James Hayllar Palette 1

Palette Analysis

James Hayllar distributes its values across the middle register, creating harmony without high contrast. James Hayllar builds on cool foundations: the palette favours the blue-cyan-green arc. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. The most saturated colour, #434613, is reserved to 11.7% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. At 59 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. The mid-to-high key, cool bias, and moderate chroma point to outdoor observation - sky and diffused daylight as the dominant light source. This is palette 1 of James Hayllar's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.