Fruits of the Midi color palette
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881. The five main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The five colors
- Deep lichen#567A74RGB 86, 122, 11625%
- Lichen#84988DRGB 132, 152, 14120%
- Sage mist#D5DED5RGB 213, 222, 21319%
- Rust#B7553ERGB 183, 85, 6210%
- Leaf green#939D4FRGB 147, 157, 797%
Shares are of the whole painting, rounded. Make your own palette from any picture with Image to Palette.
How the colors work
Deep lichen leads with 25% of the painting, and lichen follows with 20%.
Its values run from 5 (deep lichen) to 9 (sage mist), on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white): a middle range, neither hard nor hazy.
It leans cool: cool colors cover 40%, warm ones 12%.
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.
Sage mist 9
Lichen 6
Leaf green 6
Deep lichen 5
Rust 5
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.
