Historic Paraty is a town of whitewashed homes and churches. Only the bright doors and windows and the terracotta roofs add spots of color. But the boats of Paraty are a different story. They are unabashedly colorful with equally colorful names.

Painting those boats made me wish I had pepto bismol pink and bright baby blue in my palette. No amount of undiluted pigment could capture those colors. That doesn’t mean I didn’t try…

And a quieter one below, perhaps because I didn’t get around to finishing it?

One last one, this one with a row of really bright homes to batch the boats.

More from Paraty, Brazil coming soon.