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Posted by Steve Shortreed (Member # 436) on :

Mike Lavallee & Rhonda Price sent in this photo of an amazing wall mural. I'll e-mail Mike and have them tell us more about this amazing project.

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Steve Shortreed
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Posted by Joey Madden (Member # 1192) on :

Now thats what this board is all about!!!
Absolutely beautiful

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Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :

Holy Moley!!

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Posted by Santo (Member # 411) on :

That's Rob Danlord's work in New Orleans. That particular Hotel was Previously a Howard Johnson where a sniper fired at the Duncan Plaza. Rob has some real nice work all over the country.

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Santo Brocato
Promotion Graphics & Letters
Youngsville LA.

Posted by Stephen Deveau (Member # 1305) on :

Now if he had asked for some free help on the project..
I would have been there in a flash!!!
Beautiful work....
It makes all of us envious!!!
The larger, The more inpact!!!

Great Work.

Raven/2001

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Raven/2000
Airbrushed by Raven
Lower sackville N.S.
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Posted by Barry Branscum (Member # 445) on :

Wow....I MIGHT be able to do that lifesize(not that good even then though)---but The 3d illusion to this piece ON THAT SCALE is, well awesome.....wow

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Master's Touch Signs & Screenprinting
Clinton AR
5017456246
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Posted by Gavin Chachere (Member # 1443) on :

Yep that is rob danfords stuff...i mistakenly said the other nite that the work was by a girl that does murals in this area.....i screwed that one up...she does have some other instruments on walls around town though...shoot me it don't have strings so i didnt pay as close attention to the coonversation as i should have...

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Gavin Chachere
aka Zeeman
Miller Supply Co./Ozone Signs & Grafix
New Orleans La.
www.millersupply.net
www.ozonegrafix.com

Posted by whitey2 (Member # 1265) on :

That is awesome....

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Neil White
Sign Magic
Melton, VIC
Australia
whitey@primus.com.au

Posted by Barry Chochinov (Member # 1902) on :

WOW! Thanks for the treat.

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Barry Chochinov
Designer/Lettering Artist
Signs by Stormin Norman & Son
Winnipeg, MB
Canada

Posted by Mark Fair Signs (Member # 289) on :

now that is stunning!!!
awesome!

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Mark Fair

Mark Fair Signs
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Posted by Adrienne Pereira (Member # 1046) on :

Seen that both times i've been there, but never been able to take a picture!!
Cool, huh?
Does he have a web site?

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Adrienne Morgan
Splash Signs
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Benicia, CA
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Posted by Miles Cullinane (Member # 980) on :

I'm going home and hanging up my brushes,

just kidding, amazing work, really

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Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :

Mike shared a photo with me of a car he just did what he calls "Real Flames" on. After viewing it, it took a while for me to start breathing again, and hours of laughing and pointing and proclaiming the combination of brilliance and humility possesed by this guy.

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The SignShop
Mendocino, California
"Where the Redwoods meet the Surf"

Oh, for the faith of a spider! He begins his web without any thread.

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Posted by Rob Ojeda (Member # 1881) on :

Now here is some work that put's a grin on your face. After about 6 minutes of wow, and how did they do that. I am now saying I wonder how I could do that hmmm, time to play!

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Rob Ojeda *PN
Ojeda Signs
Visalia, CA
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Layout life the way you lay out a sign.
Talent is an excuse for lazy people..

(*professional napper)

Posted by Cam Bortz (Member # 55) on :

That clarinet makes me wonder when a gigantic Benny Goodman will pick it up and start playing!

As for the real flames... that's pure Mike Lavallee. What a talent. Call the fire department!

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"A wise man concerns himself with the truth, not with what people believe." - Aristotle

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Raoul Duke (Hunter S. Thompson)

Cam
Finest Kind Signs
256 S. Broad St.
Pawcatuck, Ct. 06379
"Award winning Signs since 1988"

Posted by Santo (Member # 411) on :

Cam, The reason the clarinet is so big is that local clarinetist Pete Fountain is bigger than life. He will be making his annual stroll thru the streets of New Orleans on Feb 27 as the leader of the Famous Pete Fountains Half-Fast Marching Band. Something to do with a small local event called "Fat Tuesday".
Here a link to Rob Dafford's site:
www.highermind.org/murals

Chikie-la-pa

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Santo Brocato
Promotion Graphics & Letters
Youngsville LA.

