Spell. New moon.

Kedzhrivala Collection, Bangalore, Karnataka, India · 45.5 x 79.6 cm

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.
Spell. New moon. by Nicholas Roerich

Color Palette

✦ Edit in generator

Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
11.3
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
47.3
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
2.9
cool
Dominant Hue
#000F57 blue

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 300°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 11.3
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 47.3
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 11.3 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Spell. New moon." (1938) reads as a deep, vivid-saturation cool palette built around Blue and Sage. One color carries 70% of the picture plane, anchoring the composition. A low-prevalence accent at #A5AB9E pulls the eye.

Example use cases

Subject Tags

Build a palette inspired by Spell. New moon.
Open in generator with 10 colors pre-loaded

I Love This!

Use This Palette
Copy, export, or download for your project
Copy:
Download:
Share:

Artworks with a similar color profile

Nearest neighbours by brightness, saturation, warmth and hue across the full corpus.

More by Nicholas Roerich

More from Symbolism

← Browse all artworks