Hobby Thread - May 23, 2026 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) decided on a color theme for this Hobby Thread.

A color theme? What does that mean? Colors are a "hobby"? The ways of the Wheel are strange and mysterious but there is a method to the madness.

[Top Photo: Benjamin Moore Paint Color Fan Deck. Yours for only $30]

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What are you hobbying?

As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. All (legal) hobbying is welcome. We have a theme, but no need to stick with the theme. Even if the theme does not speak to you, find something else or offer something else relating to hobbying. Leave politics and religion to threads elsewhere (unless your hobby is building or restoring a church). Pants are optional. As always, puns are welcome and encouraged.

Play nice and do not be rude. Do not be a troll and do not feed the trolls.

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Why are we talking colors? Could it be that so many hobbies involve colors? Paintings, photography, crafts, stained glass, furniture, knitting, cross stitch, and more. "What color should this be?" "What color goes with this?"

Or maybe TRex did a color theme for the Wednesday ONT and had overflow content... We'll never know. Hey! Look, a squirrel! Anyway...

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This photo is from Hobby Lobby, but I will bet that at least a few among the Horde have something similar in their personal stash of hobbying materials:

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Remember these?

When TRex was a youngster, kids with 64 crayon boxes were living large.

Apparently 120 crayons is the big box these days...

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How crayons are made:

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Matchy, matchy:

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Matching paint:

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Making your own milk paint? Guess so.

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Untitled Blue Monochrome, 1956
Yves Klein

I don't get it.

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Anyone wise in the ways of dying fabric? Me neither.

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Your brain "interprets" color? Apparently so.

Why the world couldn't agree on the color of "the dress"

I already don't trust my own brain for other reasons (such as "good" judgement). This doesn't help.

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Colorful origami stars:

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The official Barbie Pink color is recognized as Pantone 219 C. The most commonly cited Hex code is #E0218A. (HEX codes are a standard digital color format based on the RGB color model.)

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I can't find official numbers, but the M&Ms color mix for plain chocolate candy is believed to contain:
24% Blue
20% Green
16% Orange
14% Yellow
13% Red
13% Brown

Why Were Red M&M's Discontinued for a Decade?

In 1976, Mars, the candy company that makes M&M's, eliminated the red version of the candies from their mix. This decision came as a result of public controversy surrounding a synthetic dye called FD&C Red No. 2, also known as amaranth. The dye was used in red food coloring and was linked to cancer in a 1971 Russian study.
The Food and Drug Administration's subsequent tests produced inconclusive results in humans, but found that it caused malignant tumors in female rats . The FDA concluded that the food colorant could not be presumed to be safe for human consumption and banned it in 1976.
"The red food coloring in question was not actually used in M&M's chocolate candies," according to mms.com. "However, to avoid consumer confusion, the red candies were pulled from the color mix."
Afraid that worried shoppers would steer clear of M&M's altogether if the bags contained anything red, Mars removed the red candies from production and replaced them with orange M&M's.
Mars reintroduced red M&M's, but kept orange in the bag, in 1987, once the panic surrounding anything red had passed.

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Ansel Adams is well known for his black and white photography of Yosemite. Don't think I've ever seen a photo of Ansel Adams though. Here is such a photo (naturally, in black and white).

Photo credit: wikipedia

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Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week? We did an church theme. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.

Notable comments from last week:

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Words of wisdom:

"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).

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If you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, contribute your own. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Do mighty things.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 05:30 PM

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1 Welcome hobbyists

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 05:31 PM (Ia/+0)

2 White!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:31 PM (1Ff7Z)

3 Oops. Wrong answer.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:31 PM (1Ff7Z)

4 These days anyway.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:33 PM (1Ff7Z)

5 I did find air dry clay, which I need to carve the medallion I want to make, then when dry use to pour molten metal in.
The clay will be easy to carve and repair and do again if needed.

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 05:34 PM (Ia/+0)

6 Afternoon, hobby people,

This is a rather apt topic. Earlier today I went to the Sherwin-Williams site and was playing with their "Paint a Photo" feature. You pick various colors for a palette, then click on an area in the photo -- living room, kitchen, bedroom, exterior, etc. -- to see what it would look like on a room or house similar to yours. Or, they say, you can upload a photo of your own. I might do that and see if the software will let me change the colors in the areas I want.

I like light blue walls for bedroom and living room, and a deeper sort of grayish blue for the exterior, with white trim and a red door. For some reason I think a red door is cool.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 05:34 PM (wzUl9)

7 I did a painting called Complementary which obviously was about complementary colors. You can see the painting in my nic.

Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2026 05:35 PM (qrzX6)

8 Did you know that Roy G Biv is a friend of Jason D?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:36 PM (1Ff7Z)

9 Don't think I've ever seen a photo of Ansel Adams though.

I'm sure you have. He was the premiere photographer of the Western States and National Parks.

You've seen this undoubtedly.
Half Dome, Yosemite
https://tinyurl.com/mn38ub66

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 23, 2026 05:36 PM (diia5)

10 Color is very important if you do original artwork. Gotta get the balance right or everything looks smushed.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 23, 2026 05:37 PM (CHHv1)

11 I like light blue walls for bedroom and living room, and a deeper sort of grayish blue for the exterior, with white trim and a red door. For some reason I think a red door is cool.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 05:34 PM (wzUl9)

Any house in particular, yet?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:38 PM (1Ff7Z)

12 Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 23, 2026 05:36 PM (di

I think he meant the man himself.

Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2026 05:38 PM (qrzX6)

13 If this medallion works, painting a buff color strap white will be the last thing I need.
It's for a black powder cartridge pouch, Europeans mostly used white belts, a reenactment Virginia Revolutionary soldier I saw had a buff belt, guessing that's what it was made for.

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 05:39 PM (Ia/+0)

14 9 Don't think I've ever seen a photo of Ansel Adams though.

