The Oxbow color palette
Thomas Cole, 1836. The six main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The six colors
- Stone#A9A8A1RGB 169, 168, 16128%
- Taupe#7F7167RGB 127, 113, 10316%
- Black olive#24230BRGB 36, 35, 1114%
- Khaki#745F2DRGB 116, 95, 458%
- Dark olive#404011RGB 64, 64, 177%
- Straw#A27C3ARGB 162, 124, 582%
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
Stone leads with 28% of the painting, and taupe follows with 16%.
Straw is the accent: only 2% of the painting, but enough to lift the rest.
Light and dark are far apart: from stone at value 7 down to black olive at 1, on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white). That range gives the painting its strong contrast.
It leans warm: warm colors cover 41%, cool ones under 1%.
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.
