The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning color palette
Camille Pissarro, 1897. The six main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The six colors
- Graphite#5C5C55RGB 92, 92, 8522%
- Umber#594231RGB 89, 66, 4916%
- Putty#B7B4A7RGB 183, 180, 16711%
- Charcoal#363937RGB 54, 57, 5510%
- Khaki#94845FRGB 148, 132, 953%
- Parchment#DED1B5RGB 222, 209, 1811%
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
Graphite leads with 22% of the painting, and umber follows with 16%.
Khaki is the accent: only 3% of the painting, but enough to lift the rest.
Light and dark are far apart: from parchment at value 8 down to charcoal 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 (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.
