Painting Process The Welcome To Las Vegas Sign Redux 2012

Welcome To Las Vegas Sign Painting by Borbay 2012

Vegas baby! For a second year, Ari Lankin and yours truly, this year joined by Paul Zepeda, shipped off to Vegas for nine days of painting madness. I’m starting off with my Welcome to Las Vegas Redux painting… here is last year’s.

Enjoy the entire video, set to a stellar, custom soundtrack created by frequent collaborators — the talented Nelson R. Downend, Jr. and Ahmed Mahmoud.

Welcome To Las Vegas Sign Painting Process

And here is the set-up! And now, enough Welcome to Las Vegas action to last you… until 2013.

Welcome To Las Vegas Sign Painting Process

From the start, I decided to go gonzo on this bad boy, so I started out with an unusual grey wash.

Welcome To Las Vegas Sign Painting Process

It’s all about a mix of classic and contemporary Vegas. They used to host A-Bomb parties around Vegas…. as a testing site was right close. Of course, you can’t think Vegas without Sinatra…

Welcome To Las Vegas Sign Painting Process

Back to a traditional primary triad first round, red, yellow, blue.

Welcome To Las Vegas Sign Painting Ari Lankin

Here’s Ari Lankin getting his Welcome to Vegas painting on… look familiar? You might have seen it in the Las Vegas Review Journal.

Welcome To Las Vegas Sign Painting Process

Starting to bring things together with some out-of-the-tube white, because, why not?

Welcome To Las Vegas Sign Painting Process

Focusing on the circle shadows on the sign… bringing explosive colors to the sky.

Welcome To Las Vegas Sign Painting Paul Zepeda

Check Paul Zepeda in-action well before he gold leafed that bad boy.

Welcome To Las Vegas Sign Painting Process

Starting to get there… adding the bulbs around the sign.

Welcome To Las Vegas Sign Painting Borbay

Going over the surface with a flurry of china marker hashes.

Welcome To Las Vegas Sign Painting Borbay

I like to focus pretty hard, as you can tell. So many people asked me if I was Jason Mraz this trip… they had the first name right anyway.

Welcome To Las Vegas Sign Painting Process

A step back to see where I am at… making my final notes.

Welcome To Las Vegas Sign Painting Process

And William Kearney showed-up out of nowhere with his trusty companion Eko… and here’s a shout on Purina’s Petcentric blog for good measure.

Welcome to Las Vegas Painting Process Borbay

The scene… for the record, the sign is usually mad packed with Elvises and weddings and such… but this year was relatively quiet.

Welcome to Las Vegas Painting Process Borbay

OK, there is Elvis performing a wedding right behind my easel! Elvis was like, “and now I pronounce *points finger at man* and *points finger at woman* as husband and wife, uh-huh!”Welcome To Las Vegas Sign Painting by Borbay 2012

 

Done! Redux! Vegas!

Welcome To Las Vegas Sign Painting Detail 1

A close-up of Blue Eyes, and the 2012 atop the nuke-cloud — a shout to the Mayans.

Welcome To Las Vegas Sign Painting Detail 2

We stayed at the Luxor last year, hence the shout…

Welcome To Las Vegas Sign Painting Detail 3

Howard Hughes comes back to Vegas and drops big bucks… but alas, all things come to an end (see cloud). See you in 2013 Sign. And, a big shout to JP Carmona for being such a huge help… and a great friend.

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