Visiting Northern England Series: Final Painting #1

After completing 21 small studies of my "Visiting Northern England" Series, I am ready to move on and begin painting the larger versions of my favorites. Choosing this first one was simply on impulse; when I painted it as an 8x10" I could hardly wait to see it big. I chose a 24x30" canvas which feels like a good size.
Since I have already figured out the composition, colors of paint and how I want to approach this piece, I decided to paint wet-on-wet, completing one section at a time, starting with the ewe's face.