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Camaïeu (also called en camaïeu) is a technique that employs two or three tint
Tint

In color theory, a tint is the mixture of a color with white.Tint may also refer to:* Tint control, an adjustment to correct for phase error in the picture color on a NTSC television set...
s of a single color
Color

Color or colour is the visual perception property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, blue and others....
, 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
Grisaille

Grisaille is a term for painting executed entirely in monochrome, usually in shades of grey or brown, particularly used in decoration to represent objects in relief....
; when in yellow, cirage.

The term is also applied to monochrome painting in enamels. This technique uses a buildup of white enamel to create highlights and light areas.






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Camaïeu (also called en camaïeu) is a technique that employs two or three tint
Tint

In color theory, a tint is the mixture of a color with white.Tint may also refer to:* Tint control, an adjustment to correct for phase error in the picture color on a NTSC television set...
s of a single color
Color

Color or colour is the visual perception property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, blue and others....
, 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
Grisaille

Grisaille is a term for painting executed entirely in monochrome, usually in shades of grey or brown, particularly used in decoration to represent objects in relief....
; when in yellow, cirage.

The term is also applied to monochrome painting in enamels. This technique uses a buildup of white enamel to create highlights and light areas. However, instead of using a black background, as in grisaille, transparent enamel is laid in first, beneath the whites. This technique is frequently used on snuffboxes, watches, and medallions.

Camaïeu can also refer, following the French usage, to chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro

Chiaroscuro is a term in art for a contrast between light and dark. The term is usually applied to bold contrasts affecting a whole composition, but is also more technically used by artists and art historians for the use of effects representing contrasts of light, not necessarily strong, to achieve a sense of volume in modeling three-di...
 woodcut
Woodcut

Woodcut - formally known as Xylography - is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with gouges....
 prints
Old master print

An old master print is a work of art produced by a printing process within the Western tradition . A date of about 1830 is usually taken as marking the end of the period whose prints are covered by this term....
 that imitate highlighted drawing on tinted paper. However the correct term in English for these is chiaroscuro woodcuts.

This French word once was synonymous with cameo, but its meaning became restricted in the early eighteenth century.

Camaieu is also a registered trade mark of a manufacturer.

See also

  • Chiaroscuro
    Chiaroscuro

    Chiaroscuro is a term in art for a contrast between light and dark. The term is usually applied to bold contrasts affecting a whole composition, but is also more technically used by artists and art historians for the use of effects representing contrasts of light, not necessarily strong, to achieve a sense of volume in modeling three-di...
  • Grisaille
    Grisaille

    Grisaille is a term for painting executed entirely in monochrome, usually in shades of grey or brown, particularly used in decoration to represent objects in relief....
  • Moiré pattern
    Moiré pattern

    In physics, a moir? pattern is an interference pattern created, for example, when two grids are overlaid at an angle, or when they have slightly different mesh sizes....
  • Monochrome
    Monochrome

    Monochrome comes from the Greek language ?????????? , meaning ?of one color?, which is a combination of ????? , meaning ?alone? or ?solitary?, and ????a , meaning ?color?....