The value structure of Charles Laval is mid-key: quiet, controlled, and cohesive. Blues and teal-greys govern the palette, lending it an aquatic or atmospheric quality. A restrained, mid-chroma palette: every hue is present and legible, but nothing shouts. The most saturated colour, #6898EA, is reserved to 5.6% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. The value range of 51 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 1 of Charles Laval's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.