What's Your Colour? by fiveplustwo

What's Your Colour?

For those of you that don't know, I'm a Trade & Architectural sales manager for Dulux New Zealand. That means I spend my working days spewing forth paint colours at a moments notice...I spend my working days surrounded by colour (I know, it's hard to believe). I have access to thousands of colours and choose B&W every time...what's yours?
It's been a busy old week.

@graemestevens
What's my colour? Yellow as the sunshine on the ground, yellow as a dandelion in a lawn, yellow as a semi ripe banana, yellow as a lemon on a lemon tree! Mellow yellow! Interesting job!
August 22nd, 2015  
oh yes. the new job. hope its going well. Fav colours black (of course being and Aucklander!) and blue
August 22nd, 2015  
Omg! How do you live with yourself? ;p
August 22nd, 2015  
That does not surprise me at all. People who live chaotic l chaotic Ives seem to surround them selves in white, beige so where you are alway face. With a large variety of colors all day long it would natural that you would choose B&W. Don't ask me where I got my psychology degree ......I think it came in a box of Cracker Jacks.,
August 22nd, 2015  
Oh my colors tend to be green and blues at least while I have been living in Florida. These colors keep me cool in the heat.
August 22nd, 2015  
Blue....Awesome sc
August 23rd, 2015  
Hehehe. Nope, still clever enough to be worth the wait. That is quite ironic, but perhaps it is your life full of colors that causes you to choose black and white? Although... you've preferred black and white long before this job.
Fun shot. :) I think my color is somewhere in the purples... do you have cool names for all your paint colors?
August 23rd, 2015  
@ludgate I didn't think this one was up to much really, but thank you. We do have names for every single colour...Mangatainoka, Opononi, Wairakei,,,all unpronounceable unless drunk...
@wenbow Thanks very much - less selective, more chaotic...
@janiskay Yes, life has been chaotic lately but in a good way...
@northy Monday - Friday I tend to bring out the "nice" Graeme...
@brigette It is going well, I'm really enjoying it, thanks...and you can't help being an Aucklander ;)
@maggiemae There's an awful lot of yellows to choose from...
August 23rd, 2015  
Poor little Graemsie! I'll take green, please! ;)
August 23rd, 2015  
@graemestevens An excuse to drink on the job? You have to be able to pronounce the colors to your customers, right? ;)
August 23rd, 2015  
Oh I love this Graeme!! Fantastic way to end the theme and perfect for your b&w-loving self. :) Love the idea and execution - made me click that little star.
August 23rd, 2015  
yellow and red and the combination of the two
August 23rd, 2015  
hahahahahhahahah! This is great. I feel the same about my job, surrounded by color but I love it! I'm a very shitting rainbows kinda person anyway ;) oh...and pink.
August 23rd, 2015  
VERY cleverly done!! Cracked up at the image once I'd read your narrative.
August 23rd, 2015  
@juliedduncan It's a hard life for me ;)
@ludgate Yes, but a lot of my customers are drunkards as well ;)
@kerosene Thank you kindly, far too kind ;)
@annied Freak! ;)
@amyhughes I tend to fart sparkles ;)
@taffy Thank you very much indeed :)
August 23rd, 2015  
Now you using b&w a lot makes a lot of sense. Do you get any input into any of the names? I'd like to see that :)
August 23rd, 2015  
@graemestevens yeh you noticed...how kind of you :)
August 23rd, 2015  
i think this was a great idea for the theme...as for colours
i dont pick favorites but i seem to like red in my photos a lot... certain shades
August 23rd, 2015  
Sem
that is hilarious, mine's kind of dark grey
August 23rd, 2015  
@graemestevens HAHAHA. Do you now? Any chance you could photograph that? :D
August 23rd, 2015  
@karlow75 I don't think they trust me to be entirely sensible...
@kali66 Thanks - not what I'd wanted to do but time and all that...
@semjaja Thanks and yep, mostly the same here...
@amyhughes I can give it a shot...maybe
August 23rd, 2015  
Very cool SC
August 24th, 2015  
Oh, and purple for me.
August 24th, 2015  
August 24th, 2015  
@bill_fe Thank you kindly :)
August 24th, 2015  
Red and purple.....and, I stand by that, and any combinations thereof!!
Well, isn't that interesting?! If you were here you would be dealing with the likes of me (being an architect and all...), and you would be a really fun rep to know! ;-)) I don't know how things are out there, but Dulux (which used to be ICI, one of my favorite paint companies), has been acquired by PPG Industries, and companies like Frazee, which was recently merged into Sherwin Williams have overtaken the market. I am having a hard time keeping track of corporate structuring and posturing any longer, but my standby color is the ICI White High Hiding White, which is all over my house (unless covered over in a bright red or dark purple!)...and, yes, all the paint colors have names!!
August 24th, 2015  
Hilarious and so clever!
August 28th, 2015  
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