Alexei Korzukhin occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Alexei Korzukhin tilts toward cool - blues and silver-greys carry the structural weight. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. At 8.2%, #866E3B carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. The full value range is 68 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. Alexei Korzukhin's palette 1 carries its own internal logic while remaining in conversation with the artist's broader colour intelligence.