landscape occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. The artist keeps warm and cool in parity, a balance that lends the work a perceptual shimmer. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. Only 4.1% is devoted to #A0854D, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. 59 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls.