Pinstriping by Julie Fournier

Autorama Detroit 2011 went by too fast! I always have so much fun pinstriping and meeting new people as well as catching up with old friends! I did a panel beforehand for the charity auction that's held to raise funds for charity, but my friend bought it before it even got there! I donated half of the proceeds anyway, and then I painted a second version (pictured below), which they auctioned off for over $200! yay! Lots of pinstripers from all over the US and Canada contributed their time and talent and this year's auction raised over $36,000 for Leader Dogs for the Blind. I just love doing something good and having a great time; what more could anyone ask for? I think one of my most memorable moments of the whole weekend came when John Harrow and I had to make a mad dash from the basement all the way upstairs through the thick ocean of people just in time to literally *slide* into the group picture right as it was being shot! A moment later and we would have missed it! We we...

Pinstriping and Kustom Graphics is a wonderful magazine, and they are going to do an article on me and my work. I'm really excited! I've been gathering images to send them, which hasn't been as easy as you'd think! They want pictures of the whole car, which makes sense, but I usually forget to bring my camera, and when I do, I just take pictures of my work, not the whole vehicle! One job I did was some of my best work, so I decided to drive an hour to the guy's house to take a picture of the car, since I only had a picture of the c-pillar and my work on it! He was very accomodating; I told him it was for a magazine article and he was more than happy to oblige! I've finally got enough pictures to send, now all I have to do is write a 200-300 word "bioblog" on myself and then send it. Another magazine, Throttle Gals, is supposed to be doing an article on me, too. I didn't have to do anything for that one other that paint! Lots less work for ...

Randy from B&B Collision in Royal Oak saw me up at the Woodward Dream Cruise doing some striping and liked what he saw - he called me to do some lettering on his dad's car. I forgot my camera on that one, oops. Randy called me again to do some work for a friend of his, Mike, on Mike's trans am. I did a nice red line down the side, and this cool red stripe on the c pillars. Today I got to put some silver double stripes on a 1947 Pontiac for another friend of Randy's who just had new skirts put on it. I matched the stripes to the ones that have been on the car since it was new, and I also redid the red & black lines in the logo on the hood I love that I get to touch such beautiful cars!

My friend that I met at the charity pinstriper auction at Autorama in Detroit, Chris Stapley, kindly invited me to his home in Canada where he has a yearly panel swap with other pinstripers. What a blast! Lost of us came, and striped all day. There was food, too, an incredible banquet, a feast! Pulled pork, hot dogs, corn on the cob- the best I've ever had! Chris and his wife let me sleep in their home, too, they are so kind and generous - I love Canada, let me tell you! Here's a picture of all of us, and some panels I did there. I can't wait for next year!

Just a little something I did. Restoration striping. Enjoy.

I love my job! I woke up early to get some work done before it got to hot. Today's jobs were a cooler and two signs. Enjoy the pictures! I'm sure glad I got it in early, because my thermometer is reading 100F! whew! I'm hiding in my air conditioned bedroom for a few hours where it's nice and cool and I can tweak my web page. Always working, LOL! ;)

I went to Brighton yesterday and pinstriped for eight hours! I had a lineup of bikes waiting for me, it was awesome! The guys, and gals, in the Forbidden Wheels Motorcycle Club are amazing. What a generous group of people! Here's some pictures of some of my work from the show. I hope you enjoy them.