Richard Caton Woodville Sr. Palette 2

Palette Analysis

Richard Caton Woodville Sr. sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained light. Blues and teal-greys govern the palette, lending it an aquatic or atmospheric quality. All colours lean toward grey, building depth through value rather than colour punch. The most saturated colour, #69482C, is reserved to 8.4% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 61 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 2 of Richard Caton Woodville Sr.'s sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.