There are some colors that are impossible to name. They are beautiful and elusive and fragile.

I seem to be enamored of colors that aren’t really solid. They shift from one to another. If you wait ten minutes they change. If you take a picture it will never look like what your eyes saw. Yet, you still try.

I’ve tried to paint these colors, knowing all the while that they can’t be nailed down. That is part of their beauty. They don’t exist on a paint sample card from Lowe’s. They are several colors at once, and nothing in particular.

The winter sunset is one such example.