I'm sure you have. He was the premiere photographer of the Western States and National Parks.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 23, 2026 05:36 PM
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Seen his photos, yes. Seen him? Less common.

Posted by: TRex - photo editor dino at May 23, 2026 05:39 PM (IQ6Gq)

15 Are we allowed to call them colored samples?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 05:40 PM (zZu0s)

16 Polynikes it didn't work, at least for me

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 05:41 PM (Ia/+0)

17 colors: women vs men

https://tinyurl.com/2vkwawut

Posted by: yara at May 23, 2026 05:41 PM (WUJRe)

18 It's for a black powder cartridge pouch, Europeans mostly used white belts, a reenactment Virginia Revolutionary soldier I saw had a buff belt, guessing that's what it was made for.
Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 05:39 PM (Ia/+0)

Maybe it was easier to make something buff instead of white?

Was buff considered to be something like skin tone? I remember as a kid I saw a painting of G. Washington and his family, and I thought he wasn't wearing any pants! Then I noticed the pants were buff colored.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:41 PM (1Ff7Z)

19 Roy G Biv is a person of color.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2026 05:41 PM (Cqx++)

20 Polynikes it didn't work, at least for me
Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 05:41 PM (Ia/+0)

Thanks for letting me know. I dont know how to fix it .

Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2026 05:43 PM (qrzX6)

21 Posted by: yara at May 23, 2026 05:41 PM (WUJRe)

Or, designers vs. regular people.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:43 PM (1Ff7Z)

22 Long ago, haven't seen it it years, had a photo book of Ansel

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 05:43 PM (Ia/+0)

23 Per our discussion last night about west Texas, i went looking for an image of a thunderstorm several miles away in the desert. My initial results: a shit ton of AI fake ass shit.

I really wish I had had a good camera back when I was a kid. They are really amazing to see.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 05:43 PM (zZu0s)

24 Seen his photos, yes. Seen him? Less common.
Posted by: TRex - photo editor dino

meh. All bald, old white guys look alike.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 23, 2026 05:44 PM (diia5)

25 One college class I took discussed the psychology of color. Some people think it's real, others think it's bunk.

Maybe in nature, but I don't know if a color on a wall gives the same feeling as leaves on a tree.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:44 PM (1Ff7Z)

26 This is unrelated to color, but I've never seen a photo of Ansel Adams that I can recall , but I am glad to see one here . He was a nice looking man

And I love the colored threads.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2026 05:46 PM (n3VHW)

27 Hiking through the Olympic National Rain Forest will offer more shades of green than you ever thought possible.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 05:47 PM (A5RD0)

28 I used to enjoy painting my plastic model assembly kits. Especially the custom cars, with spray paint. AMT had a "lacquer" spray; Pactra had an enormous range of colors, including some metalflake and candy colors; Testors didn't have as much range. I enjoyed considering the car, stock or custom, and deciding what kind of colors for body and interior suited it. A dark blue '65 T-Bird with a cream-colored interior, for instance; a white '64 Lincoln Continental convertible with a dark blue interior.

Once I built AMT's 1/25 scale Mercedes 300SL, the famous Gullwing, painting it a kind of metallic red (an AMT color, I think) with a black interior.

Later I got into sailing ships and modern military ships like subs. The last kits I built were Tamiya 1/35 scale German tanks, and without an airbrush I had a time creating camo pattern on the King Tiger tank.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 05:47 PM (wzUl9)

29 Thanks for letting me know. I dont know how to fix it .
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2026 05:43 PM (qrzX6)

Are you talking about the one with the birds, purple heart, and the road? Comes up for me on Brave.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:47 PM (1Ff7Z)

30 Ok, another thing about color: nurse and I were discussing Maui Jim sunglasses. Now, these are polarized lenses. One thing I have noticed is that colors seem much more vivid when wearing them (green of leaves for example.) I wonder how much of that is a function of cutting glare down to virtually nothing (less washed out) and how much is the polarization itself. Maybe THAT IS the polarization itself.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 05:47 PM (zZu0s)

31 Colors! I love colors since I was a very little girl, and am very fussy about them. I used them in my crafts, of course, but also in painting rooms in the current house to sell next year - and it needs to be just so!
Of course, then there will be the new house....never ending fun!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 05:48 PM (IQ6Gq)

32 It's no Rothko

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2026 05:48 PM (Cqx++)

33 Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:47 PM (1Ff7Z)

Yes

Hit or miss I guess

Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2026 05:48 PM (qrzX6)

34 Ansel Adams has a series of photos from the WW Eleven Japanese Internment Camps (tm). Very interesting and not what one would expect. Shorpy dot com had a number of them. Not sure if you can get the coffee table book though.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 05:49 PM (/lPRQ)

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An ardent conservationist since adolescence, from 1934 to 1971 Adams served as a director of the Sierra Club. (Later, in the 1980s, he explicitly and forcefully attacked the environmental policies of the very popular President Ronald Reagan and his secretary of the interior, James Watt.)

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2026 05:50 PM (Cqx++)

36 I like light blue walls for bedroom and living room, and a deeper sort of grayish blue for the exterior, with white trim and a red door. For some reason I think a red door is cool.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026
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Any house in particular, yet?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026

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Yes! A nice little 3BR-1 bath w/ garage in Terre Haute. I've been pre-approved for the loan. The inside has been done, and well, but I want to repaint the tan walls of living/dining room and main bedroom with a light blue. The exterior, the vinyl siding, can wait -- it's a kind of light gray now -- but some white trim touch up and that red door would be things I'd do early on.

It needs a front porch gutter replacement and has a couple of cracked windows, but it looks livable right from the start.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 05:51 PM (wzUl9)

37 4 Ansel Adams has a series of photos from the WW Eleven Japanese Internment Camps (tm). Very interesting and not what one would expect. Shorpy dot com had a number of them. Not sure if you can get the coffee table book though.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 05:49 PM (/lPRQ)

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/
collection/manz/

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 05:51 PM (zZu0s)

38 Man, I still get envy looking at those 64 crayon boxes. They had a built in crayon sharpener! I assume all the kids in my preschool that had them drive pretentious cars now and don’t signal.

