Mastering Silhouettes: Expert Instruction in the Art of Silhouette Portraiture

by Charles Burns

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811701492
• ISBN13: 9780811701495
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.2"