flower painting works in the upper reaches of the value scale, creating an atmosphere of brightness and expansiveness. The dominant temperature is warm, with earth tones and fire-hues setting the emotional key. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. The palette gives 25.4% of the composition to a single #BCB9BA - a decisive chromatic anchor. The most saturated colour, #BFAE83, is reserved to 5.8% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. At 63 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings.