Mother's Goodnight Kiss color palette
Mary Cassatt, 1888. The five main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The five colors
- Umber#554532RGB 85, 69, 5043%
- Pale khaki#997C33RGB 153, 124, 5114%
- Brown#83674CRGB 131, 103, 768%
- Ink blue#183B56RGB 24, 59, 867%
- Deep oat#AF9480RGB 175, 148, 1285%
Shares are of the whole painting, rounded. Make your own palette from any picture with Image to Palette.
How the colors work
Umber rules this painting: it covers 43%, close to half of it.
Its values run from 2 (ink blue) to 6 (deep oat), on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white): a middle range, neither hard nor hazy.
It leans warm: warm colors cover 91%, cool ones 9%.
Brown and ink 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.
