Colourful Paint Names...Inspiration from the garbage bin!

Writing The Man In Room Eighteen (TMIR18), has made me stop and think about colours and their names. Gaily writing the sea was blue/grey is not an option. I have an artist as a POV, she is going to see colours far more deeply than I am. Elle is most certainly going to feel the colour of the sea inside her, she is going to smell the colour of the salty waves, and most of all she is going to have a different name for all shades of blue/grey.

Where on earth am I going to get inspiration for colourful names, was the first thought that popped into my head. Before I contacted an artist friend, in the hope he might have some Victorian paint names, I glanced at my 2011 calendar about to be binned (it was sitting in a bag waiting to be put out, thank goodness DH was a little behind with his chores!). Each page had a scene from the UK. I remembered it had a few pictures I really liked, and two were from the town where my book is based.
If you click on the pics they should enlarge.

 Elle will walk this pier when she is in her twenties...why her twenties? It hadn't been constructed before then, that is why.

She will walk past this place many times. The lighthouse will not be there, it is is constructed many years later. However the shoreline will be, and maybe one of those sunsets.

There are so many shades and colour variants here, that I cannot help but want to get a little creative. So I decided as my novel is fiction, and Elle is a young girl, her imagination would run wild and she could make up her own names for the colours before her. She would mix paints and keep track of them by naming them in her own way.
Now I am asking my friends for their old scenic calendar pictures in order to gain further colourful inspiration.

So if you feel so inspired as to add to Elle's catalogue just by viewing the pics above, please add them in the comment box. No prizes, just grateful thanks from me.