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Inspired by Johannes Vermeer "Young Woman with a Water Pitcher" c. 1664-1665 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY).
This is another Vermeer’s “still life”, or life still as the young woman looks like frozen, her gaze lost looking through or at the window. What is she doing? Looking at the stained glass work? A fly? Nobody knows.
Your guess is as good as mine. In my photographic-painting; Beatrix, one of Vermeer's daughters is opening a window to let the fresh air come in. An incoming cool morning breeze touches her face inducing a smirk from the pleasant sensation. She just stood there to enjoy it, forgetting that she should bring the water pitcher to her mother who is waiting.
I had to work hard and innovate to obtain the bluish hue on the girl's bonnet. This is one of Vermeer's trademarks, his use of the ultramarine blue to treat light is well documented. He profusely used lapiz lazuli, hence the longevity of the intense and beautiful color blue in his paintings.

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...