The Gulf Stream color palette
Winslow Homer, 1899. The six main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The six colors
- Midnight#12191CRGB 18, 25, 2825%
- Very deep slate#1A2F2FRGB 26, 47, 4724%
- Camel#9B7C54RGB 155, 124, 8417%
- Taupe#727369RGB 114, 115, 10512%
- Deep teal#26554FRGB 38, 85, 795%
- Sienna#885340RGB 136, 83, 642%
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
Midnight leads with 25% of the painting, and very deep slate follows with 24%.
Sienna is the accent: only 2% of the painting, but enough to lift the rest.
Its values run from 1 (midnight) to 5 (camel), on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white): a middle range, neither hard nor hazy.
Most of it is near-neutral (72% of these colors): grays, browns and creams that let the few real colors speak.
Deep teal and sienna 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.
