still life occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Built on cool foundations: the palette favours the blue-cyan-green arc. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The highest-chroma note - #6B4821 - appears at just 8.9%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. The full value range is 57 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively.