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Light blue

#ADD8E6

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Light blue (#ADD8E6) is a light cool shade that appears across 10 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Thomas Leitner, Jean Alexandru Steriadi, and P. C. Skovgaard and the Academic Art tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Bone (#E3DAC9), Field drab (#6C541E), and Khaki (#C3B091). The combination forms an airy, hazy chord, built on a complementary hue split, leans on warm companions to lift a cool source color, with a moderate step down in value that keeps the source forward.

Artworks Featuring This Color

Standing Nude palette card
Standing Nude
Raoul Dufy · 1930
Summer day at Møns Klint palette card
Summer day at Møns Klint
P. C. Skovgaard · 1850
Cart on the Snow Covered Road with Saint-Simeon Farm palette card
Cart on the Snow Covered Road with Saint-Simeon Farm
Claude Monet · 1865
Moroccan Café palette card
Moroccan Café
Henri Matisse · 1912
Study of mountains palette card
Study of mountains
Nicholas Roerich · 1944
Tanglewood Tales palette card
Tanglewood Tales
Virginia Frances Sterrett · 1921

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Light blue

6 palettes where Light blue appears prominently — one per artist.

Metaphysical art Palette 2 - Pearlescent Whisper

Metaphysical art

27.9% Light blue

Jean Alexandru Steriadi Palette 1 - Blazing Alabaster

Jean Alexandru Steriadi

26.3% Light blue

P. C. Skovgaard Palette 1 - Gleaming Reverie

P. C. Skovgaard

24.9% Light blue

Karl Hauptmann Palette 3 - Silvery Gossamer

Karl Hauptmann

23.4% Light blue

Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky Palette 4 - Pearlescent Whisper

Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky

22.1% Light blue

Juan Lepiani Palette 2 - Veiled Stone

Juan Lepiani

18.6% Light blue

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