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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.

Young Mother Gazing at Her Child William Bouguereau, 1871 Portrait of a Man with a Watch Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen the Younger, 1657 Troops on the March Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater, ca. 1725 Still Life with Apples and Pitcher Camille Pissarro, 1872 Count Giacomo Durazzo (1717–1794) and Ernestine Aloisia Ungnad von Weissenwolff (1732–1794) Martin van Meytens the Younger, probably early 1760s Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848) Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1789 Portrait of a Woman Jan van Ravesteyn, 1635 Guardroom with the Deliverance of Saint Peter David Teniers the Younger, ca. 1645–47 The Triumph of Bacchus Piat Joseph Sauvage, early 1780s Portrait of a Young Man Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura), 1470s
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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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