Hendrik Jacobus Scholten is high-key - luminous, open, and weighted toward light. Temperature reads distinctly warm: the reds and earth tones from Hendrik Jacobus Scholten carry the compositional weight. Chroma is held at a comfortable level - distinct colours, but no single hue is allowed to overwhelm. The chromatic peak belongs to #FCFAF1, and at 8.3% it dominates, not decorates. At 68 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. This is palette 1 of Hendrik Jacobus Scholten's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.