Let me introduce myself.

Hey, I’m Michael, known by my friends as Sandy.

I have been painting signs since 2023 and before that have been doing graphic design professionally for the past 10 years. Digital design has always been a passion of mine and began when I “acquired” a copy of Photoshop on my home PC when I was a teen.

During my college years I became fascinated with hand lettering and the messages that could be sent both artistically and literally. Once employed as a graphic designer I began to experiment with bringing illustrations into my lettering work which became the basis for most everything I’ve done after. In 2021, when we were all reeling from the after-effects of the pandemic, I found sign painting on Instagram. 

Sign painting, also known as sign writing by those in the industry, has a storied history that covers all walks of life. From quick painted advertisements to hang in grocery store windows to carefully crafted gilded masterpieces for the wealthy, sign painting covers it all. In a time preceding vinyl stickers and printed signs, paint was king.

There are many artists around the globe currently working as sign painters in an effort to breathe life into an art form that was almost forgotten. Drive through any downtown or older part of a city and you’ll see the ghost signs, remnants of our past, high up on brick buildings nearly faded out of existence. My goal is to bring the vintage and classic feel of those signs into the modern era with a twist.