Looking for artist to paint helmet

[BIG186]

Anyone have experience with a local bay area airbrush artist that can paint a helmet? I'm not looking for anything too elaborate but would like some ghost lettering in a Shoei X-14 helmet.

 

[seadog]

Here. She hasn't posted for a while but does nice work.

http://www.daksart.com/

 

[ThumperX]

I believe Daks moved out of the Bay Area.

 

[tfkrocks]

She moved out of state a couple years ago

 

[Whammy]

Honestly Id like to find a decent painter here in the bay that specializes in helmet painting.
Of the ones I've seen in the past in haven't been too impressed at all.
There was a post or two on here, but im not going to go look for them.
Until then TroyLee Designs still gets my work.

 

[EastBayDave]

I can't find a quality (Shoei/Arai) green helmet that meets my taste at all. Sure would be nice if there was someone that didn't charge $1K+ to do a simple paint job...

 

[Whammy]

I can't find a quality (Shoei/Arai) green helmet that meets my taste at all. Sure would be nice if there was someone that didn't charge $1K+ to do a simple paint job...

Agreed!
That's about the norm though.
I pay much more for my Motorsports Helmets to get painted, you are hard pressed to get a reputable painter to just paint a simple color or two.
Maybe a name or simple graphic.
They want to express their creativity, and bounce that cost up past what you mention above.
Who says artists are starving?

Take this one for instance... it was done in 2008 for Jimmy Vasser's last drive at Long Beach.
I helped the paint manager at TLD carry about a dozen lids in to the race course that year including this one. He was also delivering mine to the track as well.
My helmet cost pocket change compared to Jimmy's I believe it was a little north of 15K maybe more. For those curious yes that is gold leaf you see.
Stunning lid in person.:thumbup

 

[ThumperX]

You might check in with Kirk and Lisa over at http://www.customdesignstudios.com/