DC, Dallas, Delaware, Detroit, Denver, Silhouette artist Cindi is in high DEMAND

DC, Virginia, Philly, New England, Dallas silhouette snip artist, Cindi Harwood Rose, gives SHADE 

DC Distinguished, the palatial presented purposely. . . 

Once called Shades, the ever-popular silhouette rendering of a form or contour, can be done

in 50 shades of face-ons. However, when done properly, as seen at a recent DC wedding by

Cindi Harwood Rose, it goes deep into your outside and inside, in her intricate art cut-outs.

The Queen of silhouettes in the award winning, documentary, "Silhouette Secrets",

 Cutting a silhouette from a person, in a few minutes, freehand, without a sketch is exciting to watch.

Astute silhouettes are done with an insightful eye, skilled hand, and intuitive mind. 

 Beautiful silhouettes are also seen at the Lightner Museum in Augustine, Florida, by  silhouettest, Jeanie Owen. Silhouette artist Cindi Rose hand-cuts profiles in an itinerant way, to have strong public outreach, adding performance to her artworks.

 Cindi Rose silhouette philosophy is based on the principles of gift exchange discussed in Lewis Hyde's seminal work, the Gift.  Some artists will do silhouette profiles from pictures and by mail-order including Tim Arnold and Kathryn Flocken, who have mastered the art intricately. The all black silhouette, often seen in England and France is quicker to cut and mount at parties, it is less delicate. Often, it creates a very bold statement and a buzz of fun. European artists like to move around at parties, and not sit from one table, cutting faces.

Cindi's sister, Holly Harwood also hand-cut silhouettes at Disney World, and other charming events. She battled stage 4 cancer, and in her honor Cindi formed a non-profit The Holly Rose Ribbon Foundation for children and adult cancers and their families. 

 Artist, Clay Rice, has heart warming cut-paper books, with lyrics and music he performs  nationwide. A silhouette artist at a private store can help retail stay alive, especially if they have the store ring up sales, and they offer a percent of earnings back to the store. Most silhouette artists offer retail operations and schools 15 to 25 percent of sales. Cindi says she tries to help private business stay alive by offering her live performance silhouette portraits, for them to profit from. She works a room in the European style, and also will dress in period attire, for Hamilton-style events. 

At weddings, Cindi's silhouettes take the cake.  

 Cindi often silhouettes at corporate and fashion events as donations to hospital arts for cancer children. Google,  Dell, and Microsoft have had Cindi scissors cut portraits live at conferences.

To cut a real likeness from merely looking, is a talent. Cindi has snipped portraits in silhouette over 35 years!  The example below are some of Cindi Rose's own children, hand-cut by her 28 year's ago. www.http://silhouettesforsurvivors.org 

The "lost art" method of silhouette arts includes examining a person's contour, as a line drawing, and using the interior of scissors to carve a likeness, on-the-spot, without a prior sketch. In the photo below, in the Charlottesville, Va., home of Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, Cindi Harwood hand-cuts silhouettes at the world heritage museum, research institute, and presidential library, a private, non-profit organization. www.http://www.hollyroseribbon.org A popular house tour of the Monticello mansion now includes the cabin of John and Priscilla Hemings, who were enslaved, on MulberryRow. Gabriella Demczuk and Farah Stockman wrote a striking story about the new exhibit, featuring the "open secret" dedicated to Sally Hemings, who bore the founding father's children at the palatial plantation. 

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 Cindi Harwood Rose has silhouetted for the Sarah and James Polk Museum, outside Nashville,  to raise money for historical heritage as a fundraiser, several times.  When asked where Cindi is based, she explains that a silhouette artist is not always based.  She finds her bookings to be anywhere on the globe.  This past 12 months she has silhouetted in Chicago, NYC, Atlanta, San Diego, Austin, Dallas, Miami, Philadelphia, Boston, Scottsdale, Las Vegas, DC, Reston, San Antonio, Houston, Salt Lake City, New Orleans, Beaumont, Los Angeles, Sunnyvale, New Jersey, Aspen, Charleston, Denver, Boulder, Sedona, San Jose, Augusta,  Phoenix, Cleveland, Mountain View, