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An ordinary day goes by and a single event or object and be a form inspiration to someone out there. For me that everyday object is something we see thousands of everyday, and something we get into everyday; the automobile. Not simply just a car, but mainly the paint scheme of the car. There are thousands of various types of paints out there that we see these cars in, but to the un trained eye they're simply just primary color. We see cars as a basic white, black, blue, red, silver, etc. but what you don't notice is that each manufacture and each car has it's own different paint code. How does this inspire me? I find inspiration through forms of colors, just seeing these things everyday in the street and realizing that there's a sense of difference in them is inspiring enough for me. The simple cars we see can just have a normal shade of paint; an example would be “Taffeta White” from the Honda Company. We would just see this as a normal spectrum white, but the same car also comes in a similar looking coat of paint, however this one includes pearl in the paint; which Honda calls “Premium Pearl White,” where the pearl gives it an astonishing and elegant glow to it. It’s not just the paint scheme that’s inspiring it’s the thought of mixing various types of paint together to get the overall color is inspiring to me as well. The technique of getting a custom color or just trying to match that color just right is very hard to uphold, because through this process there are so many factors. Should I add a hint of blue or red? There are so many variations of color one can play with in the aspects of painting cars, and that’s what is really inspiring me.