Aleksey Antropov occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. The dominant temperature is warm, with earth tones and fire-hues setting the emotional key. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. The most saturated colour, #F3E2BB, is reserved to 8.2% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. 70 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. These proportions encode Aleksey Antropov's instinctive sense of how much of each quality the eye can hold.