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Posted by George Perkins (Member # 156) on :

Man, these two guys have raised the bar so high it will take a crane to reach it.......OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!

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George Perkins
Millington,TN.
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"I started out with nothing and still have most of it left"

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Posted by Mike Lavallee (Member # 320) on :

Hi Guys, Rhonda and I were lucky to see that wall job at all! we had taken a wrong turn the day we headed out of town and ran smack into that job! we stopped and got out to examine it closer and on closer inspection you can see the distorted reflection of other buildings in the chrome pieces! and they really got the 3 dimentional thing down too! I wish we had gotten a chance to see more of the other walls he had done in the area. if you're ever in New Orleans they're a must see for sure! as for my Pyro-technique it really is a fairly simple process of 4 to 5 colors starting with a white base and adding transparent color over it. the trick to it is to get the movement to look right. to achive that, I photographed paper and boxes burning at night. I took 2 rolls of film and of course each shot is different so you have a lot of versions to choose from. Mike

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Work like you don't need the money, Love like you've never been hurt, And Dance like no one's watching. :)
Mike Lavallee
Mike Lavallee's Pinstriping & Airbrush Art
Everett, WA

Posted by cheryl nordby (Member # 1100) on :

wow! Really nice wall job. And Mikey.....wow! I have a metallic sapphire blue truck....I want fire!!!! Dang.....email and let me know how much I should save to get that done to my truck. wow. I want flames. Dang......

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Cheryl J Nordby
Signs by Cheryl
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Posted by RichDiltz (Member # 367) on :

I tell ya'...just when I've done a little project and I'm feeling all puffed up I stumble across the work of a REAL artist and BAM! Brick wall.

Seriously...work like that mural and those flames is why I keep painting. One day in the far future, if I apply my talent and attend enough letterhead meets...just maybe....

Nahhh, that stuff is just toooooo good.

Thanks for the inspiration!
~Rich

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Rich Diltz
In Sacramento for now, but who knows where next

www.peoplepainters.com
dreamers@slip.net

Posted by mike meyer (Member # 542) on :

Great looking wall! Simply the BEST looking Flames I've EVER seen! Very nice Mike! I like it!

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Mike Meyer SignPainter
575 1st Street Box 3
Mazeppa, Mn 55956
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Posted by Mark Fair Signs (Member # 289) on :

i second that emotion mike meyer!

"spyke" those flames are too "HOT"

the photo singed my eye brows!

great work mike.

mark

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Mark Fair

Mark Fair Signs
http://www.markfair.com

Home of "Sign of the Month
http://www.markfair.com/signomonth.html

2162 Mt. Meigs Road
Montgomery, Alabama 36107
334-262-4449

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Posted by Mike Lavallee (Member # 320) on :

Thanks guys, appreciate the compliments.

I'm now doing them on a 50 Merc ( purple ) now. Mike

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Work like you don't need the money, Love like you've never been hurt, And Dance like no one's watching. :)
Mike Lavallee
Mike Lavallee's Pinstriping & Airbrush Art
Everett, WA

Posted by The Moon (Member # 452) on :

Now those are "Real Flames"! When I started really looking at pinstriping I just could not swallow those outlined scrolly flames as "flames". Then I Herb taught me how to paint them, and I still didn't like them... on a car. They are fun to stripe, but they don't belong on a Hot Rod.

Seeing your PT's flames gives me inspiration... IT can be done.

Thanks for sharing the picture Rick!

The gonna set myself on fire side of the Moon

(mentally that is... well, some people take things so literally- I didn't want anyone throwing my butt in the snow! Burrrr)

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The Moon
aka: Stefenie Harris
Moonlight Designs
Pollock Pines, CA
learnin' somethin' new every day!

Posted by FranCisco Vargas (Member # 145) on :

A few years ago, I also have seen this mural. It is "Super BAD!" BTW the name of the guy is...hate to say this Santo, cause you was the one who sent me the Times of Acadiana, his name is Robert Dafford, aka "Master of Allusion"
Anyway Mike checking out the pic by Rick Sacks, those are some BAD ASSSS FLAMES!! you have it down bro, that you do. I'm sure the rest of us we'll be waiting to see the Purple '50 lead sled. Keep up the dynamite work!!

