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 :)

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!