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Thank you @zorank; I worked on it for a period of 6 months, and although I did not paint every single day, I devoted a few days of every week to it. Did you know that during the Renaissance, six months was considered a normal delay for a painting?

Back then I guess when painters run off some paint color, they had to wait few months to get the new ones from somewhere. That's why such a delay. Just kidding, of course!