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 :)

Pablo Picasso sketch

A quick sketch of a Picasso piece I did in 2011 with graphite

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 :)

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).