Proportion & Features
Techniques & Tools
Famous Faces
Identify glossary words
100

This is the standard width used to measure the distance between a person's two eyes.

What is one eye width?

100

This pencil is the darkest when rendering.

What is 6B?

100

Known for her colorful self-portraits, this Mexican artist often included animals and nature to represent her identity.

Who is Frida Kahlo.

100

A portrait that resembles a cartoon

What is a caricature

200

The edges of the mouth usually align vertically with the centers of these facial parts.

What are the pupils?

200

A light, translucent layer of paint often used in the background of a portrait to set a mood.

What is a wash?

200

Which arists uses geometric shapes to create a portrait.

Who is Picasso

200

A person’s conception and expression of individuality or group affiliation, self-concept and self-representation.

What is identity

300

In a standard front-facing portrait, the top of the ears generally aligns with this feature.

What are the eyebrows?

300

This term refers to the range of light and dark in a portrait, which helps make a face look 3D.

What is tone?

300

This Pop Art pioneer is famous for his vibrant, multi-coloured screen-print portraits of celebrities like Elvis Presley

Who is Andy Warhol

300

The depiction or portrayal of subjects, ideas and themes in artworks, using various techniques and materials to convey meaning and context to audiences.

What is representation

400

This term describes a portrait where the subject is looking  to the side.

What is a profile?

400

When an artist creates a portrait of themselves, it is called by this specific name.

What is a self portrait?

400

This Australian artist won the Archibald Prize in 2011 for his portrait of Margaret Olley. He is also an Old Boy of Oakhill College.

Who is Ben Quilty.

400

A person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.

Who is a patron