Jessie Arms Botke Palette 1

Palette Analysis

Jessie Arms Botke occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. A distinctly cool atmosphere runs through this palette: sky, water, and mist given colour form. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. Only 4.6% is devoted to #CEA949, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 62 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. In the context of Jessie Arms Botke's full range of palettes, group 1 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.