The icon of the Las Vegas Strip has now been created as a FantaSign, a customizable art print from Anthony Ross Studio.

The Las Vegas Sign was first created in 1959 by designer Betty Willis. It stands outside the main strip, just south of the first hotels, well at least for now. The city is growing so fast and far that now the hotels have moved beyond the unofficial entrance to Las Vegas.

The sign never had a marquee, and since customization is what we do, we added one!

The Las Vegas Fantasign is available in 4 sizes and either on canvas or paper, framed or unframed. It is a pigmented art print on archival medium and signed by the artist.

You can customize the marquee any way you like, announcing a wedding, party, or become a special guest of the most facinating city in the world.

The image above is the print on paper, matted and framed.

Game Room (A) Available 16″x20″, 24″ x 30″, 30″x40″

This was the one that started it all. FantaSigns are unique art prints where you can customize the final piece. “Game Room” was our first print we produced over two years ago.

I started FantaSigns as a way to provide my collectors with art that resembled my original acrylic on canvas paintings but without me painting the same image over and over (artists hate repeating things). I had received interest in signs with people’s names but finding actual signs with these names was going to be nearly impossible.

So using state-of-the-art computer graphics software from Strata Corporation I recreated elements of these cool neon signs to create the final FantaSign print. Most people think this is mostly done in Photoshop however there is actually very little photoshop involved, and none of it having to to with creating the customized portion of the print. As this blog continues I will go into how FantaSigns are created.

To purchase “Game Room” please click here

Our FantaSigns® are unique fine art prints where the buyer becomes part of the picture. Each print comes with a customizable marquee and, in addition, some FantaSigns have a special place to add a name, for example in our “Deco Theater” print above the name “Burns” can be changed to any name you choose. There are over 20 different Fantasign images to choose from on our FantaSigns web site.

In addition, we have partnered with the Walt Disney Company and provide six additional FantaSigns available exclusively Disney Company’s official web shopping site DisneyShopping.com.

In future posts I will provide some insight into how these unusual images originated and how they are created. I can’t tell you everything (company secrets, you know) but I can give you some interesting background into the creation of a FantaSign. If you have any questions please post them and I will be happy to answer them.