Color one

Desert sand

#EDC9AF

Color two

Indigo dye

#00416A

Desert sand (#EDC9AF) and Indigo dye (#00416A) appear together across 6 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Bill Traylor, Emil Nolde, and Louis Soutter and the Outsider art (Art brut) tradition. Painters typically deployed desert sand at an average of 21% of the canvas, with indigo dye at 4%. Third colors most often completing the combination include Deep champagne (#FAD6A5), Medium carmine (#AF4035), and Dark sienna (#3C1414).

Artworks Featuring Desert sand & Indigo dye

Mount Fuji palette card
Mount Fuji
Nicholas Roerich · 1936
Madame Matisse, The Red Madras Headdress palette card
Madame Matisse, The Red Madras Headdress
Henri Matisse · 1907
Mount McKinley, Sunset palette card
Mount McKinley, Sunset
Sydney Laurence
Woodland Stream in a Winter Landscape palette card
Woodland Stream in a Winter Landscape
John Henry Twachtman
Way of giants palette card
Way of giants
Nicholas Roerich · 1914
The battle of Issus palette card
The battle of Issus
Albrecht Altdorfer · 1529

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Desert sand & Indigo dye

6 master palettes where Desert sand and Indigo dye appear together most prominently.

Bill Traylor Palette 2 - Pale Apricot

Bill Traylor

32.4% Desert sand · 5.8% Indigo dye

Art Brut Palette 1 - Pale Apricot

Art Brut

32.4% Desert sand · 5.8% Indigo dye

Emil Nolde Palette 2 - Muted Parchment

Emil Nolde

10.7% Desert sand · 7.0% Indigo dye

Louis Soutter Palette 2 - Muted Topaz

Louis Soutter

23.2% Desert sand · 2.5% Indigo dye

Art Brut Palette 4 - Muted Topaz

Art Brut

23.2% Desert sand · 2.5% Indigo dye

Toros Roslin Master Palette - Muted Caramel

Toros Roslin

6.5% Desert sand · 1.6% Indigo dye

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