Maori Woman and Child color palette
Frances Hodgkins, 1900. The five main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The five colors
- Pewter#909798RGB 144, 151, 15211%
- Graphite#707069RGB 112, 112, 10511%
- Bark#534B44RGB 83, 75, 6810%
- Camel#AF835BRGB 175, 131, 914%
- Chambray#5B809FRGB 91, 128, 1591%
Shares are of the whole painting, rounded. Make your own palette from any picture with Image to Palette.
How the colors work
Pewter leads with 11% of the painting, and graphite follows with 11%.
Camel is the accent: only 4% of the painting, but enough to lift the rest.
All five 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 (86% of these colors): grays, browns and creams that let the few real colors speak.
Camel and chambray 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.
