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 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!

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!