jt1stcav Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 If anyone happens to be in central Florida next weekend and wants a unique gift for themselves for the holidays: http://www.freewebs.com/jt1stcav/myeventspage.htm It's obviously not audio related, but if any of you in Florida want a centuries-old art styled in the likeness of your profile (in shadow form), or have family members you'd like to have a silhouette of...please stop by and have one created. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 How do you create your silhouettes? The reason I asked is that I had my childrens done when they were little. There was a lady (artist) that would come to the local malls once a year. She would have the children sit and create har silhouette while she was looking at them. She used a black piece of paper and a pair of sissors ONLY. Nothing was drawn ahead of time. She just sat there and cut while she glanced at the children. Her sissors never left the paper as the outline was done with one cut. The detail was incredible, all the way down to eyelashes and loose hair. Yours look similar to what we have at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt1stcav Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 That's exactly how I do it! After my service in the Army, I got a job in '86 with a small specialty art firm commissioned to do portraits and silhouettes out at Disney World. It was on-the-job training, concentrating on just the outline of a person's profile, all the while learning how to control the scissors and learning different cutting techniques. We all had art backgrounds already, so it was basically learning how to draw all over again, but with scissors. Bad part was you can't correct mistakes...once the cut's made, that's about it (you can only trim so much...too much and it's trashed). Took about 6 weeks to learn and about a year to master. I was laid off in 2003 due to lack of business, and haven't done it much since...until recently. I love the art form and I have no problems making them; just trying to drum up business now which is hard to do when the economy is down the toilet and people don't have the spare cash for such things these days anymore. I'm just hoping that its uniqueness and old world charm will attract a crowd at the art gig I have going on this weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael hurd Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Cool, as long as the silhouette isn't drawn in chalk on the sidewalk...[:S] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt1stcav Posted December 13, 2008 Author Share Posted December 13, 2008 No chalk...promise. Getting ready for the gig...wish me luck.[Y] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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