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This photo was inspired by Willem Kalf's "Still Life with a Chinese Porcelain Jar" (oil on canvas, 1669) which can be seen at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. I tried to recreate the composition and lighting as close as the original as possible. However, I had to use my own pieces as substitute Kalf's. He used a gilded, quite ornate base for a berkemeyer and a smaller roemer, objects I do not posses. I substituted those for a flute glass and a wine glass. As was customary to see in his paintings, note he reflection of the orange on the silver plate.

You love paintings, you would love to paint but you have trained yourself as a photographer. Can you merge your two artistic passions? I did…. I grew up admiring classic paintings, specially the Renaissance and the Dutch Golden Age periods.There is one particular feature of Dutch Golden Age paintings that led me to believe that I could try to reproduce them. Their level of detail is unparalleled in painting history, they look like photographs. Some are so detailed, that they can trick you into the removal of an ant or to scare away a fly. I decided to use a photographic camera to replace the hard work of the brushes, paint, the strokes.This is how I came up with the concept of Photographic Painting, which is the creation of a...