Values in flower painting rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. The artist keeps warm and cool in parity, a balance that lends the work a perceptual shimmer. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. The saturated accent, #DDCDAD, registers at 8.2% - sparse enough to feel like a deliberate surprise. 58 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls.