Elk mountains oil painting

I keep working on my mountains; they are getting better. This painting is a lone elk walking in a winter landscape. I went on a trip to Colorado with my father one year. The peaks out there are much more grand than the adirondacks where I live. The elk was done in black and white acrylic, masked, and finished later with a transparent oil glaze to give it some color. I like the marbled sky and sense of a vast expanse.

Below is a close up of the elk. It's only 3 inches long. I thought I had steady hands until trying to due this minute detail work. I'll never be a surgeon, that's for sure.