

 

Here are a couple more cars. No real lettering, but numbers count, right?

Also check out Alan's site, he is really great. He did the 404 car, and his son did the Camshaft Spl. http://alanjohnsongrafix.com/

Best, MRAK

 

Spaulding beat me to my own punch. Thanks.

Check my avatar.

Mike

 

Here is mine but you might have seen it before

 

where have I seen that??

 

You may remember this one too

 

Top two hand-lettered by http://www.dansignman.com

 

Since there are some perfect examples here, I'll hi-jack this thread.
It's a dead give away that door art or advertising isn't really old when you paint a 7 number phone number (or even worse a web address). Back in the day they used exchange letters for the first 2 digits (remember PEnnsylvania6-5000!).

When I was home for Thanksgiving, I asked my Dad how they came up with the letters and words for the exchange. All he remembered was that in the San Mateo, Ca area the exchange was DIamond for everyone. He didn't know how that name came to be, but everyone used it.

So, I've been doing more searching to find what my phone exchange letters would have been. I was going to make one up, but I found this resource. The Telephone Exchange Name Project.
http://ourwebhome.com/TENP/TENproject.html

With it I was able to figure out that the exchange in my area was AMherst, so my number was AM6xxxx.

I think its pretty cool and it should help with your authentic door art.

Tom

 

The Number on my International P/U above is from around 1934 and just has 4 numbers and it is the original paint on that truck.

 

I noticed that, very cool. That was before they went to the lettered exchanges or from a very small town.

Also, sometimes the exchanges used 2 letters and 4 numbers instead of 5. But if you are trying to use a modern number of your home or business you need 7 digits.

 

This thing has more horsepower than my '46...

 

Be brave, get out the brushes and go for it. Just give them to someone who can lay it out! The "Esso Bee":

 

You need to look away from the pinstrip stuff and find information on old school sign painting.
There

 

look at sign shop web pages, they will have the photos and the information you are looking for.

Give me a PM and i can direct you to some in your area.

Brad

 

As an old sign writer I can look and tell what is hand lettered, I can also tell if it is original. I can also tell if it was done using masking, or vinyl. It is just like valuable antiques, some are real and correct and many are not. The ones that are original should be valued as real art. The spirit of the day is cool.

 

Heres one from my buddies shop truck.

 

Here is the one that I painted on the door of my pickup. My 4 year old is Joe Jr.




- Joe

 

Cool three of these trucks and One of the sedans I painted

 

That's pretty cool Joe!

 

As an old sign writer I can look and tell what is hand lettered, I can also tell if it is original. I can also tell if it was done using masking, or vinyl. It is just like valuable antiques, some are real and correct and many are not. The ones that are original should be valued as real art. The spirit of the day is cool.[/QUOTE]

Which is it?

 

Here are a few I have done over the last couple of years

 

A few more

 

Some great artwork in this thread. Enjoyed them all. For some examples of number styles, go to Flickr.com They have groups or pool of photos featuring numbers. If the link doesn't work, use search engine and put in the word ; numbers , then click group

http://www.flickr.com/groups/numbers/pool/


Other unique groups/pools that may have ideas for you are ;
Signs

http://www.flickr.com/groups/signcity/pool/

Dale
Cleveland