Instructions and exercises for the basic techniques needed for making silhouettes: learning the proportions of a profile, tracing a shadow, reducing an image, drawing and cutting freely, and the author's own "natural waves" technique How to create scissor-cut portraits, painted silhouettes, hollow-cut silhouettes, silhouettes painted on glass, caricatures, and more Includes information on the history of the craft and examples from artists from the eighteenth century to today. Creative and innovative suggestions for using color, appliquè, and three-dimensional effects.
- ISBN13 9780811701495
- Publish Date 21 December 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Stackpole Books
- Format Paperback
- Language English