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She rented a studio on the by-pass in Warrenton. “I didn’t know very much about sign painting. Actually I was faking it all the way,” Leonard admitted. “But after a year, I had it down and I was cracking those signs out.”
In exchange for a logo she did for radio station WEER, Davette was given a set of special pens. She checked out a book on calligraphy from the library and she was off on a second commercial venture.
The combination business was a success but after two years, “I got tired of looking at the Golden Arches. I wanted to look at Old Rag instead,” she recalled. She’d discovered Rappahannock on an earlier sign painting job. “And I just loved it.” So three years ago, she moved to Flint Hill, continuing to commute to Warrenton at first.
But the sight of those Golden Arches, even during working hours, was too much. Last year, she opened her shop in the F.T. Valley where she could work gazing out at Old Rag instead.
“I’d built up a clientelle in Fauquier, mostly by word of mouth, and I had to start all over when I came out here. It’s been a struggle. No one knew I was even here,” she said, smiling. “But things are picking up,” Leonard added, waving her arm at the signs in various stages of completeness on easels and sawhorses around the shop.
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