Fire by the water
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.
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light dark
0
100
33.7
vivid muted
0
100
13.5
warm cool
-30
0
+50
4.9
Distribution
avg L 33.7
darklight
avg C 13.5
grayvivid
Brightness Heartbeat
Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.
avg L 33.7 L = 0 L = 100
Palette Analysis
"Fire by the water" (1886) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation balanced palette built around Cream and Beige. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #C3B37B pulls the eye.
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