About The Artist

Greg Rudy has been an artist and hot rod enthusiast for most of his life.  Some of his earliest memories are of the first Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars he got as a kid.  Crayons and markers soon followed, and the combination became the basis for the bug that Greg has been unable to shake ever since.  He eats, sleeps, and breathes all things KUSTOM and this is the inspiration for his art.  “I was always drawing hot rods or kustoms or cartoon monsters in school.  Some of my best work is now in the possession of former teachers……..or buried deep within the local landfill.  I’ve got it bad, just ask my wife.”

While acknowledging admiration for, and inspiration by, such artists as Ed ‘Big Daddy’ Roth, Kenneth ‘Von Dutch’ Howard, Von Franco, Craig Fraser, Doug Dorr, and a local striper by the name of Igor; Greg credits his dad, Will Rudy, as being his biggest influence and the source from which he inherited his natural talent.  “He was an extremely talented artist.  He could paint beautiful watercolor or oil portraits and then turn right around and draw a cartoon sketch of an Ed Roth type hot rod; doing a nasty burnout, with a big hairy hand coming out of the top of it, grabbing a Hurst shifter.  He did this stuff out of his head and I became familiar with Ed Roth’s work as a result.  Dad was a drag racer and hot rodder from back in the day; so he’d take my brother and I, to the hobby store, buy a couple of models and teach us how to build them around our kitchen table.  Painting them was, and still is, my favorite part.”

Greg has had very little formal art training, with the exception of the Airbrush Action Getaways.  “If college had offered a curriculum like that, I probably would’ve become one of those life-long students.  I probably would’ve stayed in school”.  Through the Getaways, Greg has had the opportunity to meet and learn from several other influential artists.  Some of those artists include Craig Fraser, Steve VanDemon, Robert Benedict, “Cross-Eyed” Blake McCully, Jonathan Panteleon, Javier Soto, Tom Prewitt, and Terry Hill, just to name a few.    

Initially established as a part-time venture in the spring of 2001; Sundance Graphics allowed Greg the opportunity to delve into his hot rod inspired art.  Opportunities came slowly at first, but eventually began to increase.  With encouragement from family and friends, Sundance Graphics became a full-time venture. Greg was finally able to dedicate himself to the career he’d always wanted.

In 2009, Greg was recognized for his work with a House of Kolor Prestigious Painter Award. The subject was a custom painted golf cart and was featured in the House of Kolor 2009 Prestigious Painter Award Calendar, along with eleven other national and international artists.

If you can’t find him in his shop, with airbrush or striping brush in hand, then you’ll probably find him on the road, with Kristy and the boys, in their ’57 Chevy.

Phone Number:
(757)238-3436

Email Address:
greg@sundancegrafix.com