Posted by: HappyFun at May 23, 2026 05:52 PM (CoQfd)

39 25 One college class I took discussed the psychology of color. Some people think it's real, others think it's bunk.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:44 PM
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There is some pretty interesting stuff on the interwebs on this. Didn't include much in the content, but fascinating subject.

Posted by: TRex - rods and cones dino at May 23, 2026 05:53 PM (IQ6Gq)

40 For those few hundred color's there are 10,000 names for them

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 05:53 PM (Ia/+0)

41 It needs a front porch gutter replacement and has a couple of cracked windows, but it looks livable right from the start.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 05:51 PM (wzUl9)

Sounds good. Now all you have to do is....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:54 PM (1Ff7Z)

42 It needs a front porch gutter replacement and has a couple of cracked windows, but it looks livable right from the start.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 05:51 PM
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Outstanding!

Posted by: TRex - handyman dino at May 23, 2026 05:54 PM (IQ6Gq)

43 Do you see a red door and want to paint it black?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2026 05:54 PM (Cqx++)

44 Ok, another thing about color: nurse and I were discussing Maui Jim sunglasses. Now, these are polarized lenses. One thing I have noticed is that colors seem much more vivid when wearing them (green of leaves for example.) I wonder how much of that is a function of cutting glare down to virtually nothing (less washed out) and how much is the polarization itself. Maybe THAT IS the polarization itself.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I have a pair of prescription sunglasses that I got all the option/upgrades on. Colors seems enhanced. Directly overhead on clear summer days the sky looks almost black / really deep navy blue.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 05:54 PM (/lPRQ)

45 Man, I still get envy looking at those 64 crayon boxes. They had a built in crayon sharpener! I assume all the kids in my preschool that had them drive pretentious cars now and don’t signal.
Posted by: HappyFun
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Oh, I wanted one of them badly...but no luck. Imagine all those crayons and the works of art they could have contributed to!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 05:55 PM (IQ6Gq)

46 As for car colors, I refuse to have a car with a dark interior. Yeah, I know the general wisdom, "Black doesn't show dirt." Maybe if you're a coal miner. Gray dirt shows up on black upholstery, all right. A cream interior looks larger inside and is cooler on a hot day. Plus it usually creates a strong contrast with the exterior. The Euro car makers still understand this and offer a couple of light shades; American car companies offer only tan, gray, and black.

I would have been willing to make an exception for a 1968 Mercedes 280SL I sat in at a dealer in Denver. The exterior was a kind of a dark silver, and the interior was -- chocolate brown! Great combo.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 05:55 PM (wzUl9)

47 There is some pretty interesting stuff on the interwebs on this. Didn't include much in the content, but fascinating subject.
Posted by: TRex - rods and cones dino at May 23, 2026 05:53 PM (IQ6Gq)

I can see it both ways, Rex, but the feeling you get sitting on a camp chair overlooking a lake with a bright blue sky above and mountains in the distance isn't the same as looking a blue living room wall.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:56 PM (1Ff7Z)

48 There is a very good book on color called The Secret Language of Color. It covers the science and nature of colors.

Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2026 05:57 PM (qrzX6)

49 Well, this is an unexpected topic but brilliant. Just starting to think about the way some of my hobbies use color:
- art especially, for me, pastels and colored pencils, how they look on various surfaces and how they blend.
- fly tying where the use of color, sometimes rather subtle, is at least as important as action.
- tone of the finish when dealing with wood - red or brown based can make a huge difference in bringing out the grain.
- photography where the arrangement and intensity of color makes a huge difference in effect - also how different films handle certain colors.

This is just off the top of my head.

Posted by: JTB at May 23, 2026 05:58 PM (yTvNw)

50 It needs a front porch gutter replacement and has a couple of cracked windows, but it looks livable right from the start.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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How exciting, congrats! If you are already picturing room colors, it must be the right one.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 05:58 PM (IQ6Gq)

51 47 the feeling you get sitting on a camp chair overlooking a lake with a bright blue sky above and mountains in the distance isn't the same as looking a blue living room wall.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:56 PM
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Agreed.

The part I find interesting is how much context your brain uses to conjure what you "see." It tries to help fill in gaps and make educated guesses.

Posted by: TRex - seeing eye dino at May 23, 2026 05:59 PM (IQ6Gq)

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https://www.loc.gov/pictures/
collection/manz/

Posted by: Aetius451AD

Just skimmed it.
Even got one of the job board.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 05:59 PM (/lPRQ)

53 It needs a front porch gutter replacement and has a couple of cracked windows, but it looks livable right from the start.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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How exciting, congrats! If you are already picturing room colors, it must be the right one.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026

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It's not perfect. I'd love to have the bathroom open into the main bedroom, for instance. And the garage, while it's a double, is out back; crossing from it to the back door with groceries in the rain won't be pleasant. Maybe I can put a covered walkway in. But the interior is roomy, there is a small basement, closets in the bedrooms upstairs, and even one of those 1960s-style windows in the kitchen that opens into the dining room -- like in Rob and Laura Petrie's house!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 06:01 PM (wzUl9)

54 Hey! Look, a squirrel! Anyway...
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Yes, I'm here...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 06:02 PM (gnNyN)

55 In theatre classes I learned that colors create emotional responses in the audience. Generally, greens and blues are "cool" colors, because we equate them with grass and water. Browns are sort of neutral. Reds, yellows, and oranges make us think of hot sunlight or fire. This is pretty obvious stuff, but Miss Linda insists there are "warm" greens and blues, and "cool" reds and yellows. I suppose that is a kind of subtle distinction I haven't learned about.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 06:04 PM (wzUl9)

56 I have a true story on colors and names.
See if can tell it short.
Millwork maker got order for a car dealer customer service desk s. The name was only a woman's name, not blue or in this case purple. They made and I picked up all this millwork and delivered and unloaded it. As car dealer employees slowly came in many laughs, joking wrong color. Finally a more supervision came in and not joking it was wrong color.
All had to be taken and remade as Millwork guy ordered a color with no reliability it was what he ordered.

