Susan in a Straw Bonnet color palette
Mary Cassatt, c. 1883. The five main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The five colors
- Umber#4E3B31RGB 78, 59, 4938%
- Moss#717A4ERGB 113, 122, 7827%
- Olive drab#60583FRGB 96, 88, 6326%
- Oat#B09D8DRGB 176, 157, 1414%
- Storm#4C6C79RGB 76, 108, 1213%
Shares are of the whole painting, rounded. Make your own palette from any picture with Image to Palette.
How the colors work
Umber leads with 38% of the painting, and moss follows with 27%.
Its values run from 3 (umber) to 7 (oat), on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white): a middle range, neither hard nor hazy.
Warm and cool are close to balanced: 27% warm, 30% cool.
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.
Oat 7
Moss 5
Olive drab 4
Storm 4
Umber 3
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.
