I have been trying to get back into oil painting, as I posted in the last few posts. No better way than to  paint the cat. This first photo is the early stages of a small oil on gesso board, one of the ones I prepared last week.

A closer view 

Finally, the finished painting of Ron, an oil study. 7x5 ins. No sign of a palette knife here, even though I was tempted a few times. I kept it fairly mute, leaving the white highlight to enhance the study.