Shearing the Rams Color Palette — Tom Roberts (1890)

- maroon
- rust
- sienna
- ochre
- orange
- ochre
About this palette
Shearing the Rams is a painting by Tom Roberts, dated 1890. It comes from Oceanian art of the second half of the 19th century.
Its six colors run from maroon (#411007) up to ochre (#CF8A29), passing through rust, sienna, ochre. It is a palette with moderate contrast with rich, saturated tones, mostly warm (lightness 13 to 63 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of August 24, 2026. The tiles show no numbers: the smallest tile is maroon, and each merge steps along the palette. The six colors land exactly on the 2, 32, 128, 256, 512 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is ochre.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048