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35 Inspiring Color Palettes from Master Painters

By Shane on April 28, 2009in Inspiration | 2 Comments

Putting together a great color palette for your design work can be one of the most challenging aspects of any

project. And many times, color palettes are built from some source of inspiration. So why not be inspired by

some of historys greatest master artists?

Colour Lovers has a lot of great tools including the ability to create color palettes auto-magically from pics

you find around the web. Its a great way to find inspiration when building your palette.

Of course, computer algorithms are not perfect; they miss key accent colors frequently and make

questionable decisions on extracting the dominant tones. BUT, this is an exercise in inspiration, so theres a

certain advantage to these imperfections.

Long story short here are 35 color pallets extracted from the work of some amazing painters with relative

ease thanks to the Colour Lovers tools:

William Blake

Ancient of Days

William Adolphe Bouguereau

Birth of Venus

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Nymphs and Satyr

Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros

Alexandre Cabanel

Cleopatra

Paul Cezanne

The Basket of Apples

La Montagne Saint Victoire Barnes


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Leonardo Da VinciThe Mona Lisa

St. Anne

Vitruvian Man

Edward Degas

Ballet Rehearsal

Thomas Eakins

Max Schmitt in a Single Scull


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Paul GauguinTahitian Women on the Beach

Gustav Klimt

Danae

The Kiss

Henri Matisse

The Green Line

The Joy of Life


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Claude MonetSunrise

Jackson Pollock

Lavender Mist

Number 8

Raphael Sanzio

St Catherine of Alexandria

St George and the Dragon


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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti SimoniSistine Chapel Detail

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Self Portrait

Pierre Auguste Renoir

Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette

Girls at the Piano


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Georges Seurat

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

James Tissot

Croquet

Seaside

JMW Turner

The Fighting Temeraire

Vincent Van Gogh

Red Vineyards


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Starry Night

Vase with 12 Sunflowers

John William Waterhouse

Hylas and the Nymphs

The Lady of Shallot

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