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Last year the former owner and editor of Greenpointers website, Jen G. Pywell took into her head that she needs to learn how to hand-paint signs. Speak of strange ways of creativity. She was cold-calling shops all over Brooklyn and Queens asking looking for someone to teach her this old-fashioned craft. After a while, she came across Artistic Neon in Ridgewood. She asked if Robbie, the owner could teach her hand sign painting but Robbie said that his sign guy doesn’t work out of the shop any longer. “Hand sign painting is also a dying art,” Jen noted. Relentlessly she proceeded to ask him if he could teach her Neon Sign Making, to which Robbie said no again but invited her to the shop.