David Cox Palette 3

Palette Analysis

Values in David Cox tilt decisively toward white, giving the palette its luminous character. The dominant temperature is warm, with earth tones and fire-hues setting the emotional key. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. #FAF8FA at 31.6% of the palette: an overwhelming presence that pulls all other colours into its gravitational field. #9D8754 delivers the chromatic peak at only 4.2% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. A value spread of 74 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. In the context of David Cox's full range of palettes, group 3 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.