Arkady Rylov occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Arkady Rylov tilts toward cool - blues and silver-greys carry the structural weight. Mid-range chroma keeps the palette grounded - colourful but not strident. At 8.7%, #B2CC7E 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 63 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. This is palette 1 of Arkady Rylov's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.