Penry Williams Palette 2

Palette Analysis

Penry Williams sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained light. Penry Williams tilts toward cool - blues and silver-greys carry the structural weight. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. #5E5938 delivers the chromatic peak at only 7.1% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. A value spread of 56 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. Palette 2 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Penry Williams's complete body of work advances.