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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.

Portrait of a Young Woman Lorenzo di Credi (Lorenzo d'Andrea d'Oderigo), ca. 1490–1500 Majas on a Balcony Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes), ca. 1800–1810 A Hunting Scene Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio), ca. 1494–1500 Stoke-by-Nayland John Constable, ca. 1810–11 After the Hunt Gustave Courbet, ca. 1859 Yellow Dancers (In the Wings) Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, 1874–76 After a Summer Shower George Inness, 1894 Winged Figure Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1889 York Harbor, Coast of Maine Martin Johnson Heade, 1877 A Friendly Warning Thomas Hicks, 1881–90
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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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