Dutch Still Life

A cover-up built as a seventeenth century flower painting. The client asked for peonies and peacock feathers and left the rest open. Willow takes the classic Dutch trick of lighting a bouquet against near black and uses it for a practical reason here: the dark ground is what absorbs the old tattoo, and it makes every pink and cream in the flowers sit forward off the arm. The peacock eyes are placed high on the left where they catch first, then the pansies and morning glories step down through blue toward the urn. The carved gold frame is drawn as though it has real depth, with the lower edge curling away from the arm. By Willow Webber.

By Willow Webber at Eden Body Art Studios.

Styles: Painterly, Realism.