The value structure of battle painting is mid-key: quiet, controlled, and cohesive. The dominant temperature is warm, with earth tones and fire-hues setting the emotional key. Colours are neither washed out nor blazing; they occupy the productive middle ground of the chroma scale. #E0C5A2 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (4.7%). 58 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls.