Monochromatic vs Underpainting - What's the difference?
monochromatic | underpainting |
Having only one color, represented by differing hues and tints. For example shades in a black and white television.
Perceptive of only one color; unable to distinguish colors; total color blindness.
(figuratively) Plain, dull, lifeless.
(arts) An initial layer of paint, often monochromatic, applied to a ground as a base for subsequent layers.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 13, author=Carol Kino, title=Something There Is That Loves a Wall, work=New York Times
, passage=He would start with a stenciled acrylic underpainting and finish by making marks with the chalk and charcoal shells. }}
As an adjective monochromatic
is having only one color, represented by differing hues and tints for example shades in a black and white television.As a noun underpainting is
(arts) an initial layer of paint, often monochromatic, applied to a ground as a base for subsequent layers.monochromatic
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* (single colored) polychromatic, multicolored, colorful, full color. * (single color perceptiveness) polychromatic. * (lifeless) lively, colorful, vivid.underpainting
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