George Dawe sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained light. Warm hues command this palette; George Dawe favours the reds, oranges, and yellows of firelight and earth. Colours are neither washed out nor blazing; they occupy the productive middle ground of the chroma scale. The highest-chroma note - #963E18 - appears at just 4.6%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. Spanning 54 units on the value axis, the palette achieves the balance between tonal flatness and fragmentation. These proportions encode George Dawe's instinctive sense of how much of each quality the eye can hold.