I recently finished a series of oil paintings on 5"x 5" 3/4inch thick round pieces of wood. I managed to photograph some different steps along the way for this one.
I started with a pencil drawing on the wood based on a photo I took and then did a rough underpainting in burnt sienna and a little ivory black to figure out the values.
After it dried I did layers of thinned down oil glazes over each other until it reached my desired look.
Prior to working on this series I had only used oils alla prima style with wet on wet blending but I really enjoyed trying out glazes and layering.