portrait artist
Paints people's likenesses
A portrait artist creates representations of specific people, typically emphasizing the face and expression.
The term covers painters, photographers, sketch artists, and sculptors who specialize in capturing individual likenesses: She hired a portrait artist to paint her grandmother from old photographs.
Police sketch artists who render suspects from witness descriptions are also portrait artists.
- sitterTemporary child caretaker
- oil paintingArt made with linseed-bound pigments
- brush strokesMarks from painting tool
- facial featuresElements composing a face
- charcoal drawingArt using burned wood sticks
commission · watercolor · pencil sketching · identity · personality · likeness · patron · Old Masters · painter · self-portraiture · realism · Impressionism · Modernism · Cubism · chiaroscuro · mood · easel · digital illustration
- artistsPablo Picasso, painter, illustrators, Leonardo da Vinci, cartoonists
- art peoplepainter, sculptor, illustrator, ceramicist, printmaker
- creativesartists, painter, painters, illustrators, designer
- Street Performersbusker, street performer, street singer, street dancer, juggler
- portrait paintinglikeness, facial expression, sitter, skin tones, profile
- street peoplestreet vendor, street performer, street musician, busker, street cleaner
portrait artistabstract artist
Creator of non-figurative work
abstract expressionist · abstract painter · Jackson Pollock · Mark Rothko · conceptual artist