Charles Turner Palette 13

Palette Analysis

Charles Turner distributes its values across the middle register, creating harmony without high contrast. Cool hues prevail: blues, greens, and greys anchor the palette's emotional temperature. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. Only 5.5% is devoted to #DBD4C4, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 57 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. This is palette 13 of Charles Turner's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.