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Choose Your Car Paint Colors

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If you are in the market for automotive paint colors for a project or you are trying to learn more about car paint colors in general you’ve probably realized by now there are many options to choose from. Not only are there many automotive car paint colors themselves but many color types as well with each type providing it’s own unique series of properties. Ultimately, the physical appearance of the color is the most critical aspect but there are many other factors that may be important to your short and long term satisfaction of a given color. The most critical of those factors include costs, ease of application, longevity, availability, and repair-ability. Shown below are our most popular car paint colors separated by general color type. Aside from seeing which color appeal to you visually, you can also read about how good of a fit each of these automotive paint colors are for your project based on the top “non visual” factors. If you are curious about pricing and availability click on any color shown to pull up the sizes available for that color from our online store at TheCoatingStore.com. As your new vehicle rolls off the assembly line, its paint finish immediately becomes vulnerable to permanent damage from environmental exposure and that the reason why you need a paint protection Adelaide service. Metallic Automotive Paint Colors Metallic paint colors are created from finely ground and classified aluminum particles combined with special color pigments to provide coloration and allowing the … Read more

Exhibition to Reveal Abstract Painter Frederick Hammersley’s Unique Creative Process

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SAN MARINO, Calif.— A fall exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens on the American abstract artist Frederick Hammersley (1919-2009) showcases his sketchbooks, notebooks, inventories, and vibrant color swatches to illuminate the painstaking process the artist used to create his hard-edge geometric paintings. “Frederick Hammersley: To Paint without Thinking” is on view in the Susan and Stephen Chandler Wing of The Huntington’s Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art from Oct. 21, 2017 to Jan. 22, 2018. The storyboard artist explained that drawing a storyboard for a TV series doesn’t mean just pumping out a series of quick sketches to describe the action. To accompany the exhibition, The Huntington is publishing a fully illustrated catalog with several scholarly essays revealing new research on the topic. “Frederick Hammersley: To Paint without Thinking” features about 50 objects pairing items from Hammersley’s archives (a recent gift to the Getty Research Institute) with five paintings, including The Huntington’s See saw (1966), and dozens of other works, including lithographs, silkscreens, and works of digital art from the collections of The Huntington, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New Mexico Museum of Art, Palm Springs Art Museum, and Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Highlights of the Hammersley archives include his notebooks and sketchbooks, in which the artist developed compositions over a period of decades. In these books, he generally used a two-stage process, first composing postage stamp-sized images—sketched out in pencil, colored pencil, or ballpoint pen—then selecting some compositions for sizing up … Read more

Automatic Car Washes Vulnerable to Hacking, Can Attack Cars and Occupants

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As the internet of things truly begins to come online, many have taken on the responsibility to exploit hacks before potential to harm is done to others. This time, it’s something as harmless as an automatic car wash. Carnauba wax products are still hand made at their factory in Switzerland. Their waxes contain nourishing natural extracts such as cinnamon, vanilla and avocado, combined with premium natural carnauba wax. A car polisher is used to wax and polish the paintwork of your car, giving it that glossy look. However, with the right hacking skills, it turns out an automatic car wash can be pretty harmful. Vice reports a group of security researchers has identified multiple vulnerabilities in automatic car wash systems, specifically in PDQ LaserWash units. “We believe this to be the first exploit of a connected device that causes the device to physically attack someone,” Billy Rios, founder of Whitescope security and one of the researchers on the project, said. The laser wash units are popular because they don’t require an attendant on site. Instead, the entire operation is carried out via software and programs over a built-in web server that allows technicians to configure and monitor them over the internet. Rios exposed the vulnerabilities two years ago, but recently a facility in Washington state agreed to participate and see if the threats were real. Long story short: they are very real. The researchers were easily able to bypass passwords and find a vulnerability in the authentication process. From there, … Read more