Before he sets to work, before the first of what will be a thousand brushstrokes, each one fluid and articulated and occupying the space between artwork and industry, the sign painter wants you to ...

Sign painter Josh Flohre, owner of Ink & Hammer, in his studio in Dayton's Davis-Linden building. Flohre has an extensive inspiration collection of antique signs and documents. Sign painter Josh ...

Santiago Sánchez brushes red paint along the edge of gold letters, creating a 3-D effect on the black tin sign he's painting. He pauses to pour red "One Shot" paint into the bottom half of a ...

Joseph Giampino can’t find any emerald-green paint. Half-pint cans of 1 Shot lettering enamel paint are stacked in every corner of his Maywood Road studio, bursting at the seams alongside tool ...

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) - A liberal amount of gray is flecked in the beard and hair of Norman Randall, 54. It’s not from the paint the Cheyenne man is applying to signs at the AVA Community Art Center in ...

Lester Carey parks his shopping cart full of paint supplies on the neutral ground on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near Claiborne Avenue. Carey, dressed in a red shirt tucked into high-waisted ...

Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Jeff Williams, traditional sign painter. “Right as I got out of high school, I had a job ...