Mastering Silhouettes: Expert Instruction in the Art of Silhouette Portraiture

Mastering Silhouettes: Expert Instruction in the Art of Silhouette Portraiture image
ISBN-10:

0811701492

ISBN-13:

9780811701495

Author(s): Burns, Charles
Edition: Illustrated
Released: Dec 21, 2011
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
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  • 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
  • How to mount and display silhouettes

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