Bluejacket Sign Company

Bluejacket Sign Company "Paint ages. Vinyl dies." My name is James-Roy Thomas. My passion for hand painted signs started in July 2012. My company is called "Bluejacket Sign Company".

While recovering from a herniated disc in my neck, I discovered an ad campaign for Jack Daniels that featured Derek McDonald hand painting a sign on an old truck door. After several views and hours of google searches I have fully emerged myself into the art and craft of the hand painted sign industry. I took a two day class with Damon Styer in September 2012 at New Bohemia Signs in San Francisco a

nd learned the basic brush handling skills and went home with a booklet and one Mack lettering quill. Well, I actually left my brush at the shop and they were so kind to mail
it back to me. With tremendous help from Sean Starr of Starr Studios and other hand letterers such as Colt Bowden and Derek McDonald, I have been learning and progressing everyday in the craft of sign writing. Now that I am fully recovered, I have been constantly painting signs and working on my lettering skills. My girlfriend came up with the name on a recent trip in February 2013 down to San Diego to visit friends. It was what they used to call Navy sailors back in the 1940's. I even have an original Bluejackets Manual from that era. A hand painted sign company might sound like a pipe dream but to me It is something I am constantly thinking about and stay up late researching. This endeavor is something that I have thought out for quite some time and although one might not think there is much of a demand out there, there is a respect and admiration I believe that can be appreciated by someone who creates things with their own bare hands and is not spit out by a machine. My goal is to spread the word and work of sign painters and hand letterers to my community and abroad and to give the respect it well deserves. Bluejacket Sign Company's goal is to create custom hand made signs and spread the knowledge and the beauty of the craft of sign painting.

Around this time last year for .seoul. Great food. Great people. Thanks again!
03/04/2026

Around this time last year for .seoul. Great food. Great people. Thanks again!

13 years ago I built this mobile sign painting cart. It could fit all your paints, boards, and brushes inside and when p...
03/04/2026

13 years ago I built this mobile sign painting cart. It could fit all your paints, boards, and brushes inside and when propped up was an easel so I could paint on site. I rode it to one farmers market. Then it got stolen out of my carport of my apartment in Costa Mesa. I slept in cab of my truck that night with a wooden baseball bat ready to unleash hell. Sadly they never came back and my creation was gone. I had a vision. I created it. It’s gone. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.

For those that didn’t believe us. This is the shopping cart and I used to pattern out of on a job together. No ladder,...
02/22/2026

For those that didn’t believe us. This is the shopping cart and I used to pattern out of on a job together. No ladder, no problem. We get s**t done.

I write notes on my steering wheel with a Stabilo. Mostly it’s like “clock in, get gas, help the kids off the roof” stuf...
02/13/2026

I write notes on my steering wheel with a Stabilo. Mostly it’s like “clock in, get gas, help the kids off the roof” stuff like that. But on occasion I’ll write something to keep me motivated.

Good to do some local murals in HB. This one is for our little league . Kids came by to help for a bit too. “If you pain...
02/11/2026

Good to do some local murals in HB. This one is for our little league . Kids came by to help for a bit too. “If you paint it, they will come””. ⚾️

01/27/2026

Seal Beach mural.

Finished mural for a great client in Seal Beach today. So much fun to paint. Would love to do more of these. Please reac...
01/26/2026

Finished mural for a great client in Seal Beach today. So much fun to paint. Would love to do more of these. Please reach out if you’re interested.

01/02/2026

Good way to fill drywall anchor holes prior to spackle. Disposable earplugs.

“Peanut”. 9”x12” oil on canvas. Did a red stain and a little under painting here. Really happy how warm this cat looks. ...
12/22/2025

“Peanut”. 9”x12” oil on canvas. Did a red stain and a little under painting here. Really happy how warm this cat looks.

12/14/2025

Hand painted banner for my brothers fundraiser tomorrow at the with

Let’s go! Please donate whatever you can. Thank you !
12/06/2025

Let’s go! Please donate whatever you can. Thank you !

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Huntington Beach, CA
92605, 92615, 92646–92649

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