Lacquerol® paint projects

I first used Lacquerol® when asked by a Cadillac promotional company if I would be interested in airbrushing an Escalade at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival with a removable paint.

Lacquerol® is made by Aqua Flow Products, maker of fine airbrush textile paints, in Carrollton, Georgia (http://www.aquaflow.com/).

Lacquerol® looks and acts just like the lacquers of old, but being alcohol based, it is removable with ethyl alcohol, leaving the original painted surface unharmed and clean. What this means is that you can paint whatever you want on a vehicle, then wipe it off easily. You can even sand and buff a Lacquerol® clear top coat and it will look like lacquer, that is, deep and glossy. The coolest thing about Laquerol® is that the stuff is durable, so it won't come off in the rain and as long as you don't hit it with a high-pressure blast of water, it holds on very well.

The possibilities of applying this type of paint are endless, from decorating a car with graphics and murals to promoting a company at a big event or competing against vinyl wraps in doing graphics for commercial vehicles.

So, let's take a look at my first experience with this product at the SoBe Wine & Food Festival:














The art director and myself decided to keep it simple and understated for this event, but for the next one, at the Artesamerica art festival in Miami Beach this past weekend, we went for a bolder look with a more artistic feel. I proposed doing something with the iconic Frida Kahlo, so I copied her most expensively sold work, "Roots", and did a portrait of her in her younger days. I also tried painting directly on the glass, as well.