George Philip Reinagle Palette 5

Palette Analysis

Values in George Philip Reinagle rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. A distinctly cool atmosphere runs through this palette: sky, water, and mist given colour form. Muted throughout, the palette achieves its effects through value and temperature rather than chromatic force. The most saturated colour, #665633, is reserved to 7.8% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 55 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. Palette 5 sits within the larger chromatic argument that George Philip Reinagle's complete body of work advances.