The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L'Estaque color palette
Paul Cézanne, c. 1885. The five main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The five colors
- Blue gray#88A0A4RGB 136, 160, 16436%
- Blue#456B83RGB 69, 107, 13125%
- Camel#B78B66RGB 183, 139, 10216%
- Lichen#607C5FRGB 96, 124, 9515%
- Terracotta#845145RGB 132, 81, 69under 1%
Shares are of the whole painting, rounded. Make your own palette from any picture with Image to Palette.
How the colors work
Blue gray leads with 36% of the painting, and blue follows with 25%.
Terracotta is the accent: only 1% of the painting, but enough to lift the rest.
All five colors sit close in light, between value 4 and 6 on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white), which keeps the painting soft and even.
It leans cool: cool colors cover 43%, warm ones 17%.
Blue and camel 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.
