Some of the low-toned colours make the wearers look positively ghastly.
Carpaccio, one might argue, employed a color scheme of low-toned ochers and browns.
It is a painting of naked female flesh, white and bright against a low-toned, even gloomy seascape.
His low-toned paintings showed him as a realist painter with a strong social consciousness.
The brilliant colour and strong light of Africa had a profound and long-lasting effect on his painting, dissipating his low-toned palette and bringing vivid colour to his bold African native compositions.