Shaknaitis business is called Brush and Pounce. Brush, for the instrument, and pounce being the process used generations ago to place large ads on the sides of buildings.

“My father always had sign brushes and continued sign painting.” His father, internationally-known artist Samuel Marshall Gore, worked his way through college as a sign painter.

“I couldn’t stop thinking about why I stopped picking up a brush and painting,” says Josh Flohre. Today, he’s the owner and sole employee of Ink & Hammer, a traditional sign-painting service, but ...

When painting around a window casing, this is a standard procedure for the paintbrush. Using the traditional tool, it took me 2 minutes 44 seconds to cut in a clean line against the 2 x 4.

When I'm painting this part, I'm actually not looking at my brush or the line. I'm looking at how I can carve out this really nice shape and think about the negative space," said San Diego sign ...