For last of the weeks i was searching for a good photos and examples of flemish still life. For some persoal reasons while ago i did count such still painting very naive thing, specially for the details that attracts only females.
Nowdays i see that i was wrong, still life branch is significally it's own masterpiece value by not only perfectly done details and tecnique. For the following aspect it has its own charm.
This means that paintings has a differ meanings and the artist has it own thoughts playing with composition of the painting.
Composition is the first thing that aknowledge this painting, the other thingthat is turning my attention is the balance of light and dark.
So for a few weeks i do underpainting and detailing it. so i'm not going
to make it a fast painting.. it tooks a month or two to finish it. here's my video
"The founder of the Dutch still-life is the artist Bosshart Ambrosius 1573-1621.
In his Dutch still lifes, the artist paid special attention to bright colors in all sorts of combinations. But still much is visible artificiality in the creation of Dutch still lifes, the foreshortened colors are monotonous, the details are not worked out enough. These were only the first steps in a realistic Dutch still life, and they were done with great difficulty.
Not much further away, his student Balthazar van der Ast, creating a Dutch still life repeating in many respects the teacher's mistakes.
Only a hundred years more than the others succeeded Dutch artist Jan van Heisum and his other contemporaries. By this time, to draw flowers and create beautiful Dutch still lifes could already be many, even the artist Rechel Ruysch is known."
I really looking forward to finish this painting, it would be such beautifull example
of an artwork i could manage to make myself.
