Cypresses 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
- Black green#1D251DRGB 29, 37, 2921%
- Parchment#D1C9ADRGB 209, 201, 17321%
- Celadon#5FA494RGB 95, 164, 14816%
- Deep green#3C4A2BRGB 60, 74, 4314%
- Ochre#9F9435RGB 159, 148, 537%
- Denim#365577RGB 54, 85, 1191%
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
Black green leads with 21% of the painting, and parchment follows with 21%.
Denim is the accent: only 1% of the painting, but enough to lift the rest.
Light and dark are far apart: from parchment at value 8 down to black green at 1, on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white). That range gives the painting its strong contrast.
Warm and cool are close to balanced: 35% warm, 39% cool.
Ochre and denim 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.
