Kitten study, oil painting

I worked on this kitten study a little more just to finish it off. I haven’t painted someone else’s work in a while, but I feel its necessary from time to time to not only study the methods of accomplished oil painters, but to practice mimicking there techniques on canvas. I feel it helps me to get inside there thought process of applying the paint to canvas. Perhaps its similar a student guitar player practicing Smoke on the Water. It's not always as hard as it looks you just have to practice practice practice.