Bel race helmet I designed and painted for a woman of races sports cars. She came up with the concept and I refined it to work on her race helmet in the colors she requested. The design is a tattoo style heart over a purple base color. Not often you see race helmet design’s for female racers so this was a fun helmet to be involved in. To protect the artwork three coats of [...]
Arai race helmet is a three-color race helmet design with white pinstripe. Sometimes it is the simple designs that work best and what the client is comfortable with. The base colors were overspray with House of Kolor FX paint corresponding to the base color. In the sun this helmet will look killer. The design was clients I just had to make it fit on his helmet and add the PEO kit, rear wing, on the [...]
Bell RS7 race helmet design I custom painted for Diego Ferrari who race’s McLaren for McLaren of Philly. This was a very interesting fun project that had to be completed in a very short time frame. I sort of specialize in doing short time frame race helmets designs and don't mind working long hours to meet deadlines. The design was fairly complex, with the short time frame I had to get it completed it [...]
G-force race helmet custom design was done as a gift the client was giving to a business associate. Incorporated into the design he wanted the associates business Steel Equities construction, his favorite cigar, children's names, money. That is a lot to include in a helmet design but I was able to come up with a helmet design the client loved. The crane and steel building was the main object of the design with everything [...]
Sparco race helmet x-ray design I designed and painted for Doctor Greg Miller. The theme is an X-Ray skull with gears, bolts in the brain areas requested by Doc Miller. Greg races a Porsche so we included the Porsche logo in the front but not so it really stood out brightly. This is one of the most popular helmet designs I have done over the years. I'm often asked to do this same design for potential [...]
Stilo helmet design I'm working on. These are progress pictures, at this point, I'm installing the PED kit after painting it. Installing a PED kit, the rear wing on a helmet, is time-consuming. It needs to match the design on the helmet exactly to look professionally done. Before even laying the design out on the helmet you must find the correct position on the helmet the wing will be. Once you have that the [...]
This is my video showcasing some of the race helmets I have designed and painted. To get started on your race helmet contact me now! Text or call 1-352-361-3403 Don Johnson.
I custom painted Diego's brand new Bell RS7 helmet for him and it came out killer. Diego has racing in his blood from karts to cars he often ends up on the on the podium. His helmet was a fairly complex design which I had to complete in a very short time frame. It actually was a a fun project even with the short time to complete. Diego races McLaren's for McLaren of Philly [...]
My son Cody Johnson started racing karts at an early age moving from karts to Legend cars, modified mimi stock, sportsman and finally open wheel modified. No matter what the out come of any race I was and I'm very proud of him, he always gave it his best. I grew up racing motorcross but his calling was to race karts, cars on the local asphalt tracks here in central Florida. In karts he [...]
I've been working on publishing more race helmet forms or helmet design templates up on the site you can use to draw your helmet designs ideas out on. So far I have Bell race helmets and Arai race helmet paint forms up and will be working on getting more up soon. I hope you choose me as your helmet painter but regardless of that please feel free to use any of the paint forms, helmet [...]