John Leech Palette 3

Palette Analysis

John Leech keeps values measured and balanced, a hallmark of tonal restraint. 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. #6C5845 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (3.1%). The value range spans 55 units across the palette, providing the full gamut from deep shadow to near-white and ensuring clear tonal hierarchy. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. In the context of John Leech's full range of palettes, group 3 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.