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, applique, and three-dimensional effects.
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Verlagsort
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
USA
Produkt-Hinweis
Broschur/Paperback
Fadenheftung
Illustrationen
black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, frontispiece
Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 192 mm
Dicke: 15 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-8117-0149-5 (9780811701495)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Charles Burns is one of Britain's most prominent silhouette artists. His subjects include Queen Elizabeth (at her 80th birthday party), her consort the Duke of Edinburgh, and Bill Clinton. He lives in London.
