Painter's Touch multi-purpose paint, Apple Red Gloss, circa 1998: formerly owned by Lady Pink

This can of Painter’s Touch, formerly owned by Lady Pink, was  part of a line of spray paint manufactured by Rust-Oleum.  Graffiti writers had long favored Rust-Oleum paint for its thickness.  Early in the 1990s Rust-Oleum introduced its American Accents line.  It was comparable to the original Rust-Oleum in thickness but was available in a greater variety of colors and was less expensive.  Then in the late 1990s, Rust-Oleum introduced a new line of paints, Painter’s Touch, which according to Pink gave an even better choice of colors at a lower price than the original Rust-Oleum paint. Street art and graffiti hold cultural significance in the way they help artists express their individuality and critique political, cultural, social, and economic issues, as a subculture with a message.

Lady Pink (Sandra Fabara, b. 1964), is an Ecuadorian-American graffiti and mural artist. Her career focused on using graffiti and murals as acts of rebellion, empowering women and self-expression. Lady Pink’s name was chosen for her aesthetics because the name “Pink” is feminine and she wanted other artists to know that she was a girl. She started calling herself Lady Pink because of her love of historical romances, England, the Victorian period, and the aristocracy. Lady Pink was nicknamed the "first lady of graffiti," because she was one of the first active women in the early 1980s New York City subway graffiti subculture.