Q & A with pin striper/airbrush artist Sam Boeger
Hi Everyone! I started striping when I was 13 years old and I’ve always had a passion for art
and cars. I absolutely love learning, and I’m fortunate to learn from some amazing mentors
and friends I have met along the way! With practice, patience, and passion you can achieve
anything! If you have any questions or comments, let me know! Thanks- -Bogie check out my
website- www.bogies.biz
What drives you to be an artist?
years I have been taking it on with more endurance, and I love
What drives me to be an artist is the need to create. I find that
it! I feel that it fits my personality very well, and I’m able to still
being creative and wanting to express yourself is very addict-
be creative and be in the car industry. It’s like the perfect col-
ing, exciting, sometimes frustrating but always a rewarding ex-
laboration of art and cars. And its not just the cars, its pinstrip-
perience. I’ve always known I wanted to be an artist ever since
ing the shoes, purses, anything that can hold still long enough,
I could hold a crayon in my hand and it was something that I
it gets striped! I think that’s what’s makes it fun, is taking any-
was always interested in.
thing and making it that much more customized.
There’s a quote hanging up in my studio that reads...
Happy are those who dream dreams and willing to pay the
price to make them come true.
I think that sometimes we aren’t able to fulfill our dreams be-
cause we can’t pay the price at the time, life happens, and it’s
supposed to. But it’s still never loosing sight of your aspira-
tions, they’re apart of you. I feel that every one of us has an
artistic bone in our body, but its maintaining it and letting it
grow.
It’s not an easy task; it can sometimes can be a long and lonely
road trying to gain the courage and strength to actually pur-
sue your passion.
Its pulling those late nights and early mornings, cussing at your
brushes when you get something right, reworking something
till you cant stand it, and then the moment hits you, and then it
all works out, seamlessly. Its that moment where you achieved
How do you go about using color in your artwork?
something artistically, its those moments that I crave, all those
Color I feel is one of the most important parts of the design.
blood sweat and tears paid off, and you’re able to share your
It’s what ties the whole piece together. When it comes to strip-
vision with the world.
ing a car or bike, I’ll use the accent colors to do the striping
design, or otherwise noted by the owner. If I’m allowed to go
How was it you first picked up a pin striping brush to use
hog wild on a dark background, I tend to go for a lot of color, I
in your artwork?
enjoy trying to incorporate fades, where the line goes from one
I first picked up a pin striping brush when I was 13; I played
color to another. But for fades to be successful, its best to use
around with it but never took it as seriously as I do now at age
analogous colors, colors that are next to each other on the
21. I grew up in a household full of cars, my dad is a mechanic
color wheel, for instance red to purple, purple to blue. I think for
and I’d always enjoy going out to the garage and try to help
an artist, its important to study the color wheel, because you’ll
as much as I could building cars. Now I own more hotrods
be able to associate and find which colors are compatible with
than my dad does, all projects cars of course. He knew that
each other. I have found that using warm colors work well for
I was serious about my art and he told me about pinstriping,
pin up girls with cool colors going around it, for example a pin
and we’d go to shows and I’d observe the lines of pinstriping
up with oranges and yellows, with blue and purple accent lines
masters, getting up close and try to read the name under line
around her. But importantly, have fun with color, test different
work. I took a few seminars as I got older, and in the past two
color schemes and you’ll surprise yourself on what evolves!
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