Eugène Girardet Palette 4

Palette Analysis

Eugène Girardet occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Warmth dominates - the palette of Eugène Girardet leans heavily on the yellow-orange-red arc of the colour wheel. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. #271D17 at 25.4% of the palette: an overwhelming presence that pulls all other colours into its gravitational field. #E9E7BA functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (5.2%). The full value range is 68 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. In the context of Eugène Girardet's full range of palettes, group 4 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.