If you like my work and would like a custom painted jacket, vest, western shirt, etc. for yourself, don’t hesitate to reach out to me! I occasionally take commissions and would love to discuss your ideas/concepts and possibly bring them to life. You can reach me at gji0316@outlook.com

Hand-Painted Clothing Pieces

Mine

His

A near-exact replica of Johnny Cash’s railway patch jacket he wore for a photoshoot with June Carter and was featured wearing on the cover of Country Music Magazine.

I painstakingly zoomed in on every single visible patch in the original photos, researched each patch individually by the colors and fuzzy I letters I could manage to make out, matched each one to a sharper image of the patch, and then hand-painted each one onto the jacket trying to stay as true to the real thing as possible. I managed to find a handful of the vintage patches on Ebay, but the rest are all painted on.

On the back, I painted a wanted poster I designed myself by using reference photos of black-and-white pictures of Johnny, old wild west posters, and put easter eggs to some of my favorite songs of his in the writing on the poster (“Folsom Prison Blues” and “Don’t Take Your Guns to Town”)

I wanted to add flare to this leather vest I got from Goodwill and decided I wanted to create my own biker logo for the back. I drew upon many popular “edgy” pieces like flames, playing cards, and travel themes such as the route sign. The added easter egg is that the “sun” setting on the horizon is actually a Sun Records record to nod to the Man in Black cover art silhouette of Johnny in the fore front.

Another Johnny Cash inspired work- this time, as a leather, biker vest.

One of my favorite projects I’ve made to date: a custom Welcome to the Plains Tour pearlsnap I made for the Wyatt Flores concert.

What started out as a plain, black shirt, ended up a whimsical western fringe statement piece. I directly drew upon the huge art piece Chloe Tyler (Chloe Tyler (@chloetylerrr) • Instagram photos and videos ) made for Wyatt’s new album and tour (pictured to the right) as well as some promotional posters for it to pull out distinct elements to copy onto the shirt by hand. I then hand-sewed on the fire-red fringe. See the video for the front of the shirt (which includes the title of the tour, the neon mountains and clouds from the background of the painting, and Wyatt’s signature “WF” on the collar) as well as a more detailed look at the back.

I would love to use my eye for fashion as well as my creative skills to make one-of-a-kind wearable art for artists and musicians around the world.

Custom painted cowboy hat with nods to Johnny Cash, Colter Wall, and Kenny Rogers. Can you spot all of them?