animal painting 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. A restrained, mid-chroma palette: every hue is present and legible, but nothing shouts. Only 7.2% is devoted to #80703A, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. The full value range is 57 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. Together these qualities point to the open-air Impressionist method: recording light rather than local colour.