mythological painting 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. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. #725040 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (9.4%). The value range of 51 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme.