Glass is pretty much monochromatic, so the first secret to making the portraits pop is creating dimension through light and dark sections. The process is similar to a pencil artist drawing on a ...

The Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert was an insomniac, so he spent his nights wandering around his hometown in search of inspiration. Read more here.

1872-73, oil on canvas, The Art Archive / Alamy Stock Photo Still Life with Green Apples (Paul Cezanne, 1873) is almost completely monochromatic ... and Black No. 1 / Portrait of the Artist ...