One type of art I do like is the silhouette. I especially love them grouped together as it's a nice twist to the traditional family portrait. I especially love the ones in bright colors after I first saw in Jonathan Adler's store. I figured it was a good project to try to DIY.
I decided that the best place to hang this would be in our playroom/office. The room is painted a bright tiffany blue (which was a mistake by me- but more on that later).
First, I tackled the silhouettes. I was able to hunt down photographs of each of us taken of our profiles. I then copied and pasted it in Microsoft Word, cropped them and enlarged each to 7x9. (I lack fancy photo editing software so Microsoft Word is my go-to). Next step is to print them out and carefully cut out the silhouette. After that, I painted over each paper-photo with gold acrylic paint I already had. And your done- easy peasy.
Next I went to frame them using Ikea Ribba frames but I didn't like how the white backing blended with the matte and frame. So I got the idea to add a pop of color by covering the mat with fabric.
I bought a half a yard of fabric from Hobby Lobby and went to town to cover the mattes. I don't have photos of this process but it's pretty simple- I cut out a piece of fabric the same width and length of the matte and glued the edges down so it totally covered the matte. Then I cut a hole in the center of the fabric and carefully cut diagonally up to each corner of the matte. When you're done with this, you should be left with four triangles. I then cut the tip off of each triangle and glued the remaining part to the inside part of the matte.
And here's the finished project- what do you think?
Overall I'm pretty pleased with how they turned out, especially for an afternoon of work. What do you all think? Have you ever tried diying silhouettes?
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