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 06:04 PM (Ia/+0)

57 Hey! Look, a squirrel! Anyway...
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Yes, I'm here...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Excellent, now the party can start.....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 06:04 PM (IQ6Gq)

58 A long time ago in a city far away I spent a summer working at Meijer in Kalamazoo, MI.

Part of my job was mixing color for paint, which was interesting.

We had to consult a book for the recipe for each color and then we'd mix it according to "yanks" from the key dye dispensers (CMYK, I think). The base color was white and the more "yanks" of a certain tint were added, the deeper the color would be would be for that tint.

It was not an exact system.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 06:07 PM (gnNyN)

59 So glad you included Ansel Adams in the post. The blacks, whites, and HUGE scale of grays between them are as complex to deal with as all the other colors. This applies to photography but also pen and ink and graphite drawing.

Posted by: JTB at May 23, 2026 06:07 PM (yTvNw)

60 Speaking of colors, back in the Eighties there was a "Four Seasons" color fad in women's clothing and makeup. It applied to men as well, I understood. Winters, Springs, Summers, Autumns. I dropped Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 at the department store one Saturday to have her colors done -- a fair redhead with blue eyes; I suppose she was a Summer or Spring? When I walked in to pick her up, the stylist looked at me and said, "This must be The Autumn."

Fortunately I like autumn colors like rust and brown and green, and did even before I heard of that scheme.

Miss Linda is a classic Winter.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 06:08 PM (wzUl9)

61 Just skimmed it.
Even got one of the job board.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 05:59 PM (/lPRQ)

The guy doing the mural is pretty cool.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 06:09 PM (zZu0s)

62 I just put the finishing touches on 3 28mm figures. A Urak-Hai orc, a Female Cleric, and a goblin from the Slap tribe.

The Slap tribe is named after the blogs old friend, Slapweasel. These goblins specialize in pulling some of the best practical jokes ever invented.

Miss ya Slapweasel!!

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 23, 2026 06:10 PM (zBgIx)

63 Miss Linda is a classic Winter.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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I, too, am a Winter

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 06:11 PM (IQ6Gq)

64 58 A long time ago in a city far away I spent a summer working at Meijer in Kalamazoo, MI.

Part of my job was mixing color for paint, which was interesting.

It was not an exact system.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 06:07 PM
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Interesting summer job. Did you sell paint at a discount that customers didn't want or didn't quite turn out right?

Posted by: TRex - discount dino at May 23, 2026 06:12 PM (IQ6Gq)

65 Color related. When I had cataract surgery a couple of years ago I found that it didn't just restore acuity. It restored being able to fully see colors. The difference between pre and post surgery was staggering. Colors I hadn't seen properly in decades.

Posted by: JTB at May 23, 2026 06:13 PM (yTvNw)

66 I've been watching a guy on YT who uses violet and blue as filters on his models and it's amazing the depth those colors create.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at May 23, 2026 06:13 PM (h/O4U)

67 Interesting summer job. Did you sell paint at a discount that customers didn't want or didn't quite turn out right?
Posted by: TRex - discount dino at May 23, 2026 06:12 PM (IQ6Gq)
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I don't recall. It was decades ago...

It's pretty difficult to get paint to be an *exact* match because it changes color when it dries. The "yank" system seemed to work pretty well for most folks.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 06:14 PM (gnNyN)

68 Pretty sure I've never seen any of the "white" honeys. I wonder if it's determined by the specific species of bee or by what they forage on.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 23, 2026 06:16 PM (vTZFs)

69 Went through the military medical testing procedures as described in Alice's Restaurant those many years ago, and part of it was color blindness testing. IIRC, there were 24 circles of color with a number in it, which I failed to see in 22 out of the 24 circles.
Obviously, today's posting is not about one of my strengths. I asked the guy testing me whether that got me out of the draft. He said no, it got me into an open helicopter door as a spotter, since camouflage would bee less effective on me.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 23, 2026 06:17 PM (/VSxT)

70 Apparently color-blindness is far more common in men than women.

Something like 1 in 8 men suffer from a form of color-blindness.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 06:18 PM (gnNyN)

71 Thanks for another mighty colorful Hobby Thread, T Rex!

My color fan was only $15 at Sherwin Williams. Too many colors to contemplate...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 23, 2026 06:19 PM (D/6p1)

72 Paint companies used to give away those fan decks for free if you did enough business with them, I’ve still got a couple around. Mainly I went with Sherwin Williams.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 23, 2026 06:20 PM (U0opd)

73 The interior color of one of my cars is called "Stone". I call it gray. Mrs fd called it something else but I don't remember what it was. Anyway, why not just call it gray?

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:22 PM (vFG9F)

74 My picnic table outside and my computer room are painted a color called 'Cheerful' from Sherwin Williams.

It's a very nice bright yellow.

Didn't work today but it is beautiful.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 23, 2026 06:23 PM (Sco7b)

75 LOL! I'll bet I know what sparked this topic, TRex!
Color can make or break a painting, that's for sure. Knowing how to mix colors and not dilute them (presuming you want vivid, saturated color) is a teachable skill. And color plays a major part in the composition of any art piece. My current painting instruction/mentor is a wizard when it comes to handling color and since studying with him, my abilities jumped 200%. I'm now doing gallery-ready level work, not that I want to show in a gallery.

Got a favorite color? Mine is green, although green is actually one of the most difficult colors to wrangle in a painting. My least favorite color is blue (gasp).

