still life occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. The artist keeps warm and cool in parity, a balance that lends the work a perceptual shimmer. Saturation is measured and controlled, giving the palette presence without visual aggression. #E3C058 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (3.1%). The full value range is 63 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. Together these qualities point to the open-air Impressionist method: recording light rather than local colour.