Baldassare Castiglione by Jiri Keller

More superbness!

You are so prolific! I don’t know how you do it! How many hours does it take you to produce a painting like this?

I try to do it the way they went about it- first coat a detailed depiction in monochrome, and it takes time to do it in a proper way. I think on and off about 30-40 hrs.

So it is about a week’s work. I don’t feel so bad now. I really like this one the facial features are so sensitively painted, with an old fashioned look.