Cutting Up with "W."

 What a hoot it was to cut Dubya's Silhouette in Atlanta last Friday.
He certainly drew quite the crowd around us, and had everyone in stitches!

Silhouette Artist Kathryn at Your Wedding Reception

Silhouette of Bride and Groom by Silhouette Artist Kathryn Flocken.

Silhouettes at Weddings make for a unique entertainment experience, as well as memorable wedding favors for the Guest to keep forever.

Please watch Silhouette Artist Kathryn Flocken's Wedding Video that shows samples of  her work, basic set-up needs, what the Guest Book looks like, what the frames look like, and what the mounting card looks like that each Guest will receive their Silhouette mounted on.
(Be sure to click on the lower right corner of the video to enlarge to Full Screen).

Each Silhouette is hand cut with surgical scissors only! No drawing, tracing or Photoshop!

Each Silhouette takes only about 2 minutes per person to cut!

Up to 100 Silhouettes can be hand cut at your reception in a 4 hour time period.

 Each Silhouette comes mounted on this attractive card.

Elegant Black Oval Frames compliment the Silhouette Wedding Favor

 and are an optional extra if you like!.

  

Either a small or large Guest Book is now included FREE as part of your Wedding Package.

The small Guest Book is for a Wedding party of 100 or less and just Kathryn
as your Silhouette Artist.

The large Guest Book is for a Wedding  with 100+ Guests, Kathryn and one other Silhouette Artist.

Please inquire for a second Artist, Kathryn has team members on hand ready to serve you!

Elegant Black Oval Frames are also available as an option.
 Please send an inquiry about the discounted rate for Weddings!

Look at this yummy Custom Silhouette Wedding Cake!
 This Bride and Groom not only hired Kathryn to cut their Silhouettes at their Wedding, they also themed everything around the Silhouettes made of them in advance.

The Bride and Groom had their Pastry Chef turn my paper Silhouettes into edible chocolate pieces of art.

What a SWEET idea for a cake topper!

 Now Kathryn offers Custom Cake Topper Silhouette Sets Made for Your Wedding!

The Silhouettes are freehand cut from your photos first,

 then the artwork is computerized and laser cut from food safe acrylic.

Full body custom laser cut acrylic Wedding Cake Topper Silhouettes also available!

Kathryn normally cuts Silhouettes for 4 hours, beginning at cocktail hour.

Kathryn can move easily from cocktail hour into the reception area.

Set up needs are simple~ just a small draped table and two chairs of the same height.
A well lit room or a lamp is fine to "shed a little light on the subject."

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For more information and to send inquiries, please visit:

www.paperportraits.com 

Click on the email, and please include your wedding date, time, location and number of Guests in the inquiry.  

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Kathryn has been featured on national television and magazines cutting Silhouettes.

Silhouette Fundraisers

What a perfect way to raise money for your school or charity with this upscale and customized product!

Kathryn can come to you in person, or create Silhouettes easily through photos that you take and send
on a disc!

Silhouettes AND Frames will be sold at a discounted bulk rate to you.

To see samples of Kathryn's Silhouette work, please visit:

Paperportraits.com

Send an email inquiry for more details!

Silhouettes at Boutiques and Stores

Host Silhouette Artist Kathryn at your Boutique, Toy Store, Museum or Book Store for Silhouette Day!

Silhouettes make terrific gifts for Mother's Day, Father's Day, Easter and Christmas.
Silhouettes are guaranteed to draw business to your store,
and will be THE EVENT to 

Keep your valued Customers coming back for years to come!

Host Kathryn and earn up to 25% of the total made for the day! 

Kathryn will travel to you 

Free of Charge

 and provide all of the materials to guarantee a 

successful event!

 Samples and Demo Video on
PaperPortraits.com
Slots fill up quickly...

Book your date today!

History of Silhouettes

"Clarissa draws her scissors from the case,
To draw the lines of poor Dan Jackson's face.
One sloping line cut forehead, nose and chin,

A nick produced a mouth and made him grin."

~Jonathan Swift

Click on the following links to learn about the History of Hand-Cut Silhouettes.

History of Silhouettes

Silhouettes on Wikipedia

Jane Austen's World

A Timeline History of Silhouettes

Photos and Notes from an Avid Silhouette Collector 


 
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Silhouette Tracing Machines of the 1800's.

 

(Click on images to enlarge and see detail)

The Physiognotrace

Charles Wilson Peale used the Physiognotrace for making "hollow cut" silhouettes in the 1800's. A hollow cut is what is left over after the inner profile is cut out and removed. Black cloth or paper was used behind the hollow cut to show the profile originally cut from white paper.

The Physiognotrace was fastened to the wall, and the sitter placed his head against a hollow plaque for steadiness. The Artist would then carefully trace around the entire head with a brass gnomon (also known as a "Storks Beak"), while the far end of the arm would draw the outline of the head on paper in a smaller size, 

up-side-down. That tracing would then be cut out.

 

 

The Limomachia

John Casper Lavatar designed a special chair that kept the sitter in a rigid position.

Lavatar theorised that a person's character and mental attitude could be discerned by observing the various facial features.

  

The Camera Obscura

The camera obscura has a reducing lens, and when tracing paper is placed over a glass where the reduced image is cast, one has a perfect shadow of the subjects' head and chest. This shadow is then traced and becomes the pattern to cut from.

Watch the Camera Obscura in action in these two fascinating video clips:

Camera Obscura~ Girl with a Pearl Earring

From "Genius of Photography"~ AMAZING to watch!

 

Some old time imagery of Silhouette Artists~ some who truly draw with scissors, and some who trace with lights and machines.
In today's world, there are perhaps less than 100 working "true" Silhouette Artists!

 
These images used for this story are for entertainment, historical and educational purposes only. I claim no ownership or authorship to them. (And I'm not selling them either, only my stuff.)

Silhouettes at Jason Angelini's Christmas Party 2009

Photographer Jason Angelini treated his regular clients to a fun Holiday Party in Tampa. There was plenty of great food, photos with Santa, Christmas Carol singers...and Silhouettes! These are just a few of the snapshots taken from that event.

Jason does super work, and will make your wedding or special event one to remember with his lovely photography. To see more photos from this party, just click on the link below, and have a look at Jason's Blog. You can see samples of his other work, too!
http://www.jasonangeliniphotography.com/