Generative AI has a reputation for stealing artists' work—and for good reason. Luckily, there are now tools you can use to stop these AI programs from scraping your art.

Then again, if grisaille is in some sense always a diminishment of the painter’s means, it is a diminishment that becomes a test of the artist’s mettle—of the ability to do more with less.

In 1625, Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens wrote that he was creating an oil sketch of the Three Graces using opalescent gray and warm brown hues— “en grisaille et non couleurs”— thus ...