Arman Manookian occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Arman Manookian keeps warm and cool in parity, a balance that lends the work a perceptual shimmer. A restrained, mid-chroma palette: every hue is present and legible, but nothing shouts. The saturated accent, #6885AE, registers at 9.4% - sparse enough to feel like a deliberate surprise. The palette spans 38 value units: a measured range that delivers coherence over drama. Together these qualities point to the open-air Impressionist method: recording light rather than local colour. Taken together, these qualities constitute Arman Manookian's chromatic voice - distinctive enough to be read across an entire body of work.