Antonio Carneiro Palette 1

Palette Analysis

Antonio Carneiro is high-key - luminous, open, and weighted toward light. Cool tones set the register here - the blues and greens easily outweigh any warm accents. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. At 8.4%, #14120C carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 74 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 1 of Antonio Carneiro's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.