ART was my weakest subject at school. And here I was at Axalta’s training facility on the outskirts of Bangkok, learning about colours, cromas, coatings, tints and tones. The other attendees were all “old birds” in Singapore’s body-shop business, whereas this colourless spring chicken could barely manage the marker pens and whiteboard during an office meeting.
This was an art class that also required me to have a grasp of chemistry and mathematics. Whatever I learned about these difficult subjects at school, I left it there, so I grasped at straws during the theory lessons on binders, primers, fillers, thinners, surfacers, hardeners, whatevers…
There was even a bit of CSI (crime scene investigation), because, according to the trainer, Chris Ortega: “Paint spectra is like fingerprints – every one is different,…
