Mum oil painting

First of all, my mum doesn't look this old and scary in real life! I made it look this way as Lucian Freud was my influence, hence the depressed face!
 This was my first ever oil painting and is probably my best portrait I've done so far so I'm definitely going to use oil paints more often, whenever I can buy canvasses since you can't use them on paper!
 I hope to produce a lot more work like this soon which I'll use in portfolios when applying to university art courses as I really enjoy doing them and I think they show my ability well :)

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.

Peter Howson oil pastel

I did a copy of Peter Howson's work (not sure the name) using oil pastels. This was also for GCSE - I'll post more recent work once most of my old stuff is up!

Robert Cottingham "KRESGE'S"

A watercolour copy of Robert Cottingham's "Kresge's" - for a City/building project at GCSE in year 10 2010. Not my best but it's alright!

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 :)

Acrylic Grandma

This is one of the first acrylic paintings I did (in 2010/early 2011) and is of my grandma. As you can see I wasn't very skilled and am still learning but I don't think its too bad for a first attempt - as it was also my first bigger portrait (A2 sized).

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!