Sydney Laurence is strongly light-biased - shadow is suggested rather than declared. Cool tones set the register here - the blues and greens easily outweigh any warm accents. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. #A17A4D delivers the chromatic peak at only 3.9% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 67 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. This is palette 1 of Sydney Laurence's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.