This Used To Be Me

They did a video called, “Wall Dogs” to illustrate the dangers involved in creating those amazingly detailed and photographically real signs on walls many feet above the sidewalk. The “wall dogs’ illustrated don’t look like much, but they’re not only very brave, they're amazingly talented. I can’t do it any more, but I respect those who still do. Most of the sign painting field no longer exists, due to the emergence of sign making computers. People no longer hand paint window signs, trucks or automobiles or even show cards. It’s all done now by a computer, using people who have no idea how to really DESIGN a sign to lead the eye where it’s supposed to go. Today, you get perfect letters, but that’s about all. And the buyers wonder why signs no longer are as effective as they used to be—except for the ones on walls, which will always have to be hand-painted by the “wall dogs” until they invent something other than paint that will adhere to a wall. Then the “wall dogs” will go into the “mists of history” like all other sign painters, including me. (The Blaze)