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Dog Hill Customs

vonsven — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:53:47 +0000

The other day took a trip to letter up the Dog Hill Customs Garage paint on this step side Chevy. Some simple lettering was added on the doors in semi flat ( to match the trucks finish) and striping in white was added to accent the two tone paint job.

Happy Mothers Day ! (in Sweden)

vonsven — Sun, 30 May 2010 11:21:28 +0000

Surfs up pinstripe demo at Elmia

vonsven — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:02:46 +0000

At the Bilsport Custom Motor show I joined Kenth from The Land Inn motel and did some live pinstriping on a nice little surfboard to match his entry in the show, his classy custom ‘63 Ford Galaxie Country Squire!

Also got to lay some lines on this very cool Shovelhead..

And a little job for the owner wild custom Oldsmobile rocket 88.

100 year Harley

vonsven — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:49:38 +0000

The 100 year anniversary emblem from this 2003 Harley Davidson tank, got replaced with my hand painted version, metallics where used in order to match the stock paint and graphics. (a cool detail they did on this model is the silver center band is printed with a pattern of tiny, tiny Harley Davidson text, fancy!)

Old English 800

vonsven — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:22:03 +0000

Black Acid Evil

vonsven — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:49:59 +0000

Finished painting Andreas’s mean machine today..

Black acid Tattoo bike progress

vonsven — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:16:15 +0000

The latest Belladonna Trackers bike is in the works., Up next black shades and outlines plus some heavy scroll striping.

Rad bike. its going to be out of control when finished!

Stadius truck lettering

vonsven — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:16:26 +0000

Mystic design and color theories from 1915 by the signwriting master Frank Atkinson served as a guide on this one. So each color ended up being blended up special (plus a little extra for the passenger side )
I am not sure if the colors are exactly the way they should be but it is pleasing to the eye. The red that he called for was called Tuscan red which I checked up on and it is the color of old Pennsylvania railroad trains! kinda cool, the rest of the colors are various shades of olive green and buff.

Rockafella Sign

vonsven — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:53:21 +0000

Here is a Sign I made for the Childrens Rockabilly clothing brand Rockefella! they requested a Sign painted to look old for use at fashion conventions. The layout and design was provided for me altough I favored my own lettering over the original font.
After I painted it all up the surface was heavily distressed and then hit it with my aging varnish mixed to matte to diffuse direct lighting.
Hope all the kid rockers dig it!

Christmas Goods

vonsven — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:58:32 +0000

Here´s some small things I helped out with before the holidays..the guitar is a take off of the lettering Art Adams has on his guitar.

Signs for Swahili Bob’s new location

vonsven — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:24:16 +0000

This is a bit dated I know but for those who haven’t heard my friends at Swahili Bob’s Tattoo and Piercing moved to their new location

Birkag. 33 11339 Stockholm

And although they where happy to bring along the original sign I made them way way back in 2005 (my first Stockholm sign job!) The new location needed more, so..

Both windows where painted with the new logo (a nice design by Papa Bear) and I also made up a Blingin’ Southside Minneapolis/Vandervaartian style Sandwich board for ‘em !

1320 Krusaders

vonsven — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:53:57 +0000

Recently I did some custom text and 50’s inspired weirdie striping on these parts for a customized HD Night Rod.
The bike belongs to Janne who organizes the vintage drag racing meet, Blacksmith nats. Janne’s dedication to the sport is reflected in the text, as there are 1320ft (1/4 mile) in the length of a drag strip. with I’m Looking forward to seeing it all built up, should be sweet it is going to be all black and grey.

Handshifers and Debops shoebox

vonsven — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:59:53 +0000

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Here is some side jobs from when I was down in Lund teaching the Pinstripe class.

First up I had a Shoebox from Magnus of the De Bops car club. Magnus had given is custom a nice flame job and all that was left was the outlines to make them pop.

After that Magnus had me letter the car name.

-that’s spanish for “shoebox”
you can check out more from the De Bops club on their website, http://debops.se/

The other project was for Fredrik who has Hanshifters Motorcycles in Skåne. He came up with a whole concept for the lettering and striping. I have to admit I was a bit skeptical but it turned out great in the end. The pinstripes in gold on the tank follow the style of crocker scalloping, this is then intertwined with the outline of a 1930’s Harley tank emblem which then creates the inner scallop of the teardrop which creates the background for the Handshifters logo! Not a bad idea, Check it out ..

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Blackboard logo

vonsven — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:57:54 +0000

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Here is a logo I designed for Annika Lindström. Annika is a master seamstress, is a specialist in mending vintage denim and also produces her own label, Blackboard. Check out her clothing or contact her for alterations or other services via blackboardlabel.com

The logo is brushed freehand in a one stroke casual with a relief drop shadow. The colors have then been corrected for print.

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Yama-tracker

vonsven — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:53:45 +0000

Finished up the lettering and striping on Robin’s bike the other night, this is third project from the belladonna trackers

Yama-tracker preview

vonsven — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:09:05 +0000

Started lettering and striping on the Robins new project down in the belladonna trackers garage …

…. more pics very soon, I’m heading back to square it off later today!

Trigger Happy

vonsven — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:14:14 +0000

Here is my latest Nose Art style jacket. the pin-up is inspired from a found image from WW2 jacket and a similar from a WW2 planes nose art. The machine gun and lettering I came up with myself. The letterstyle used is my own script but it is modified to resemble a 1930’s speedball text called “personality script”
As usual the fades are all brush blended wet-to-wet rather then airbrushed for durabilities sake.

Hot Rod High update

vonsven — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:22:34 +0000

I was asked to letter a special message to those who haven’t figured out the whole Rat Rod thing yet..

retro bil #2

vonsven — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:17:26 +0000

Retro Måleri now have a 2nd Volvo Duett and of course I had the job to letter to match the first!

I did the painting at my vehical painting venue motorbörsgaraget. The garage is a great place to work, being surrounded by so many classic cars and rods makes the ideal working climate!

Hot Rod High

vonsven — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:09:27 +0000

Only in Sweden…. a high school that offers a Speed Shop Class !!!!
Believe it or not under the course of a year students enrolled in the Tumba Gymnasium are able to learn how to build Hot Rods in this fully furnished metal shop.

If you would like to see the school Speed Shop, their rat rod as well as lots of hot rods and customs, the class is hosting a mini car show February 28th.. (info on the meet here)

Shop teacher and wishbones CC member Christer Vestergren asked me a while back if I could come in and demonstrate some painting techniques for his class. The task was to letter the schools logo on their latest project, a dropped rat rod pick-up!

Here are some pictures I took during my visit …

And some very nice photos from the speed shop’s assistant and photo student Kaido Kross (check more of his photos here) ..Thanks Kaito!