Richard Caton Woodville Jr. Palette 3

Palette Analysis

Richard Caton Woodville Jr. occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Temperature reads distinctly warm: the reds and earth tones from Richard Caton Woodville Jr. carry the compositional weight. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The saturated accent, #BF9D6C, registers at 3.9% - sparse enough to feel like a deliberate surprise. The full value range is 59 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. This is palette 3 of Richard Caton Woodville Jr.'s sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.