Ha! Bet you don’t know what that means. Well, stay tuned and I’ll tell you all about it. As you know I wear a number of different trade hats here in ye olde shoppe. I’m a picture framer, an artist in water color and oil paints, custom sign letterer and a gilder. The gilder hat I wear is what this …
Hand Lettered Sign Work by Mike Simpson
These are some examples of the hand lettered signs I do. This is a field that is dear to my heart. If you’ve followed along for very long you know I appreciate anything that is well made by hand. Snow shoes, canoes, violins, picture frames, motorcycles and hot rod cars to name a few. Hand work in signage ranks right up …
Motorcycle Cargo Trailer Lettering
Here is some lettering I just clear coated on the motorcycle cargo trailer we will pull behind the Harley on our Long Ride North. This was all hand painted and gilded by yours truly. No computers were used or harmed in this project. I had planned to do something on the sides also but I just ran out of time. …
Final Preparations Underway for the Long Ride North
We are currently in the middle of making our final preparations for our Long Ride North, a motorcycle adventure. we’ll be leaving a week from tomorrow. You can click here for some details. The short version is that we will be riding north into Canada, The Yukon and The Northwest Territories for 14 days. On the 15th day we will turn …
Old Hippies
Many of us come from an era in societies history when “hippies” were the new outrage. Ah yes, the 60’s. Well some haven’t outgrown the genre. I just finished this piece for a client who still believes in Love, Peace and Happiness…Make Love, Not War…Flower Children, etc. Prints and note cards are available from the world headquarters of Simpson Gallery …
Catching up
It’s hard to know where to start, it’s been so long since I posted anything. I see that I left you good folks in Battlemountain, NV on my way to Petaluma, CA for a screen printing and gilding workshop I attended at Letterhead Sign Supply. In short I will say that it was a great class. Ron and Kristi were …