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Beatrix is at it again, she has seen her mother, Catharina Bolnes using a balance to weight coins when paying or receiving payment. This is how she makes sure that they get the right payment for her husband paintings. She thought that the balance movement could easily serve as a teeter totter for her dollhouse dolls to have some fun.
Inspired by Johannes Vermeer painting "Woman Holding a Balance" c.1662-1663 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

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...