Ethel Carrick is strongly light-biased - shadow is suggested rather than declared. Temperature reads distinctly warm: the reds and earth tones from Ethel Carrick carry the compositional weight. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. #6499BA delivers the chromatic peak at only 7.1% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. 56 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. This is palette 1 of Ethel Carrick's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.