Using a mixture of house paint, glue, gesso, crinkled tissue paper, granite, and acrylic paints, he builds areas of low relief, which he then paints over.

His lack of mastery of perspective and recession forced him into low relief and stark frontality.

Anna was still a Carmelite foundation, and over the next decade-and-a-half was outfitted with a sculpted altarpiece, four huge marble wall epitaphs carved in low relief, elaborate choir stalls with wooden busts of prophets and sibyls, a pipe organ with splendid painted shutters, a brass grill by the Vischer family of Nuremberg which in the end was never installed, and finally a marble balustrade to replace the rejected grill.