Beach Huts, Concarneau color palette
Frances Hodgkins, c. 1912. The five main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The five colors
- Pale linen#ECDBC6RGB 236, 219, 19839%
- Biscuit#D6AE8DRGB 214, 174, 14121%
- Vermilion#C37162RGB 195, 113, 9810%
- Slate#6B8A92RGB 107, 138, 1468%
- Sage gray#90A2A2RGB 144, 162, 1628%
Shares are of the whole painting, rounded. Make your own palette from any picture with Image to Palette.
How the colors work
Pale linen leads with 39% of the painting, and biscuit follows with 21%.
All five colors sit close in light, between value 6 and 9 on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white), which keeps the painting soft and even.
It leans warm: warm colors cover 37%, cool ones 9%.
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.
Pale linen 9
Biscuit 7
Sage gray 7
Vermilion 6
Slate 6
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.
