Values in Gerrit Battem rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. Gerrit Battem tilts toward cool - blues and silver-greys carry the structural weight. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. #685D38 delivers the chromatic peak at only 10.0% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. At 66 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. These proportions encode Gerrit Battem's instinctive sense of how much of each quality the eye can hold.