Alfred Stannard works in the upper reaches of the value scale, creating an atmosphere of brightness and expansiveness. Warm and cool are kept in productive tension, creating the kind of chromatic harmony that sustains the eye. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. #CBD7E7 claims 34.4% of the surface, functioning as the work's tonal foundation. The most saturated colour, #DDBA7D, is reserved to 3.5% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. The full value range is 67 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. This is palette 2 of Alfred Stannard's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.