Irises color palette
Vincent van Gogh, 1890. The six main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The six colors
- Greige#DAD3CCRGB 218, 211, 20449%
- Celadon#71AF8ARGB 113, 175, 13814%
- Lichen#6E8F7BRGB 110, 143, 12310%
- Denim#4D7499RGB 77, 116, 1538%
- Mole#6E625FRGB 110, 98, 954%
- Deep blue#303A5ARGB 48, 58, 901%
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
Greige rules this painting: it covers 49%, close to half of it.
Deep blue is the accent: only 1% of the painting, but enough to lift the rest.
Light and dark are far apart: from greige at value 8 down to deep blue at 2, on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white). That range gives the painting its strong contrast.
Most of it is near-neutral (61% 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.
