John Wilson Carmichael Palette 2

Palette Analysis

John Wilson Carmichael is high-key - luminous, open, and weighted toward light. Blues and teal-greys govern the palette, lending it an aquatic or atmospheric quality. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The most saturated colour, #AA9D7A, is reserved to 10.2% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 68 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. John Wilson Carmichael's palette 2 carries its own internal logic while remaining in conversation with the artist's broader colour intelligence.