Mastering Silhouettes

- 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