Jean-Paul Laurens sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained light. Heat pervades this palette; warm chromatic identities outweigh cool ones at almost every weight. Chroma hovers near zero; colour declares itself through subtle shifts in hue rather than outright saturation. The most saturated colour, #C5744F, is reserved to 5.4% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. 61 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. Jean-Paul Laurens's palette 1 carries its own internal logic while remaining in conversation with the artist's broader colour intelligence.