Huge tapestries made by Wayne hung on the walls — in black, white, and charcoal shades — along with prints and a piece made from painted Styrofoam that looked like mica.
Days before he was last seen by a roommate the night of Dec. 14, the student, Matthew Wilson, 20, a computer science junior from Haworth, Okla., bought a car cover, a car window shade, charcoal and matches, said a Rice spokesman, B. J. Almond.
Smoke from factories painted the stones of the old town a shade of charcoal grey and the estuary became a dead zone.
Coat those walls of yours in the perfect shade of charcoal gray.
Elena Comendador's costumes, in various somber shades of charcoal and ink blue, were dreary.
The latter is red but in combination with chromium gives shades of charcoal, gray, and black; it is used mainly to dye silk and leather.
Together, the architects and clients chose a white Alabama marble, whose beautiful veins, in shades of charcoal darkening to black, look like a Chinese brush painting.
The only shadows here are the clothes, the loose-collared, inky black denim jackets and elongated sleeveless shirts in various shades of charcoal that suggest, as Mr. Owens said, "workers' uniforms from an Art Deco prison".
The amazingly nuanced "sfumato," or vaporous blurring of contours, that give his final painted objects such an arresting three-dimensional appearance are based, he said, on years of practice, particularly with gradations of shading in charcoal on paper.
