Self-Portrait with Two Pupils color palette
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, 1785. The six main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The six colors
- Ink brown#292216RGB 41, 34, 2250%
- Cognac#7F593BRGB 127, 89, 5911%
- Oxblood#5E3528RGB 94, 53, 408%
- Oat#B9967ARGB 185, 150, 1224%
- Deep green#4D5530RGB 77, 85, 482%
- Putty#AFAFA2RGB 175, 175, 1621%
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
Ink brown rules this painting: it covers 50%, more than all the other colors together.
Oat is the accent: only 4% of the painting, but enough to lift the rest.
Light and dark are far apart: from putty at value 7 down to ink brown at 1, on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white). That range gives the painting its strong contrast.
Most of it is near-neutral (67% 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.
