How to Use grisaille in a Sentence

grisaille

noun

• The focus will be on crafts including enameling techniques such as champlevé and grisaille, as well as marquetry.
  — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• Mockrin does so using a technique known as grisaille, a technique popular during the Baroque.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• In grisaille, figures are fully modeled in the underpainting before adding color on top.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• Most artists use gray tones to underpaint their subjects, a technique known as the grisaille method, but Green uses a watery indigo instead.
  — Latria Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 May 2023
• An initial grisaille watercolor features a gentleman fly-fisher—Homer’s ideal client—about to scoop a trout into his net.
  — Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 31 July 2026