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Painting in shades of one color; monochrome.
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A technique of painting in monochrome, using two or three tints of the same color without regard to realistic colors.
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a monochrome drawing or painting with a single colour, varied only by graduation of the single colour in terms of light and dark
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a painting or decoration technique done in numerous shades of the same single color disregarding the actual color of the content.
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Porcelain decoration using different tones of a single color
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A painting, using varying shades of the same colour.
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Camaïeu (also called en camaïeu) is a technique that employs two or three tints of a single color, other than gray, to create a monochromatic image without regard to local or realistic color. When a picture is monochromatically rendered in gray, it is called grisaille; when in yellow, cirage.
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