Christian August Lorentzen Palette 3

Palette Analysis

Light floods Christian August Lorentzen; the palette keeps values pale and airy across its range. Blues and teal-greys govern the palette, lending it an aquatic or atmospheric quality. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. A single dominant - #C9BEA5 at 25.9% - sets the character of the whole composition. #7C5532 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (1.4%). The value range spans 69 units across the palette, providing the full gamut from deep shadow to near-white and ensuring clear tonal hierarchy. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 3 of Christian August Lorentzen's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.