Mid-key values give Patrick Henry Bruce its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Temperature is cool-dominant, with blue and green families claiming the largest areas. Saturation is measured and controlled, giving the palette presence without visual aggression. Rather than a studied accent, #DF3916 takes 26.9% - a bold allocation that saturates the composition's atmosphere. 73 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. This is palette 2 of Patrick Henry Bruce's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.