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Painting a Car Using Gravity and a Scaffold

Freehanding straight lines is hard, and those of you that are good at it have put in countless hours of practice. For nature, however, straight lines can be easy. The tendency of liquid to obey gravity and provide a flat surface, for instance, allowed us to create levels.

Brazilian artist Theo Pinto is exploiting liquid and gravity to create lines that, while not perfectly straight, would be supremely difficult to mimic freehand. Pinto took a Mini Cooper, set it completely vertical (hopefully after draining the fluids), then gave it a rather dramatic pinstriping job.

The overall effect is pretty darn cool.

I’m also digging that the surface he used to catch the drips unwittingly creates a second work of art.

Here’s a quick video showing the process:

That’s not automotive paint, by the way; as part of a marketing effort for the SinfulColors brand, Pinto used 120 gallons of their nail polish!