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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.

Ballroom Rumble and a nitro funnycar

vonsven — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:32:05 +0000

I had a blast at Lead Kings CC’s annual party, there was a good turn out of cars and the crowd was in good form. luckily I got set up with a spot on a platform so between that and the neighboring lowbrow mag crew’s diversive antics, I managed to navigate some clean lines amidst the party zone.

The next day I started on the Rimfrost funnycar adding a ray gun wielding space viking and shading on the hologram text. Next time I will finish the viking and add an outline to the letters as well as highlights on the shades as well as some other goodies. Although this car has been repainted it is a classic Swedish funnycar with a lot of history and it is a real honor to get to letter it, and help to preserve the nostalgic style of funnycar graphics in drag racing of today.

Big Chief, Pontiac

vonsven — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:11:01 +0000

This is defiantly a one of a kind Pinstripe here.

I got the job to paint a Chief on the trunk of a Pontiac and at first I wanted to make it Chief Pontiac himself, but after some research I couldn’t find any pictures of him so it ended up being more of a loose interpretation of a plains indian with headress and western shirt, which for the record is more of 1800’s style for the Ottawa But made for a much nicer design with all the radiating feathers. ( Pontiac having lived in the 1700’s probably would have been sporting a headband with some feathers)

Chief Pontiac is known for his part in starting a war with the British when he lead an attack on Fort Detroit in 1763.

also the pontiac V shaped logo is actually a stylized arrowhead design..

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

2010 Camaro striped

vonsven — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:29:56 +0000

The layout of these stripes was designed by the owner Ted who has the advertising company fart & flakt

I was impressed by the effectiveness of the design, it really suits the cars lines as well as giving a longer and lower look! not bad..

Black Acid Evil

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

Finished painting Andreas’s mean machine today..

Live and Jive pinstripe demo 2010

vonsven — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:09:41 +0000

Had a great time at Live and Jive this Year, I had the new Pinstripe Plant II book on hand and made some on the spot pinstripes on a few cell phones. I also broke out my new waterbased paints and did some pinstripe “tattooing”!

Sadly I missed the music again, but there was plenty of life around the booth. It was cool to get to meet Korena missylu who had the booth next to me She dose the handbags and is from Cali.. we are soon going to collaborate on a special line of pinstriped handbags! Some other vendor friends where there including Sixty Souls chopper and skate shop and of course Lowbrow Mag.

Peal Green Chopper Striped

vonsven — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:58:19 +0000

The tank was lookin’ a bit empty so we dolled it up a bit ….

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!

Pinstriping a car on a boat

vonsven — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:28:55 +0000

I was invited to follow along and paint a Hot Rod for Motorbörsgaraget on the Wheels Magazine Boat. I went with a gold stripe treatment to match the engine. Its a nice looking rod built with a personal touch (not to mention the striping) and is now up for sale ! Contact motorborsgaraget if interested..

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.

Retro Clock

vonsven — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:34:28 +0000

Man that’s a nice clock …

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.

Gray Shoebox ford

vonsven — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:21:51 +0000

Check out this car I striped in the summer time. I painted outside the old studio on the dirt lot, when it was done we cruised to get some pics by these bungalows on the waterfront. Dang, summer sure was nice.. well so much for that.. haha

…Oh and check out the new zoom feature just click on the thumbnail and once it zooms in you can use the arrow keys to browse. It is in use in my portfolio now too, it really speeds things up

Pinstriped Trispoke Wheel

vonsven — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:59:07 +0000

This was my first time striping one of these.. ! It goes on a really nice vintage Motta, you can see it built up >>here<<

Hippy Hoj

vonsven — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:36:52 +0000

So… I haven’t added much to the studio blog for a while, and it isn’t because I haven’t been painting.. quite the opposite. I have been getting a lot done and also have been lucky to move the studio to Motorbörsgaraget for which I am very thankful !

Now I am getting back to it and will be playing catch-up till I get to current my current work, sorry for the delay and thanks reading !

So here is a pinstriping job that I did a while back, this one was fun.. I was given freehands to do something in a 1960’s or hippy style to suit the chopper’s leather pannier, which was hand made by the bikes owner! It’s so cool -check out the embossed pot leaves !

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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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