Juan Jiménez Martín Master Palette

Palette Analysis

Juan Jiménez Martín occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Juan Jiménez Martín builds on cool foundations: the palette favours the blue-cyan-green arc. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. #E5D1B1 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (6.0%). A value spread of 67 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. These proportions encode Juan Jiménez Martín's instinctive sense of how much of each quality the eye can hold.