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Paint colors for your home, inside and out

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Painting Palettes

Room palettes measured from public-domain paintings: real colors, light reflectance, paint ideas and room schemes.

Medea Rejuvenating Aeson Corrado Giaquinto, ca. 1760 Moses Striking the Rock Abraham Bloemaert, 1596 Saint Nicholas Providing Dowries Bicci di Lorenzo, 1433–35 Madonna and Child Enthroned Master of the Magdalen Still Life Georg Flegel, probably ca. 1625–30 The Entombment Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino), 1554 Putti Harvesting Wheat Piat Joseph Sauvage The Musician Bartholomeus van der Helst, 1662 Study for a Portrait of a Woman Sir Peter Lely (Pieter van der Faes), 1670s Landscape with a Cave Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny
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Light & Pigment

Paint color guides for real rooms and real light. Colors on screen differ from paint on a wall, so always test a sample.

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