This experience of painting Copper in oil paint was very rewarding and satisfying. It started as a rough sketch in oil paint and then built up layer by layer, learning to mix the colours and gain a likeness at each stage. Here was where I began to just put paint on, even with a blue ground  I used loose stokes and blocked in colours and shape. This was a differnt approach as I usually skeytch out an image first but this time I just painted straight onto the canvas board. I painted another colour here (light grey) before adding layers of burnt umber and ultramarine blue as a dark background. I kept adding more detail and altering the composition of ears, eye and fur structure.