Sketching in Oil

There she is, our Bonnie Belle who places first dibs on my chair. Considering the health problems she has endured the past year, I guess I have become more of a pushover. Instead of moving her, I get another chair and go to work on an oil sketch.

I'm still out of practice and a little rusty. This one went hard on me. Color was my main concern and much of it was looking good until I overworked it and started seeing mud in places. It is on one half of a 11x14 canvasboard and I used #2 and #4 filberts. It's small and it didn't photograph well. We are overcast and headed for some winter weather!