Max Meldrum Palette 3

Palette Analysis

The palette of Max Meldrum sits in the lower register of the value scale - dense, contained, and weighted. Cool hues prevail: blues, greens, and greys anchor the palette's emotional temperature. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. 25.3% of the palette belongs to #161512, a concentration that makes it the unmistakable visual centre. The highest-chroma note - #77593C - appears at just 2.1%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. The palette spans 45 value units: a measured range that delivers coherence over drama. This tonal restraint is characteristic of the Max Meldrum approach: colour serves light, not the reverse. This is palette 3 of Max Meldrum's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.