Narrowing Down The Choices

As well as deciding which symbols to include in my Vanitas, I also have to choose which Vanitas I will use.
After much consideration, I have narrowed down my choices to the following two:

I particularly like this Vanita. I like how it contains many different objects that are all packed together onto the shelves. I think that it would be interesting to place my own items in this painting, and I also feel there are a lot of opportunities to do so. On the other hand, this piece, I think, would be very complicated to paint on the canvas. I think that I would struggle getting the scale and shape of the objects within the image.

This Vanita I also like. I think that it would be quite easy to insert my objects and symbols into the Vanita as objects on the desk around the pocket watch. I also think that this Vanita would be challenging to paint, but not overly difficult and time consuming to complete. I also think that the scale would be easier to keep.