Circus Sideshow color palette
Georges Seurat, 1887–88. The six main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The six colors
- Plum black#463D43RGB 70, 61, 6729%
- Olive drab#574F3DRGB 87, 79, 6124%
- Terracotta#805147RGB 128, 81, 718%
- Fawn#A58269RGB 165, 130, 1054%
- Storm#4C576FRGB 76, 87, 1112%
- Deep blue#1F2D4CRGB 31, 45, 762%
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
Plum black leads with 29% of the painting, and olive drab follows with 24%.
Deep blue is the accent: only 2% of the painting, but enough to lift the rest.
Its values run from 2 (deep blue) to 6 (fawn), on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white): a middle range, neither hard nor hazy.
Most of it is near-neutral (77% of these colors): grays, browns and creams that let the few real colors speak.
Fawn and deep blue 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.