Posted by: tankascribe at May 23, 2026 06:23 PM (NtoJk)

76 polynikes,
Question about 'Complementary'. Is there a subtle darkening of the background as you look from left to right? It's subtle and might have just been my monitor.

Interesting concept. The realism of the Purple Heart medal and the blue eye stood out for me.

Posted by: JTB at May 23, 2026 06:23 PM (yTvNw)

77 Color schemes?

Havta post this classic from Frasier:

https://youtu.be/gZAUXVw_TW4

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2026 06:23 PM (2Ez/1)

78 "Something like 1 in 8 men suffer from a form of color-blindness.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel"

A form? Like when I say a wall is white and I am informed that it is "Tibetan Snow"?

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:24 PM (vFG9F)

79 I used to have a bunch of color decks, too ....must have discarded them when we moved....had no idea they are charging now. I know that I've almost recreated certain color shades just from visiting my Benjamin Moore store and taking their samples

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 06:26 PM (IQ6Gq)

80
Pillow talk conversation.

Her: Why do you refer to my kids as crayons?

Him: Different colors from the same box.
.
.
.
*click*

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2026 06:26 PM (2Ez/1)

81 A form? Like when I say a wall is white and I am informed that it is "Tibetan Snow"?
Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:24 PM (vFG9F)
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There are various types, depending on which rods/cones are functioning in the eyeball.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 06:28 PM (gnNyN)

82 Me: That there color is yellow

Her: No, it's lemon custard.

Me: Lemon custard IS yellow.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:29 PM (vFG9F)

83 In the South, the ceiling of the front porch has to be blue.

https://tinyurl.com/y2m8h5ep

It's science.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2026 06:30 PM (2Ez/1)

84 One of the most disturbing things I have leaned about color is brown is not a color. It changes the way you look ate everything.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:32 PM (vFG9F)

85 Anyway, why not just call it gray?
Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:22 PM (vFG9F)

Car companies are like that. Ebony instead of black. Light slate instead of Grey. Light dune instead of light brown. Ivory instead of white. Thats one company. Another does macchiato for their Light brown.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 06:32 PM (zZu0s)

86 Pantone is the standard. Colors coded/numbered for clarity.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 23, 2026 06:33 PM (D1E+2)

87 https://tinyurl.com/y2m8h5ep

It's science.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2026 06:30 PM (2Ez/1)

Then, they proceed to tell you twelve colors of "blue."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 06:34 PM (1Ff7Z)

88 Our porch ceiling is white. I never got the memo. The wall is blue though.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:35 PM (vFG9F)

89 If we stick to just the color of a "Color Revolution", and not the politics of it, will that fit? There is more controversy over the color of the 2020 U.S. coup, than over whether there was one.

I maintain that it was a Black Revolution, for two main reasons:

* Most telling: Black was the color that some people changed their social media avatars to a solid block of, and that is a standard characteristic behavior in Color Revolutions.

* Also relevant: Black was one of (IIRC) only two colors used in official organization names, and the other didn't really matter. All the national and local Black Lives Matter groups were very active on the field; Code Pink was (at best) cheering from the stands.

* Not relevant, but worthy of mention to dismiss: Black is also in the name of Black Bloc, but that is actually just a standard tactic in transnational revcom training, in Europe and around the world. They dress in all black and move in a block, so that no one specific thug can be definitively attached to any one specific boot to the head. Of note, it's only useful for destabilizing countries with strong civil rights laws; others would just punish them all together.

Posted by: SciVo at May 23, 2026 06:36 PM (Sy6m/)

90 Off hobby topic.
For those who include music, especially singing, as a hobby there is a YT channel called Jonasquin. He takes popular songs like Sweet Caroline, Stayin' Alive, and Bridge Over Troubled Water and recreates them as madrigal or Renaissance styles, mostly acapella. He really catches the harmonies and cadences. One episode details the formula (more like guidelines) for making the styles. Haven't played with music theory in over 50 years but some of it came back while listening.

I love madrigals even though they rarely include a bass vocal line. A horrible detraction from an otherwise gorgeous music. Very sad for someone whose top range barely goes above middle C. (SIGH!)

Posted by: JTB at May 23, 2026 06:41 PM (yTvNw)

91 An article on how to prepare your house to sell it said, if there is anything purple in the house, paint over it before you put the house up for sale. So color must matter.

Posted by: Wenda at May 23, 2026 06:44 PM (pBmgI)

92 I'll just leave this here..

https://youtu.be/uu1tODovlBQ

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 23, 2026 06:44 PM (nbLIj)

93 Shots fired outside white house. Supposedly SS killed two fools.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 06:45 PM (zZu0s)

94 Top of the page at Insty.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 06:46 PM (zZu0s)

95 Sorry for the OT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 06:46 PM (zZu0s)

96 One of the best examples making fun of stupid fashionable color names came from, appropriately enough, the Red Green Show. He told a story about trying to match a color called 'whisper of tomato' for his wife. The man is a comic genius.

Posted by: JTB at May 23, 2026 06:47 PM (yTvNw)

97 {i]One of the most disturbing things I have leaned about color is brown is not a color. It changes the way you look ate everything.
Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:32 PM (vFG9F)

Who the heck told you that? Brown is part of the Orange family. It's just orange with blue added to it. Some artists call brown "destroyed orange."

Posted by: tankascribe at May 23, 2026 06:47 PM (NtoJk)

98 Polynikes, got it now
Sort of a old crochet sampler

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 06:47 PM (Ia/+0)

99 I love dark blues and purple and dark green.

But bright yellow daffodils make me smile. And the soft pink of a sweet peony.

My apartment is very butter yellow. And a lot of my furniture is pine. So there’s a lot of honey and yellow. I have clamshell pink chairs and am about to buy a sea foam green velvet couch.

