Silhouettes




Silhouettes are a traditional art form, often created by the free-hand cutting of a dark material with scissors or a razor blade.  The effect of a hand-cut silhouette can be easily replicated with the use of the pen tool in Photoshop. 


http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/beautiful-handcut-paper


Your next challenge will be to create a composition made entirely of silhouettes.  Choose any kind of subject or scene that you would like, but think about what your composition is communicating and how you can tell a story with just the silhouettes you create. Before you commit to a certain course of action, check out the links below:

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/beautiful-handcut-paper

http://cargocollective.com/isabeltalsma/Alice-in-Wonderland

http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/KaraWalker

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/09/paper-cut-action-silhouettes-by-david-a-reeves/

http://www.beatricecoron.com/links.html

Below are some examples of student solutions to this challenge:

Colin Lentz



Jack Brown



John Spara



Marianaa Tlahuitzo



Stanley Moore



Stanley Moore

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