Damn Hard Lesson...

Damn hard to find The Right Blue... a bright, happy, intense, rich, illuminating, different, new, lively blue that does not fall into dark, dull or hits the road to Teal. 

I spent two hours on the Internet last night searching, searching, searching for a blue paint color which might meet Our Rigorous Criterion. Here's the list of sites...

1.   Fowler & Ball... Home to Elephant's Breath

2.   Ralph Lauren... how come his examples DO NOT EVER LOOK like the paint in the photos???

3.   Benjamin Moore... simple site, we love it but, alas, No Right Blue

4.   Sherwin Williams... ditto

5.   Glidden... tints for mobile homes

6.   Behr... drastically too complicated a website just to have the color fan deck

7.   Crown... forgettable

8.  Dutch Boy... and they still have the Dutch boy on his swing holding a bucket of paint. How quaint for 2012, no?

9.   Pittsburgh Paints... industrial looking

10. California Paints... dreadful interiors for iiinspeeerations

11. Olympic... could never download successfully their ColorPic. Che sara' sara'

12. Kelly-Moore... ???

13. Guggenheim Paints... they should be shot for their website... beyond obnoxious AND arrogant

14. Montana Paints... must take up street art with spray cans of ozone destroying colors

15. Porter Paints... more of ???

and, from Australia...

16. Dulux Paints... their stylists out to hit Aborginal art sites for colors other than dull blue, tan, brown 

and...

17. I even went to Martha Stewart's blog about mixing colors at Home Depot, for cryin' out loud!!!

For further frustration, I surfed to Pantone, where I took to drink from searching colors from a postage stamp sized example. Deciding that what I had chosen WAS NOT IT, I had to scroll down all over again to the Blue Range to find another, more acceptable color. That exercise wasted My Precious Time!!! Besides, no bright, happy, etc.

The Lesson from this adventure to find the Right Blue it this...
WE NEED TO CHUCK BLUE!!! 
A truly bright, happy, intense, rich, etc. colors CAN BE HAD in the Yellow... skipping Orange... to Red, to Pink, to Violet and a couple of Greens. The consequence of hunting in the Green Group KILLED My Desire for A Sevres Green.

I am now going to hit art books for The Right Blue. Titian HAS GOT TO HAVE IT!!! Gads.