35 Inspiring Color Palettes from Master Painters
By Shane on April 28, 2009
in Inspiration | 17 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 history’s 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. It’s 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 there’s 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
William Adolphe Bouguereau
Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros
Alexandre Cabanel
Paul Cezanne
La Montagne Saint Victoire Barnes
Leonardo Da Vinci
Edward Degas
Thomas Eakins
Paul Gauguin
Gustav Klimt
Henri Matisse
Claude Monet
Jackson Pollock
Raphael Sanzio
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette
Georges Seurat
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
James Tissot
JMW Turner
Vincent Van Gogh
John William Waterhouse
