The composition mainly uses shades of red, white, and grey, which are used even in Venus's skin; although the effect of this simple colour scheme has been much praised, recent technical analysis has shown that the grey sheet was originally a "deep mauve", that has now faded.
It is suggested using the dark grey sheet for a child, for it will be much easier to see.
There are no villages, just a thin scatter of farms and hamlets – "settlements" in the 3,000 islanders' sometimes sepia language – visible for miles when the usual grey cloud sheet overhead tears and a low, golden light rakes the valleys.
Where the new rice should be growing in the late autumn sun, there is a great sheet of grey mud.
Clad in grey, corrugated steel sheets, it has the appearance less of a real structure than of a vast drawing, or some long-destroyed, brutally proportioned mausoleum that has been clipped from an old photograph and montaged on to the real world.
Do you have these in a white double, fitted?" asks a customer, pointing at a grey, king-sized, flat sheet.
Even an otherwise dreary artist such as John Frederick Lewis could take a sheet of grey paper, a pencil, a few dabs of white gouache and make the sunlight strike the ramshackle backs of some old houses in Granada.
A large, rugged boulder sits in the middle of the gallery on a sheet of grey metal.
On bad days, when the rain falls in sheets of grey that form a partition between the edge of the wood and the rest of the world, it's just Jo and I; sometimes just Jo.
Imagining that the people lay the blame on him, Timothy Kightley's amusingly hypochondriac and cowardly King has refused to get out of bed for the past four years (his sheets are grey with grime) and has lost all track of whether it is day or night.
After years of neglect, T159 has been restored to what it was 40 years ago: shiny cement floors, a metal bed with a coir mattress, sheets and grey blankets, a small cupboard, wooden table and chair in one room, and a kettle on a table in the other.
