Chiaroscuro means the balance of light and dark in the picture. Works that use this technique can be described as natural or realistic art pieces. Fig. 5-10 Paul Colin’s Figure of a Woman uses this technique by using a black crayon to indicate shadow and white crayon to show the impression of light. Tenebrism is a new level of chiaroscuro. The word tenebroso means “murky” and it is the opposite of chiaroscuro. Tenebrism makes use of enormous areas of dark opposing sharply with smaller brightly illuminated
