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I love the color...I have been experimenting with glazes that will reflect the Biscayne Bay, which is my view. It is closer to turquoise than the french paint, but I don't want to overwhelm the room. Any suggestions? Bella

Since we are talking about blue, what shade of blue would give the effect of a sky ?

Visualise this - the sandy beach, the overgrown grass and the blue sky - brings on a blissful feeling to any beach goer

I also like the red door contrasted against it.
Good juxtaposition, but I can't think of a beach reference for the red? Cooked lobster? JK!

Sassy: coral! Don't forgot the effect of the light on these colors, which partly explains why they look so extraordinary in context but are hard to recreate in our more temperate climate (though I don't know about TODAY! Whew!).

Oh, yum. The shutters in the second picture are a similar color to what I'm planning to put on the walls in my study/lounge. I like seeing how great the dark red door looks, since I'm planning on incorporating some stronger colors. Good to see how it can work.

I always look forward to Color Therapy.

I love the color, but I think it would be near impossible to duplicate. Look how luminous it is and take into account the age of the paint and the location -- it's probably a different paint formulation than you can get here.

Also -- Bella -- paint the color of Biscayne Bay? I'm not against it. In fact, I think it's one of the most beautiful bodies of water in the world and worth duplication.

But to me, the most amazing part of the bay was how it changed colors depending on the date and time. I grew up in Florida and worked at WSVN-7 -- literally on the bay. I never saw it the same color twice.

Just my 2 cents

Oh great - now I have this sudden urge to chuck work and go to France on holiday. Immediately. :)

Mark,
I love these posts! They are one of my favorite parts of AT.
Blue traditionally was/is used around windows and doors to keep out bad spirits. At least, that's the explanation given for the tradition of blue door frames and window sills on southwestern adobes. I think it has its roots in Catholicism.

I JUST GOOGLED Biscayne Bay and the color blue is different in every single picture. if you're trying glazes, what about a blueish blue for the base and a greenish blue for the glaze coat?? flip through the Ben Moore classic deck--i like saturated colors, but those that are complex, like a greenish blue with a drop of grey, rather than bright turquoise.

To recreate a sky color, i would think something robin's egg. i don't like too primary or too cerulean, it's the impression or suggestion you're after and i find a drop of green in a blue makes it more whimsical. i can't name a color here, it's all relative to your light, architecture, furniture &c. Just used 680 opal essence for the sky/base in a riviera mural i'm working on, but see that's off a green tint. however, w/ the brown tile &c here it's the perfect thing.

yes the light is impossiblely beautiful in provence, and around the mediterranean in general, it's like you're always looking at everything through a photoshop filter. that's why impressionist painters flocked there, the vivid colors. certainly the paints are different there, will do a post on my first Fine Paints of Europe experience after i finish my travelogue.

so nice. hard to believe someone actually lives in these idealic homes.

The sky is a lot of shades of blue. There's the beach at sunrise, the beach at midmorning, midday, midafternoon, evening, sunset and twilight.