Bosschaert -Flower Bouquet in vase with watch #1 Canvas Print

Inspired by the works of Ambrosious Bosschaert and his followers. This arrangement includes one flamed tulip as commonly seen in his paintings. The composition includes a watch, a fallen flower one butterfly and a dragonfly. These are all symbols of the transience of life and the temporary nature of beauty, Bosschaert used a similar vase in a closed niche, I set mine on a table.

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...