Mid-key values give animal painting its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. The dominant temperature is warm, with earth tones and fire-hues setting the emotional key. Chroma is moderate: colours carry enough saturation to be read as colour, but the palette stops well short of garish intensity. The most saturated colour, #7E501E, is reserved to 10.5% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. The value range of 53 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme.