James Lobley Palette 1

Palette Analysis

James Lobley occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Yellow, ochre, sienna: warm hues that James Lobley deploys as the palette's primary energy. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The saturated accent, #5D4A35, registers at 7.6% - sparse enough to feel like a deliberate surprise. 78 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. In the context of James Lobley's full range of palettes, group 1 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.