Following an entertaining family effort (my kids and Joseph with squirt bottles filled with distilled water) to give the big canvas a wash so that the creases drop out and the canvas gets a little tighter, Joseph worked on gessoing while I turned to the other side of the studio to continue to paint the leaves at the feet of the Angel of Death with Iron Oxide Red, completing the layer. Today I hope to finish them completely, glazing them and lightening them up a bit.
The canvas totally dominates the room, looks great! Even the Angel looks small next to it.
