Charles de Tournemine Palette 1

Palette Analysis

Charles de Tournemine distributes its values across the middle register, creating harmony without high contrast. Cool tones set the register here - the blues and greens easily outweigh any warm accents. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. The most saturated colour, #DEDF9C, is reserved to 7.3% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 63 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. The mid-to-high key, cool bias, and moderate chroma point to outdoor observation - sky and diffused daylight as the dominant light source. This is palette 1 of Charles de Tournemine's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.