What color is the sea?

Question

i mean, i was looking to paint my room the color of the sea, but i'm not sure what color to paint it exactly.. i no that the color it reflects the color of the skay, so i would like my sky to be like how it would look if it looks like it's gonna rain... Can someone help me :]

Answer 1

Let's see - there's the Red Sea and the Dead Sea
uh and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Seas of the Seven Sisters....

Answer 2

It depends on the sunlight, clouds, and what's mixed in the water (microscopic critters, plants, silt, and so on). Most sea has a green tint except when you get shallow where the color of the bottom has an effect. With rain, there's not a lot of sunlight, mostly clouds. I'd go with the sky having the grey, black, and so on, and the sea with the same mixed with different shades of green. Make it lighter where the waves are thinner since more light passes through, darker in the valleys between waves where there's little light to cause change. Look on Ebay at some of the old paintings, seascapes. They show excellent use of color for a realistic sea. And don't forget the wind will cause some whitish foam. Just look at the paintings, they'll show you. Old ones though. The new stuff is phony looking.

Answer 3

The sea has no color. Water is clear. The color that you see is a reflection of the sun off the water minus pollution. Again the sky also is a reflection there is not really a color. Ask someone like me who is color blind. But if you would like to paint a room the color of the sea as seen in pictures of the Florida Keys, you can go with a color called teal, which is a bluish green. As for the sky, a very pale blue would do it. Add some gray to the blue for the rainy day look. They are two very different colors.

Answer 4

Before a rain, the ocean can look everything from drab blue to murkish yellow to dark grey. Depending on how heavy the cloud cover and the time of day--for an approaching light rain, it can be a nice shade of faint blue; yellow tones can be present late in the day with the angle of the sun as it shines through moisture in the air unto the water's surface, and if it is overcast for much of the day, the ocean can look like a bottomless well of grey.

Personally I like the mid-day appearance on the Atlantic Ocean of blues ranging from the shimmery emerald tints to the deeper aquamarine blue, when it seems almost possible to see the bottom even at the 100-foot depth a mile or more out from shore

I spent one summer in college as a hand on an ocean-going construction barge and had a lot of time to ponder the appearance of the sea.

Answer 5

Wyland is the best sea painter I know. Go to this website

http://www.wylandstudiostore.com/index.cfm?CFID=1579169&CFTOKEN=2609183&RootCategoryID=2&CategoryID=101&Startrow=1&do=list

and look at those pics. When you find the color you like most, print the picture and bring it to the paint store, they should be able to help you get the mix you're looking for.

Good Luck!

Answer 6

Your funny...umm what sea there are several... I'm kidding.. Lets see theres heavy rain... when is a dark blue grey and misty rain when its a light grey and regular rain when its just grey.. I don't like those colors .. why dont you just paint it blue green or something

Answer 7

I would say a blue-green color, maybe on the darker side?

Answer 8

Supposed to be a deep blue. But now-a-days its green or nasty brown around most of our coasts.

mike

Answer 9

depends on the depth...
usually as it gets more deep...light bends more and the color gets closer to a dark blue.....
but water itself is translucide(cristal like)

Answer 10

light blue -- shimmering of course