A Dutch Canal color palette
Frances Hodgkins, 1907–08. The five main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The five colors
- Chestnut#6E402DRGB 110, 64, 4534%
- Linen#E2C9A2RGB 226, 201, 16222%
- Cognac#996E51RGB 153, 110, 8118%
- Camel#BA9175RGB 186, 145, 11712%
- Black coffee#391D13RGB 57, 29, 195%
Shares are of the whole painting, rounded. Make your own palette from any picture with Image to Palette.
How the colors work
Chestnut leads with 34% of the painting, and linen follows with 22%.
Light and dark are far apart: from linen at value 8 down to black coffee at 1, on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white). That range gives the painting its strong contrast.
It leans warm: warm colors cover 100%, cool ones under 1%.
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.
