Christopher Wood Palette 1

Palette Analysis

Christopher Wood is high in key: pale, luminous, and filled with optical air. Temperature is cool-dominant, with blue and green families claiming the largest areas. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The dominant colour, #CFD4D2, takes 30.0% of the total area, establishing the overall mood before any other hue is introduced. #7DC4A8 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (2.1%). 68 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 1 of Christopher Wood's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.