Water Lilies color palette
Claude Monet, 1906. The six main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The six colors
- Denim#457495RGB 69, 116, 14937%
- Storm#2C595DRGB 44, 89, 9330%
- Moss#477851RGB 71, 120, 818%
- Stone#A7B1B1RGB 167, 177, 1775%
- Dark slate#133C41RGB 19, 60, 652%
- Lacquer red#9C4947RGB 156, 73, 71under 1%
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
Denim leads with 37% of the painting, and storm follows with 30%.
Lacquer red is the accent: only 1% of the painting, but strong enough to catch the eye.
Its values run from 2 (dark slate) to 7 (stone), on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white): a middle range, neither hard nor hazy.
It leans cool: cool colors cover 94%, warm ones under 1%.
Denim and lacquer red 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.
