battle painting occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. The palette orchestrates warmth above all else - reds, ambers, and siennas take the lead. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. The highest-chroma note - #A66445 - appears at just 3.9%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. Value range is moderate at 54 units - enough contrast for legibility, not so much as to fragment the tonal unity.