wildlife painting is high-key - luminous, open, and weighted toward light. Built on cool foundations: the palette favours the blue-cyan-green arc. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. #D5B398 delivers the chromatic peak at only 10.6% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 62 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.