Self portrait chalk pastel

I did this quickly during my GCSE art exam with different colour chalk pastels (mainly blues and greens) as I'd finished my main piece and decided to add more to my folder! I used different colours because I'd started  replacing colours in the project depending on the shadows and highlights of the face.
(I don't think this looks like me!)

Peter Howson's in chalk pastel

Two of my own replicas of Peter Howson's work done with chalk pastels. I love Peter Howson's exaggerated way of working on portraits and the top piece especially is one of my favourites, I could look at it forever! The colours and the cartoon like features are great and I'd love to do a portrait of my own in that style.

Selina in chalk pastel

This was for a GCSE project where I chose to do portraits. Not much to say about this one, it's my cousin's baby :)

Oil & chalk pastels

These were part of my final exam in year 11, summer 2011.  Unfortunately I don't have an image of the final piece because it's on display at my secondary school which I don't go to any more and never have chance to go and get it - but I need to do that soon!
I did a lot of experiments with changing colours and from a black & white photo managed to select different areas of colour and chose pinks, purple and green (fluorescent) for this one.
I tried it in oil pastels and chalk pastels and much preferred the chalks so that's what my final piece ended up like. Similar to the bottom one but a lot better!