Lemuel Francis Abbott Palette 7

Palette Analysis

Lemuel Francis Abbott occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Yellow, ochre, sienna: warm hues that Lemuel Francis Abbott deploys as the palette's primary energy. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. 33.1% of the palette belongs to #14110D, a concentration that makes it the unmistakable visual centre. #A46436 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (2.1%). A value spread of 61 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. In the context of Lemuel Francis Abbott's full range of palettes, group 7 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.