Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes color palette
Marie Denise Villers, 1801. The six main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The six colors
- Ink brown#2C251FRGB 44, 37, 3149%
- Charcoal#3E3F38RGB 62, 63, 5617%
- Slate green#526A67RGB 82, 106, 1039%
- Espresso#673E38RGB 103, 62, 565%
- Straw#98805ARGB 152, 128, 903%
- Parchment#D9D1B9RGB 217, 209, 1851%
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
Ink brown rules this painting: it covers 49%, close to half of it.
Straw 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 ink brown 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 (91% 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.