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FranCisco Vargas
aka: Cisco
aka:Traveling Millennium Sign Artist
http://www.franciscovargas.com
Fresno, CA 93703
559 252-0935

"to live life, is to love life, a sign of no life, is a sign of no love"...Cisco 12'98

Posted by Linda Silver Eagle (Member # 274) on :

I am very impressed! Mike, I hope you don't mind that I show your work to my students. I can't wait to see how they react to your flames...and we'll be cruising "Rob's sight" as a class project!

Mike, you are the bomb!

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Linda Silver Eagle
Silver Eagle Graphix Studio
Georgia, USA

ICQ# 60434646

Signwriters never die...they've always got 1-Shot left!

Posted by Brian Keence (Member # 1867) on :

W O W !!!!

Thanks for sharing the photo's. Both are more vivid than I could DREAM it, let alone try to create it while I was awake!!!!

AWESOME!

Brian

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K&B Signs
2220 Lake Tekawitha Rd
Pacific, MO. 63069
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Posted by Glenn Hall (Member # 1877) on :

COOL!
God gave some folks TALENT !

The rest of us ? Well I'm still looking for mine or at least trying to recognize it.

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Glenn Hall
Hall of Graphics
Toledo, Il

Posted by captain ken (Member # 742) on :

Hey Mike! we need too see a step by step... or maybe a quick tip on how you do 'em... or is it just vision...

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The Witch city
Salem, MA

Posted by John Zant (Member # 1619) on :

well it will probably never get read, and santo you should know better! yes his name is Robert Dafford, and he does urals across the world. He's located in lafayette louisiana. he's been working in portsmouth ohio the last few summers on some incredible murals there, probably for the last 3 or 4 summers at that. there's alot of them, and they're big. lafayette is also lucky to have 4 of his murals that i can think of, and they are all phenomenal. and by the way, more flames, freakin unbelievable! by the way robert has a web site at www.dafford.com

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Posted by Mike Lavallee (Member # 320) on :

well if you guys want a step by step on the fire , check out the october 2000 issue of airbrush action magazine . I did one on them in that issue on a 38 chevy coupe.

Mike

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Work like you don't need the money, Love like you've never been hurt, And Dance like no one's watching. :)
Mike Lavallee
Mike Lavallee's Pinstriping & Airbrush Art
Everett, WA

Posted by Susan Banasky (Member # 1164) on :

Wow....These are the ultimate "EYE CANDY".
Thanks for the pics, Mike and Rhonda

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Source Signs
Nanaimo, British Columbia
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Posted by Adrienne Pereira (Member # 1046) on :

Fabulous flame job Spyke!!!!!

Mike's a real hottie!!!
A

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Adrienne Morgan
Splash Signs
www.splashsigns.com
"Rainkatt'

Benicia, CA
707-746-7847 (shop)
707-550-4553 (voicemail)
adrienne@splashsigns.com

Posted by Dave Sherby (Member # 698) on :

Amazing work. I feel like a rank amatuer again. I had those flames up on the computer screen and my wife grabbed the fire extinguisher thinking the puter was on fire. hehehe

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Dave Sherby
"Sandman"
SherWood Sign & Graphic Design
Crystal Falls, MI 49920
906-875-6201
ICQ: 21604027
sherwood@up.net

Posted by Ryan Ursta (Member # 1738) on :

Thats not paint that car really is on fire.... Ha ha jk. Absolutely amazing work Mike!!!

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Ursta Graphics
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Sharpsville Pa. 16150
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Posted by Mike Pipes [in a cubicle] (Member # 1841) on :

Hey guys, just like Mike said, go pick up the October 2000 Issue of Airbrush Action and you will see Mike's step-by-step on that fire.
He breaks it down very well and after some practice, you'll see how easy Mike's directions make it.

It does take some practice though to get it down, especially considering variables that affect real fire like wind, temperature, and even the actual material that's on fire (different materials burn different colors).

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Mike Pipes
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