Hello I am Sam Bass a motorsports artist known for being NASCAR's first officially licensed artist lifelong NASCAR fan and I began working on designing drivers' cars paint schemes with Bobby Allison in 1988 and later I designed various paint schemes for drivers like Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt, and designed and painted dozens of Race program covers for races at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, and others. I died on February 16, 2019, at the age of 57, of a kidney disease