Light floods Jose Maria Velasco; the palette keeps values pale and airy across its range. Temperature is cool-dominant, with blue and green families claiming the largest areas. Muted throughout, the palette achieves its effects through value and temperature rather than chromatic force. The most saturated colour, #E7DDB5, is reserved to 2.4% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. The value range of 39 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 1 of Jose Maria Velasco's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.