grisaille

IPA: grˈɪsˈeɪɫ

(art) In painting, a method of working which employs only varying values of gray to create form. Often a preliminary step in a fully colored painting.
A stained-glass window in this style.

Examples of "grisaille" in Sentences

The thickening branches make a pink 'grisaille' against the blue sky.
"grisaille," painted by Uccello, in the fifteenth century, in memory of
He had noticed that wide double doors, painted in the pale brownish grey called grisaille, formed the further side of the tiny apartment.
A dramatic chandelier of 18th-century lead crystal hangs from a fraying hemp rope, while a modern tripod floor lamp illuminates an antique grisaille wallpaper panel by Zuber.
Copenhagen-Humlebaek Art "Louisiana on Paper: Vija Celmins" presents a selection of sketches by the Latvian artist known for capturing the realism of black-and-white photography in her grisaille technique.
The outlines are traced and during the Renaissance, the canvas was painted with a burnt umber ground and an image made using a cloth or a brush to pull out highlights and make a high contrast underpainting called a grisaille.
When Braque, working from the landscape in 1908, develops a range of whites, blacks, grays, greens and browns in his Cubist paintings, he isn't limiting his palette but inventing a new language inspired equally by Parisian light, modern scientific investigation and Renaissance grisaille.
February may be the shortest month but rather than see the City of Light doused in grisaille grayness, Parisians go skiing or in search of winter sun—preferably in a corner of the former French empire where there's no danger of English being the lingua franca or steaks being served well-done.