abstract keeps values measured and balanced, a hallmark of tonal restraint. Warm and cool are kept in productive tension, creating the kind of chromatic harmony that sustains the eye. Mid-range chroma keeps the palette grounded - colourful but not strident. The highest-chroma note - #E2B14D - appears at just 6.3%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. A value spread of 64 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. Together these qualities point to the open-air Impressionist method: recording light rather than local colour.