Gary The Local Brush

Specialties

Gary,“The Local Brush” is a full service custom specialty Airbrush Art, Pinstriping, Truck Lettering and Sign business… This is not your standard walk in sign shop, but a professional high quality art and lettering center… Gary still does hand painted lettering and complex computerized vinyl & digital printed graphics. We produce wide and large format posters, signs and banners… We also create computerized Logos on site, and print & cut vinyl graphic applications for truck or sign advertising. Full color printing is also available… Gary creates some of the most beautiful Motorcycle Art, which has been featured on the cover of numerous nationally known magazines… Gary’s newest service is carved PVC signs…23K gold leaf is a specialty… His airbrush art is now featured on many of the Long Island Fire Dept. Fire trucks… Gary, has an outstanding reputation for quality, service and dependability.

History

Established in 1965.

Gary has been Airbrushing, Pinstriping & hand Lettering since the mid ‘60s. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, New York.

Gary, the original painter for the original Motion Performance. The super muscle car builders of the 60s & 70s (Well known as the Baldwin-​Motion, muscle cars) Today he is now called upon to paint the original restored muscle cars that he had painted almost 40 years ago.

Gary’s work ethic, art & pinstriping quality is so high that world famous Steinway Piano now uses Gary’s talents to Pinstripe new custom made pianos at the original factory in Astoria NY.

Meet the Business Owner

Gary K.

Business Owner

Actually the name Gary, «The Local Brush» comes from the Hot Rod and Hi Performance Car magazines of the 1960s. Numerous articles have written about my art work and it has graced the cover of more than 30 national car and motorcycle magazine publications since the mid-​sixties. The most recent covers; Iron Works,(2011) Vette,(2010) Hot Bike and American Bagger (2009). Autoweek magazine wrote a 5– page article on my teachings at the Center for Automotive Arts & Refinishing, which was associated with the Bronx Community College in New York. Airbrush Action Magazine’s newly published book, «Masters of Pinstriping 2» features 6 pages of my work.

I am a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, New York, with a BFA. Many of my paintings now hang in public and private collections. Using urethane paint and «my» state of the art techniques, the «automobile» is now my canvas. The love for the art of airbrush painting, pinstriping and lettering has earned me numerous awards