This is the art of Phil Leonard, of Syrarum Color Studio of Hollister California.
Winning the Larry Watson award is very cool, but not a surprise when looking through the art that Phil has made. Incredible stuff!
BoMonster is the only one that took great photos of this Kellison
The Larry Watson Award had me look up something;
In 1955, at the age of 16, Larry Watson began his pinstriping career.
His inspiration came from watching Dean Jeffries striping, while sitting on his bicycle outside of Barris Kustoms in Lynwood.
Von Dutch had moved his operation uptown working out of "The Crazy Arab's" Competition Body Shop at 7201 West Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, so it was Dean Jeffries doing his first striping for Barris on Johnny Zupan's 1949 Mercury.
Larry asked Jeffries where he had bought his brushes. Jeffries answered "What do you want to do? Put me out of business?" At the time it was only Von Dutch and Dean Jeffries who applied what they called "Modern Striping." Larry answered that he just wanted to stripe his own car, but Jeff still wouldn't tell him.
Two years later, when he graduated high school, he opened his first car painting business
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