Marianne Stokes sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained light. Yellow, ochre, sienna: warm hues that Marianne Stokes deploys as the palette's primary energy. Colours are neither washed out nor blazing; they occupy the productive middle ground of the chroma scale. The chromatic peak belongs to #CC3D33, and at 23.2% it dominates, not decorates. Spanning 50 units on the value axis, the palette achieves the balance between tonal flatness and fragmentation. Marianne Stokes's palette 5 carries its own internal logic while remaining in conversation with the artist's broader colour intelligence.