03.20.15
Axalta Coating Systems has announced its 2015 Paint Outside the Can contest. The contest is an invitation to unleash creativity using any Axalta-branded coating system to paint and decorate an unused, standard one-gallon paint can. Auto body paint repair requires many skills – problem solving, troubleshooting, critical thinking and time management, to name a few. Axalta organized the contest to give its auto body customers an opportunity to use these skills in a fun, creative way and support their inner artists.
Submissions will be recognized and displayed via certain social media channels throughout the contest. At the end of the contest, which closes September 15, 2015, six “Celebrity Picks” will be made by industry celebrities who will vote for their favorites based on creativity, execution and degree of difficulty. In addition, six “Fan Favorites” will be chosen by fans based on the number of photo “likes” that these favorites received on Axalta’s Instagram page. Finally, one “Best-in-Show” grand prize winner will be selected from the six “Celebrity Picks”. The winning submissions will have opportunities to travel on tour to custom car shows throughout the United States in 2016. Select submissions may also be displayed by Axalta at the 2015 Specialty Equipment Market Association’s (SEMA) Show, as well as other events.
Axalta’s celebrity judges are:
Submissions will be recognized and displayed via certain social media channels throughout the contest. At the end of the contest, which closes September 15, 2015, six “Celebrity Picks” will be made by industry celebrities who will vote for their favorites based on creativity, execution and degree of difficulty. In addition, six “Fan Favorites” will be chosen by fans based on the number of photo “likes” that these favorites received on Axalta’s Instagram page. Finally, one “Best-in-Show” grand prize winner will be selected from the six “Celebrity Picks”. The winning submissions will have opportunities to travel on tour to custom car shows throughout the United States in 2016. Select submissions may also be displayed by Axalta at the 2015 Specialty Equipment Market Association’s (SEMA) Show, as well as other events.
Axalta’s celebrity judges are:
- Sam Bass, the first officially licensed artist of NASCAR
- JoAnn Bortles, an award-winning custom painter, airbrush artist, car builder, journalist and book author with more than 30 years of experience in the automotive industry
- Ron Coan, one of the leading painters in the automotive industry known for show- stopping creations with Mobsteel at SEMA to groundbreaking OEM concept cars
- Danny "Danny D" Galvez, a well-known custom automotive painter and pinstriper
- Paul Quinn, a respected airbrush and pinstriping artist and instructor in the custom paint industry
- Danny Taylor, formerly of Taylor's House of Color and a pinstripe master with a 39-year history in custom artistic automotive design