Pierre-Antoine Patel occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Pierre-Antoine Patel keeps warm and cool in parity, a balance that lends the work a perceptual shimmer. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. Pierre-Antoine Patel gives 25.0% of the composition to a single #3C3227 - a decisive chromatic anchor. The most saturated colour, #CBAA5E, is reserved to 10.0% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. 47 units of value spread create a palette that is varied but unified - contrast in the service of harmony. The palette is recognisably Pierre-Antoine Patel's own: particular in its temperature, chroma, and the economy of its brightest note.