A Sunday on La Grande Jatte color palette
Georges Seurat, 1884–86. The six main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The six colors
- Slate green#4B5C50RGB 75, 92, 8029%
- Straw#A19A66RGB 161, 154, 10215%
- Charcoal#4A494ERGB 74, 73, 7812%
- Slate#8C979FRGB 140, 151, 15912%
- Lichen#6C7756RGB 108, 119, 868%
- Terracotta#946459RGB 148, 100, 893%
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
Slate green leads with 29% of the painting, and straw follows with 15%.
Terracotta is the accent: only 3% of the painting, but enough to lift the rest.
All six colors sit close in light, between value 3 and 6 on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white), which keeps the painting soft and even.
Most of it is near-neutral (67% of these colors): grays, browns and creams that let the few real colors speak.
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.
