The Top Ten Unpaintable Blues:
The far mountains of Bertraghboy Bay, Ireland.
"In the intense cold of late evening the further shores of Bertraghboy Boy seemed to catch and hold the last of the sunlight, the seawrack below high-water line glowing orange, the walled fields above burnished green, the far mountains an
unpaintable blue." (
The Crying of the Wind)
The New Mexico desert sky.
"I awoke in the desert of New Mexico to behold golden sand, golden grass, green-gold sage brush, golden wastes, vast, craggy, creviced, cliff-sided buttes rising turret-like, a wide domain bounded by purple mountains and
unpaintable blue sky." (Robert Jackson,
Montreal Gazette)
Twilight in the California desert.
"Strewn from the western desert's wild wings across the
unpaintable blue of the twilight sky stream rose-red pennants, tender yet resplendent—not the washed out hue of other sunset skies but the soul satisfying glory of color the desert sky alone can show." (
The Desert and the Rose)
The mountains of Moab.
The shore of ancient Kamiros, Rhodes.
The Azorean ocean.
"Then there is the intense blue of the Ocean. I have never seen such deep, completely
unpaintable blue before. It is so different from the opaque grayish waves that hit the coast of Holland." (Pieter Adriaans, "
Painting on the Azores")
Someone other than Brittany's irises.
"She can't see any tiger gold or unpaintable blue in Brittany's irises." ("Full Moon on a Sunday Night," Part One)
The sky over Portland, Oregon.
"
The air is crisp and the sky is unpaintable blue." (Scott Conary)
The Huxtable kitchen.
"[I]n
all its badly-hung, unpaintable, powder-blue glory." (Andy Peters)
