Water Lily Pond color palette
Claude Monet, 1900. The five main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The five colors
- Bark#4D453DRGB 77, 69, 6151%
- Slate green#56706ERGB 86, 112, 11021%
- Taupe#9F9486RGB 159, 148, 13411%
- Moss#747F4BRGB 116, 127, 7510%
- Terracotta#82554CRGB 130, 85, 765%
Shares are of the whole painting, rounded. Make your own palette from any picture with Image to Palette.
How the colors work
Bark rules this painting: it covers 51%, more than all the other colors together.
Terracotta is the accent: only 5% 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 (85% 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.
