Louis Valtat sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained light. Louis Valtat tilts toward cool - blues and silver-greys carry the structural weight. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. The most saturated colour, #9CA53C, is reserved to 4.5% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. The value range of 53 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. Palette 3 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Louis Valtat's complete body of work advances.