I live on the beach.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 06:48 PM (A5RD0)

100 #90. Adding vocal music to a color thread. Thanks a bunch in making me feel totally not at home.
Besides color blind, have a voice to die from, not for.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 23, 2026 06:48 PM (/VSxT)

101 One of the most disturbing things I have leaned about color is brown is not a color. It changes the way you look ate everything.
Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:32 PM (vFG9F)
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Oh, you have no idea what's really out there....

Posted by: The Colour out of Space at May 23, 2026 06:48 PM (gnNyN)

102 Oh, you have no idea what's really out there....
Posted by: The Colour out of Space at May 23, 2026 06:48 PM (gnNyN)

LOL! Another Lovecraft fan!

Posted by: tankascribe at May 23, 2026 06:49 PM (NtoJk)

103 "It's just orange with blue added to it."

I know. Weird huh?

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:49 PM (vFG9F)

104 Oh, you have no idea what's really out there....
Posted by: The Colour out of Space at May 23, 2026 06:48 PM (gnNyN)

LOL! Another Lovecraft fan!
Posted by: tankascribe at May 23, 2026 06:49 PM (NtoJk)
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One of my favorite Lovecraft stories. It's just so weird.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 06:50 PM (gnNyN)

105 75 LOL! I'll bet I know what sparked this topic, TRex!

Posted by: tankascribe at May 23, 2026 06:23 PM
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Didn't spark it but absolutely confirmed the choice!

Posted by: TRex - color consultant dino at May 23, 2026 06:51 PM (IQ6Gq)

106 Adams was traveling extremely light in that photo. He normally used an 8x10 view camera, I believe (8x10" being the size of the plate/negative). You'd have to be damned dedicated to hump one of those into the wilderness.

I'm amassing quite a collection of different colors of 3D printing filament. It's gotten to the point that if you ask me to print a new frammistat spacer for your turboencabulator, you're probably going to get a magenta or bright orange one, depending on which spool has the most on it, rather than the utilitarian white or black you might expect.

> Black is also in the name of Black Bloc,

It will never stop being funny that a group of "anarchists" will put on uniforms and march in formation.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 23, 2026 06:51 PM (IG3/x)

107 If you mix every color, you get green. At least, if you're washing your oil painting brushes in odorless thinner.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 06:51 PM (1Ff7Z)

108 An article on how to prepare your house to sell it said, if there is anything purple in the house, paint over it before you put the house up for sale. So color must matter.
Posted by: Wenda
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When our current house initially went on the market, every room was a different very vibrant color: purple, blue, bright red, orange, etc. It did not sell.
They repainted everything, except the bright red room, a neutral yellow. Then it sold...and I've repainted every room, starting with the bright red....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 06:52 PM (IQ6Gq)

109 When you look at a pine tree, you don't think "blue and orange". You think brown. But it's not a color. It's an illusion, the way we interpret the world, even though the color doesn't exist.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:52 PM (vFG9F)

110 Purchased a Cray-Pas 88 piece Wooden Box set for my daughter 20+ years ago as remembered these from my childhood and being fascinated with the color palette. Guessing she was USMC-minded and partial to Crayons as found the set this year in unused and pristine condition while de-cluttering.
No longer available but for reference:

https://tinyurl.digital/j338tw

Posted by: Billy the Mountain at May 23, 2026 06:52 PM (fnQvM)

111 99 But bright yellow daffodils make me smile.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 06:48 PM
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Same for Mama Rex. She always looks forward to daffy season each year and has hundreds in her gardens.

Posted by: TRex - daffy dino at May 23, 2026 06:53 PM (IQ6Gq)

112 Very cool thread. My eyes have always been drawn to bright colors and spectra.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 06:53 PM (RIvkX)

113 I hesitate to mention this, but the Yves Klein painting is upside down.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 23, 2026 06:54 PM (PiwSw)

114 87 https://tinyurl.com/y2m8h5ep

It's science.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2026 06:30 PM (2Ez/1)

Then, they proceed to tell you twelve colors of "blue."
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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In Japan there were only shades of blue until the concept of green was introduced by western cultures.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 06:54 PM (sqJYm)

115 I've seen examples of art done with the big Crayola collection of crayons. Some of it is amazingly realistic. (I wanted one of those 64 count boxes so bad as a youngster. Never got close.)

Posted by: JTB at May 23, 2026 06:55 PM (yTvNw)

116 For those who include music, especially singing, as a hobby there is a YT channel called Jonasquin. He takes popular songs like Sweet Caroline, Stayin' Alive, and Bridge Over Troubled Water and recreates them as madrigal or Renaissance styles, mostly acapella. He really catches the harmonies and cadences. One episode details the formula (more like guidelines) for making the styles. Haven't played with music theory in over 50 years but some of it came back while listening.

I love madrigals even though they rarely include a bass vocal line. A horrible detraction from an otherwise gorgeous music. Very sad for someone whose top range barely goes above middle C. (SIGH!)
Posted by: JTB at May 23, 2026 06:41 PM (yTvNw)

I sang in the university chorus's madrigal group for a season. I described it to outsiders as "Medieval barbershop". It was fun..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 23, 2026 06:55 PM (nbLIj)

117 They repainted everything, except the bright red room, a neutral yellow. Then it sold...and I've repainted every room, starting with the bright red....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 06:52 PM (IQ6Gq)

Funny, yellow makes me think of sickness. Except for a bright yellow Schwinn ten speed.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 06:56 PM (1Ff7Z)

118 Homer and the "wine-dark sea"... supposedly the Greeks of that time didn't distinguish between blues and purples.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 23, 2026 06:56 PM (IG3/x)

119 "If you mix every color, you get green. At least, if you're washing your oil painting brushes in odorless thinner."

In my experience, you get mud. And it's a PITA cleaning out the container; just did it yesterday. That's where surgical gloves come in handy!

