- Size：31.5 × 31.5 cm
- Material：Oil painting, Panel, Canvas
- Year：2024
- Price：台幣 NT$446,000
- Depiction：
Flowers are a part of life.
They appear in festive celebrations, on everyday dining tables, in rituals, and, of course, in still-life paintings. Many artists paint flowers, but the key difference lies in texture. Some end up looking like plastic flowers—too rigid, with limited color depth—while others capture the vitality of real blooms, where petals have elasticity and a luminous quality under light. Achieving this realism requires careful layering; when the visual characteristics are accurately portrayed, the flowers appear even more lifelike. To render the textures of petals, veins, and nectar, one must invest a great deal of time, using multiple layers of fine brushwork to build up the petal’s surface, creating a realistic effect before applying transparent color washes—an intricate process that demands patience.Many of the flowers I paint are ones I grow myself—wisteria, roses, camellias, and various other species. When they bloom, I cut them and arrange them with my sample vases and plates. By "samples," I mean plain white ceramic vases or dishes, which I use to mimic the forms and proportions of Song dynasty porcelain, studying how shadows fall upon them.
I document these compositions with my camera, but this is not just casual photography. I carefully consider natural light and spotlight effects, composing each shot while accounting for the viewer's perspective. Often, an entire day is spent just capturing these references. However, the advantage is that I accumulate a vast collection of photographic works—including still lifes, portraits, and more.
Excerpt from ArtQA | Chou Chuan-Chih | Part II
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