Charles Olivier de Penne Palette 2

Palette Analysis

Values in Charles Olivier de Penne rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. Cool hues prevail: blues, greens, and greys anchor the palette's emotional temperature. Muted throughout, the palette achieves its effects through value and temperature rather than chromatic force. Only 9.4% is devoted to #947848, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. A value spread of 60 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 2 of Charles Olivier de Penne's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.