Two Sisters (On the Terrace) color palette
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881. The six main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The six colors
- Stone#A2A7A1RGB 162, 167, 16121%
- Pewter#919296RGB 145, 146, 15017%
- Sage#838D5ARGB 131, 141, 9016%
- Storm#375356RGB 55, 83, 8610%
- Ink blue#293560RGB 41, 53, 967%
- Lacquer red#AA4743RGB 170, 71, 674%
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 21% of the painting, and pewter follows with 17%.
Lacquer red is the accent: only 4% of the painting, but strong enough to catch the eye.
Its values run from 2 (ink blue) to 7 (stone), on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white): a middle range, neither hard nor hazy.
Most of it is near-neutral (65% of these colors): grays, browns and creams that let the few real colors speak.
Sage and ink 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.
