S is for Still Working on It!

Re. composition page: I got the free Internet a day early, so am transferring all the off-line edits! Then I still have to re-write the composite section and find all the missing links!

We've seen these before but I think, but I've added a couple? 'Composite' rather than 'composition' they are carved wood with brass sheet or wire detailing and a smoothing coat of gesso (a chalk or gypsum paint) or a thick plaster 'slip'; hand-painted, probably Indian or - certainly - somewhere in Asia.