I think the biggest crime against humanity was Gay Liberation hijacking the rainbow. I love rainbows, the spectrum, and the color wheel (all kinds of color wheels) but now if you have any chromatic sequence of colors, it's perceived as frickin' gay.

Posted by: tankascribe at May 23, 2026 06:57 PM (NtoJk)

120 When I was painting motorcycles I used to like mixing up colors. I did most of the paint jobs using candy colors. I was able to make some wicked nice colors, but damn, if you ruined it down the road matching it was a problem.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 06:57 PM (snZF9)

121 Guessing she was USMC-minded and partial to Crayons as found the set this year in unused and pristine condition while de-cluttering.
No longer available but for reference:

https://tinyurl.digital/j338tw
Posted by: Billy the Mountain

On ebay at $150+ per set, that's where your found one should be going. You can split 80-20 with your daughter.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 23, 2026 06:57 PM (/VSxT)

122 I like light blue walls for bedroom and living room, and a deeper sort of grayish blue for the exterior, with white trim and a red door. For some reason I think a red door is cool.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 05:34 PM (wzUl9)

The advice I got when I bought a house was to "paint using the color palette for your favorite fruits"
I chose pear for the bedrooms, and in scrambling around I decided on an Eau de Nil for the living room since it was close to oak leaves without being too dark. Then I figured the Eau de Nil was too dark anyways, so I did the walls with windows in Eau de Nil and did the blind walls two shades lighter, in Pale Celadon, which turned out very nice
The gentle yellow with the brown trim and doors is a good combo, and it helps in the windowless hallway as well.

The kitchen is white. I need all the light I can get

Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 06:58 PM (rbvCR)

123 Evening, TRex and Hobby Horde. Just had a nice visit with AZ Deplorable Moron and his lovely wife.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2026 06:58 PM (8zz6B)

124 In my experience, you get mud. And it's a PITA cleaning out the container; just did it yesterday. That's where surgical gloves come in handy!

I think the biggest crime against humanity was Gay Liberation hijacking the rainbow. I love rainbows, the spectrum, and the color wheel (all kinds of color wheels) but now if you have any chromatic sequence of colors, it's perceived as frickin' gay.
Posted by: tankascribe at May 23, 2026 06:57 PM (NtoJk)

Well, yeah, the detritus is mud, but the liquid is green.

The rainbow for perversion was chosen on purpose to insult the maker of the rainbow.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 06:58 PM (1Ff7Z)

125 One of the most disturbing things I have leaned about color is brown is not a color. It changes the way you look ate everything.
Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:32 PM (vFG9F)

When I got this house the spare bedroom was UPS brown. You're right, brown is not a color, its a frigging war crime.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 07:00 PM (snZF9)

126 Japan there were only shades of blue until the concept of green was introduced by western cultures.

Posted by: Braenyard

I just can't get this. Literally, inconceivable.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 23, 2026 07:01 PM (/VSxT)

127 I sang in the university chorus's madrigal group for a season. I described it to outsiders as "Medieval barbershop".

Joe Kidd, that's hysterical! I wish I'd thought of that, but I shall file the serial numbers off it and claim it for my own. Sang madrigals in chorus; sometimes you come across a rock song performed in the style of a madrigal and they're a scream!

(FYI, TRex knows I just repainted the background on a painting this past week, which IMHO improved it by 100%. That's where changing a color really pays off!)

Posted by: tankascribe at May 23, 2026 07:01 PM (NtoJk)

128 When I got this house the spare bedroom was UPS brown. You're right, brown is not a color, its a frigging war crime.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 07:00 PM (snZF9)

Ahem. It's "Pullman Brown." Licensed from the Pullman Company.

Posted by: George at May 23, 2026 07:01 PM (1Ff7Z)

129 The Brown Room. Make someone stay in there and tell them it's orange.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 07:02 PM (vFG9F)

130 When I got this house the spare bedroom was UPS brown. You're right, brown is not a color, its a frigging war crime.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 07:00 PM (snZF9)
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I know what you mean. One of the bedrooms of my house was a hideous dark gray when I bought it.

I was able to paint the entire inside a more pleasing color (to me) before I moved in.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 07:02 PM (gnNyN)

131 Adams often waited a long time, days, for that magic moment of light, shadow, and sky. *click*

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 07:02 PM (2Fnww)

132 Pantone is the standard. Colors coded/numbered for clarity.

Pantone is proprietary. RGB is a standard.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 23, 2026 07:03 PM (vTZFs)

133 When I got this house the spare bedroom was UPS brown. You're right, brown is not a color, its a frigging war crime.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
*************
That's how I feel about "frosted persimmons!"
When my parents bought their home it was brown (external). Luckily I was far too young at the time, as my father attached/painted one side every year changing it to a white house.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 07:03 PM (IQ6Gq)

134 When I went to the Grand Canyon as a kid, there was an Ansel Adams studio there. Many black and white shots of the Canyon and the surrounding area. Incredible the beauty he captured with just black and white.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 23, 2026 07:04 PM (viF8m)

135 I'm not sure I have a favorite color. But I have a favorite effect: light, mostly sun light, and how the angle and intensity brings out different qualities in color. Sunlight shining through daffodils mentioned above is a good example. Moonlight, even artificial light can provide the same variations but not as strongly.

Posted by: JTB at May 23, 2026 07:05 PM (yTvNw)

136 123 Evening, TRex and Hobby Horde. Just had a nice visit with AZ Deplorable Moron and his lovely wife.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2026 06:58 PM
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Excellent. Good people.

Always happy when I hear that Morons get together in real life.

Posted by: TRex - dino color license holder at May 23, 2026 07:06 PM (IQ6Gq)

137 A couple years ago my wife and went to the same condo in Florida we'd been going to for about the 3rd time. I took a "beginners" watercolor kit with us. We'd sit on the balcony, having cocktails and paint what we saw.

Then, buy cheap 8X10 frames and hang them with those sticky things that don't use nails.

