The value structure of Theodor van Thulen is mid-key: quiet, controlled, and cohesive. The dominant temperature is warm, with earth tones and fire-hues setting the emotional key. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. At 6.4%, #DCB37E carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 57 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. Palette 2 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Theodor van Thulen's complete body of work advances.