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35 Inspiring Color Palettes from Master Painters

By Shane on April 28, 2009 in 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 Vinci
The Mona Lisa

St. Anne

Vitruvian Man

Edward Degas
Ballet Rehearsal

Thomas Eakins
Max Schmitt in a Single Scull

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Paul Gauguin
Tahitian Women on the Beach

Gustav Klimt
Danae

The Kiss

Henri Matisse
The Green Line

The Joy of Life

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Claude Monet
Sunrise

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 Simoni

Sistine 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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