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Dec 21, 2011
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9780811701495

Mastering Silhouettes

by Burns, Charles
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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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    Pub dateDec 21, 2011
    ISBN-100811701492
    ISBN-139780811701495
    LanguageEnglish
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