The Bedroom color palette
Vincent van Gogh, 1889. The six main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The six colors
- Mink#9D7F79RGB 157, 127, 12135%
- Ochre#A87B12RGB 168, 123, 1823%
- Blue#8099B9RGB 128, 153, 18517%
- Sage#7BAD8BRGB 123, 173, 13914%
- Olive#345F41RGB 52, 95, 656%
- Pistachio#C2C280RGB 194, 194, 1283%
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
Mink leads with 35% of the painting, and ochre follows with 23%.
Pistachio is the accent: only 3% of the painting, but enough to lift the rest.
Its values run from 4 (olive) to 8 (pistachio), on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white): a middle range, neither hard nor hazy.
Warm and cool are close to balanced: 62% warm, 38% cool.
Ochre and blue sit on opposite sides of the color wheel, so each makes the other look stronger (see complementary colors).
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.
