Secrets of the guild

This pic is already couple of months old. I'm fascinated by the still life paintings of the baroque, but I know for sure that I don't have the skills for doing that my self. None the less I wanted to aim for that kind of mood so I had to select a technique more suitable for me. So obviously this is a photo based digital painting.

Here is the original photo. No, it is not a stock photo. I took that photo with my recently deceased Canon Ixus 400 and started to paint on that.