George Dawe keeps values measured and balanced, a hallmark of tonal restraint. Cool tones set the register here - the blues and greens easily outweigh any warm accents. Colours are neither washed out nor blazing; they occupy the productive middle ground of the chroma scale. #AD4C13 delivers the chromatic peak at only 4.3% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. The full value range is 55 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. This is palette 1 of George Dawe's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.