Creating a grayscale in your painting means that you are creating value graphs that determine the relativity of blacks to white in your painting. This kind of relativity of values ​​goes from black at the weakest intensity to white at the strongest.

Grayscale images are also called monochrome images. This is because they do not contain any color at all. Images that contain only black and white are known as binary images or two-level images. The gray scale is more identified with photography than with painting.

Monochrome palettes only have a few shades of gray and don’t stray as much from black and white. A monochrome palette may have only eight, sixteen, or 24 colors. Monochrome graphics usually have a black background with a white or gray image, but conversely, a white background with black and gray graphics is also possible.

Even more limited is a two-bit grayscale consisting only of the colors black and white and two shades of gray. A four-bit grayscale consists of black and white and fourteen shades of gray. We often see four-bit grayscale in use in primitive computer graphics.

In oil, acrylic, or other types of painting, the purpose may be to convert color images to grayscale. This can sometimes be done on a computer using pixels. The painter can then reference the pixelated image to create a painting with shades of gray, or a monochrome painting in which the same color is applied over and over again.

Converting from color to grayscale can be quite tricky. It has to do with obtaining the values ​​of the primary colors in the image. This is any of the red, blue, or green values ​​in the image. It is 30% of the red value, 59% of the green value, and 11% of the blue value that typically make up the grayscale.

Classic grayscale is a color mode that is made up of 256 shades of gray. These are known as monochrome and RGB palettes. Each palette is represented by series of color swatches.