James McDougal Hart Palette 3

Palette Analysis

Values in James McDougal Hart rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. Cool tones set the register here - the blues and greens easily outweigh any warm accents. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. #FAFAFA at 28.5% of the palette: an overwhelming presence that pulls all other colours into its gravitational field. The most saturated colour, #4D3C27, is reserved to 10.3% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. The full value range is 71 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. This is palette 3 of James McDougal Hart's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.