Mike Pickle Lowrider Art?

Several years ago, I ran across a series of Lowrider Posters by a guy named Mike Pickle or Pickel....I haven't heard of him in a long, long time. His work was great...Does this ring a bell with anyone??? Thanks...C9

 

Your talking about Mike Pickel! His lowrider and cl***ic car airbrush art was quite the bomb 25 years ago.

He's still around doing airbrush work, custom paint jobs and building customs. If ya go to http://pinheadlounge.com, you can see some of his stuff and a recent pic of him.

He's one of my all time favs.

Joel

 

Haha, good ol' Mike Pickel. He's still around. I haven't seen him in probly a year or so but last i talked to him he was still making art and rollin around in a *****in 53 Caddi. If you ever have a chance to meet him he's a great guy and will tell you a million rad stories.

 

Thanks guys........Mike is the one! His art was outstanding, but his popularity was probably limited to the West Coast.....Not many Lowrider Clubs East of Sterling/Rock Falls Illinois 25 years ago.... C9

 

any sources on prints of his art?
I dug my old posters out, one was severely water damaged, but luckily a couple of the others are ok....
I was going to just hang them in the shop, but it looks now like I should frame/protect them first...

 

I used to buy his posters in the 80's when I visited my cousins in Ca. I pinned them to my walls and threw them out after they got torn up. They were great ,though. I too, wish I could find some today!

 

Anyone have any pics of those posters?

 

I got a few posters, but they are getting fragile! Heres a photo of my favorite one I got off the net.....

 

...I've got one of a 38 Chevy sedan delivery lowrider, one of my favorite posters,..I'll get a pic.

 

here are my 4, my green one sustained the most damage, but I was able to add a bit of green paper behind the hole and frame it, and it came out ok....just saw a mint version of that one on the 'bay for $600!!

 

http://www.thehappeninggallery.com/Mike_Pickel.html

 

http://www.layitlow.com/forums/12-lowrider-general/87197-mike-pickel-artwork.html

 

they have reprints out now available through Mike Ramos.I will try and get some info where you can buy them.When I 1st moved to Albuquerque in the 90s,Brian Everette had a tattoo/art shop a couple miles west of his well known tattoo shop on Central.I walked in there to visit Slick (beatnic/good friend to Rudy Rodriguez) and the actual paintings were hanging on the wall.Brian Everette told me that he would give me a hell of a deal on them but at the time I was dealing with some legal problems and had to p***.

 

I have 4 or 5 of this prints, some still in plastic protection. love his lowrider art but I used to save his art from the magazines..

 

new one

 

i have the same problem. Let me know how you make out. I would like to purchase some myself.