On a Balcony color palette
Mary Cassatt, 1878–79. The six main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The six colors
- Lichen#768482RGB 118, 132, 13045%
- Slate green#4A5648RGB 74, 86, 7238%
- Greige#C2BFAERGB 194, 191, 1744%
- Straw#BDA273RGB 189, 162, 1153%
- Rosewood#9E6F6BRGB 158, 111, 1073%
- Burnt sienna#80483DRGB 128, 72, 612%
Colors picked by hand by the painter Neli Chaneva. Shares are of the whole painting, rounded. Make your own palette from any picture with Image to Palette.
How the colors work
Lichen rules this painting: it covers 45%, close to half of it.
Burnt sienna is the accent: only 2% of the painting, but enough to lift the rest.
Its values run from 4 (slate green) to 8 (greige), on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white): a middle range, neither hard nor hazy.
Most of it is near-neutral (92% of these colors): grays, browns and creams that let the few real colors speak.
The same colors in gray
Each color beside its value, from light to dark. Painters check this to see the painting’s structure without its colors.
Use this palette
Open the painting in Image to Palette to choose more or fewer colors, see the mixing strips, and save the palette for Procreate or Adobe.
