The Chosen One. Ish
This weekend despite the good weather I spent most of the day sanding, and painting Sweet Pea. Well. I thought picking a color would be easy. But one persons version of Sea Foam is completely different than another’s. Especially when it’s your wife’s. This is like that purple or gold dress thing.
So I just kept ordering paint until it matched what she thought seafoam is. And yes.. There are swatches, but nothing works that easily when it comes to real life. And these colors completely change in relation to the other colors around them.
Years of color theory and 35 years of being a designer, were no help when it comes to “her” boat. So after getting one coat of a close sea foam. And warmer white. Done…. SKREECH.. To dark, too yellow.
So here it is. We gave up on names about ten shades ago, and now just refereed to as #4
Please, I want to just varnish!
Wait until you have a cloudy day and then #4 will be too light!
I’m colorblind so looks good to me.
It’s a great day to be color blind😎
Maybe she was just keeping you out of her hair. “No honey stay out there and repaint it again.”
Good thing you didn’t pick #2 – that looked like sh..
It is a nice color but doesn’t pop. You may be at it again.
hartwell show in georgia was great!
nice weather, very nice boats and the best people.
i thought it was cool having all the young kids paint on an old wood boat hull – fun stuff
Now your going to have to paint the trim on the house to match “Sweat” Pea.
Good Luck!
so when the boat is finished, you could polish the piling tops, and varnish the pilings, would make #4pop
Depending on my monitor, #4 looks like a daphne blue with a touch of seafoam, more blue, or more green. Then I made the mistake of checking with my sunglasses on and it hit me!
Why repaint the entire boat? Just adjust the tint on the Boatresses glasses until she likes the color! Too green? Here, try these glasses. Too blue now? How about these?
P.s. I live the idea of varnished pylons! I would skip the decking though as it might get slick in rain…does it ever rain in Reedville?
You’re going to have to change the name from Sweet Pea to Sweet Foam or Sea Foam, or better yet Beer Foam.
I think she looked pretty good in primer.
Please consider Hâteras white, Hull and cabin, varnished teak (7 coats) and Navy blue waterline stripe. It’s a trawler. Dignified
Al