Louis Santos Tattoo Blog
Alex Ferguson Manchester United Portrait Paint.
As I love football, I have a business painting football t-shirts, called Football Hype. I also like to read books about people who I admire their achievements, Alex Ferguson is an example of leadership, hard work and victories, so I bought his autobiography to read. While reading his book, I painted a Manchester United t-shirt with Sir Alex Ferguson’s portrait. I was happy with the outcome, I end up framing it, and putting it up for sale.
The guys I work with, had an idea of giving the paint to the landlord, as he is a Manchester United fan. So after we gave him the paint, he mentioned he knew Alex Ferguson personally. He had this idea, of asking Alex Ferguson to sign the paint and donating it to charity.
I thought it was a great idea, as it was going to be donated to cancer research charity. As much I was happy about the paint being donated, I wouldn’t imagined it would raised £2,800 for the cause. Which I was even more happy about, and I wouldn’t imagined be happy to donate even more in the future.
When our land lord gave the paint to Alex Ferguson, he explained to him the portrait was painted on a Manchester United t-shirt, because a lot of people when they look at it, they don’t realise the paint is on a physical t-shirt. I have to of course, stretch the t-shirt, to make sure it’s possible to paint on the surface, I transfer the image to the t-shirt and start the paint process.
When you do art and tattoos in Manchester out of love, everything else flows, I never expected for this to happen, I did the portrait just for fun and joy, and it end up being signed by the person himself I painted , and donated to charity, which it made me even happier.
Thanks Stuart for giving the paint to Alex Ferguson and making this happen.
