Mahana no atua (Day of the God) color palette
Paul Gauguin, 1894. The six main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The six colors
- Deep blue#2B445BRGB 43, 68, 9127%
- Old rose#99646ARGB 153, 100, 10616%
- Denim#2A5F8ARGB 42, 95, 13814%
- Brown#735D41RGB 115, 93, 6510%
- Ochre#AB8C41RGB 171, 140, 6510%
- Verdigris#377954RGB 55, 121, 843%
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
Deep blue leads with 27% of the painting, and old rose follows with 16%.
Verdigris is the accent: only 3% of the painting, but enough to lift the rest.
All six 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.
Warm and cool are close to balanced: 46% warm, 54% cool.
Deep blue and brown 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.
