This Week on Trading Paints: July 4, 2025
News and updates from the world of Trading Paints from the past week.
Welcome to This Week on Trading Paints, the pulse on what’s happening in the Trading Paints world while you’re enjoying a hot dog.
💡July Artist Spotlight: Emily Butler Lue
Co-owner of LUE Creative, Emily Butler Lue, inspired the community by taking a side hustle and turning it into a full-time role in 2023 by doing what she loves at the intersection of motorsports and high-level creative. Read about Emily’s journey, her work, and advice to up-and-coming artists in this month’s Artist Spotlight.
🎮 A new Downloader Beta is available
We’ve released a new beta version of the Trading Paints Downloader featuring some enhancements around hosted racing sessions with AI Collections. Give version AI3 a try if you want to help us test out these updates and bug fixes, available on the Downloader Beta page.
🌟 Fresh Official Paints
Check out the latest Verified Official Paints posted this week in the Showroom.
🏎️ Staff Picks
Here’s a little bit of what caught the eye of the Trading Paints team this week.
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🏆 Paint of the Week
Community Manager Patrick selected Ugo Degani’s Ravenwest Motorsport Aston Martin — a take on the classic from Race Driver: GRID — as this week’s Paint of the Week.
Ravenwest Motorsport Aston Martin DBR9 GT1 from Ugo Degani. Images from Julian Madore.
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