A Grey Day

Brooding Basalt
Brooding Low-key and emotionally weighted - dark values with a sense of psychological depth.
Basalt Dark blue-gray - the color of volcanic rock, cool and dense.
A Grey Day by Franklin Carmichael

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
43.1
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
14.6
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-7.5
cool
Dominant Hue
#556875 blue

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 254°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 43.1
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 14.6
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 43.1 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"A Grey Day" (1928) reads as a shadowed, mid-saturation cool palette built around Slate and Blue. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #8F6B49 pulls the eye.

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