Usually, paintings are more appealing than photographic images. This is because paintings have styles. This style can be distinguished by looking at elements such as motif, color, shape deformation and brush texture. In our work, we focus on the effect of "color" element and devise a method for transforming the color of an input photograph according to a reference painting. To do this, we consider basic color category concepts in the color transformation process. By doing so, we achieve large but natural color transformations of an image.