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A.Word.A.Day--grisaille grisaille (gri-ZAI, ZAYL) noun A painting in tones of a single color, especially gray, to represent objects in relief. [From French grisaille (grayness), from gris (gray).] An example: Odalisque in Grisaille by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. Today's word in Visual Thesaurus 3. "And the tenants-only restaurant and bar on the uppermost floors -- with their muted grisaille tones, baroque silver staircase surrounding a cylindrical glass elevator, and 360-degree views of all London -- are almost too perfect to believe." David Littlejohn; It's a Pickle, It's a Pineapple -- It's a Brilliant New Skyscraper; The Wall Street Journal (New York); Sep 13, 2004. "Mr. Okshteyn's large, grisaille photorealistic pictures are technically impressive, especially the ones made from graphite." Art Guide; The New York Times; Mar 14, 2003. This week's theme: words related to art. X-Bonus Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people. -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

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