A year later... they were still there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 23, 2026 07:06 PM (jehhT)

138 Before the bright yellow, my computer room had 1970's brown wood panelling and the ugliest carpet.

If the roof was higher, it would have been the perfect place for people to hang themselves.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 23, 2026 07:08 PM (Sco7b)

139 Color has a huge impact on games. From Candyland to Magic: The Gathering to Warhammer 40K, color plays an important role in how the game is played.

In W40K, for instance, painting Ork miniatures a certain color affects the game rules because Orkish belief powers their technology.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 07:08 PM (gnNyN)

140 Many years ago I had an art professor for a GenEd undergrad course who, surprisingly for an academic artist, was a) talented, b) not a communist and c) a genuinely good guy.

I only saw him angry one time... seems that some boy scout needed a "community project", and decided to paint a pedestrian bridge out on a trail that shitty Forest Service brown. The problem with that was that my professor had made tons of intricate carvings on this bridge ("wood spirits" and other mythological creatures... like I said, he was good). Not only that, but he'd designed it so it would look cooler after it had weathered a bit.

He was very not amused at someone's inbred crotchfruit wrecking it so he could get his Greasy Gopher badge or whatever it was.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 23, 2026 07:08 PM (IG3/x)

141 You use miniatures in Candyland?

Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 07:09 PM (rbvCR)

142 When I got this house the spare bedroom was UPS brown. You're right, brown is not a color, its a frigging war crime.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 07:00 PM (snZF9)
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I know what you mean. One of the bedrooms of my house was a hideous dark gray when I bought it.

I was able to paint the entire inside a more pleasing color (to me) before I moved in.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 07:02 PM (gnNyN)

My house was a lesson in insanity. The colors here were soooo bad either they were gotten of a clearance shelf, or the dude's girlfriend who picked the colors has the worse frigging taste in colors in the galaxy and should have had her ass removed. Who in their right mind paints the whole central area of the house pumpkin orange. The one bedroom had 2 walls periwinkle and 2 walls a greenish yellow. Another room had 2 walls bright red and 2 walls bright yellow. The one half bath was grey and green. It was brutal.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 07:10 PM (snZF9)

143 My house was a lesson in insanity. The colors here were soooo bad either they were gotten of a clearance shelf, or the dude's girlfriend who picked the colors has the worse frigging taste in colors in the galaxy and should have had her ass removed. Who in their right mind paints the whole central area of the house pumpkin orange. The one bedroom had 2 walls periwinkle and 2 walls a greenish yellow. Another room had 2 walls bright red and 2 walls bright yellow. The one half bath was grey and green. It was brutal.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 07:10 PM (snZF9)
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Maybe they were colorblind and the colors worked well in the spectrum they could see...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 07:12 PM (gnNyN)

144 "You use miniatures in Candyland?
Posted by: Kindltot"

I used the race car from Monopoly.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 07:12 PM (vFG9F)

145 My small daughter was aware of my color issues, and knew I abused it to cheat at Candyland. She would get quite pissed off.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 23, 2026 07:12 PM (/VSxT)

146 My house was a lesson in insanity. The colors here were soooo bad either they were gotten of a clearance shelf, or the dude's girlfriend who picked the colors has the worse frigging taste in colors in the galaxy and should have had her ass removed. Who in their right mind paints the whole central area of the house pumpkin orange. The one bedroom had 2 walls periwinkle and 2 walls a greenish yellow. Another room had 2 walls bright red and 2 walls bright yellow. The one half bath was grey and green. It was brutal.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Wow. Just wow. Hope you got it for a good price. That sounds like the perfect definition for brutal.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 07:13 PM (IQ6Gq)

147 "Maybe they were colorblind and the colors worked well in the spectrum they could see...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel"

Maybe that's what the world looks like to a crazy person.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 07:14 PM (vFG9F)

148 Thank you for Hobby Thread, Mr. TRex.

I'll try to think of some color commentary.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 23, 2026 07:14 PM (QGaXH)

149 143 My house was a lesson in insanity. The colors here were soooo bad either they were gotten of a clearance shelf,
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 07:10 PM
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Maybe they were colorblind and the colors worked well in the spectrum they could see...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 07:12 PM
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Maybe now we know where the seconds and rejects at the Meijer paint department went...

Posted by: TRex - Meijer summer paint mixer intern dino at May 23, 2026 07:15 PM (IQ6Gq)

150 My house was a lesson in insanity. The colors here were soooo bad either they were gotten of a clearance shelf, or the dude's girlfriend who picked the colors has the worse frigging taste in colors in the galaxy and should have had her ass removed. Who in their right mind paints the whole central area of the house pumpkin orange. The one bedroom had 2 walls periwinkle and 2 walls a greenish yellow. Another room had 2 walls bright red and 2 walls bright yellow. The one half bath was grey and green. It was brutal.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 07:10 PM (snZF9)

My wife went to an open house by a realtor and says that the colors used throughout the house never matched, clashed and generally looked like the Easter Bunny exploded

Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 07:15 PM (rbvCR)

151 It was brutal.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Wow. Just wow. Hope you got it for a good price. That sounds like the perfect definition for brutal.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 07:13 PM (IQ6Gq)

Sounds like the late 60s.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 07:16 PM (zZu0s)

152 148 Thank you for Hobby Thread, Mr. TRex.

I'll try to think of some color commentary.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 23, 2026 07:14 PM
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You're welcome. I'm just glad nobody has brought up 50 Shades of Gray.

Posted by: TRex - stadler or waldorf? dino at May 23, 2026 07:17 PM (IQ6Gq)

153 Look at the house while hearing the intro to Ina Gadda Da Vida.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 07:18 PM (zZu0s)

154 We were always making games from other games. Mousetrap was boring after a couple of games so we jazzed it up with The Game of Life to make it more realistic.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 07:18 PM (vFG9F)

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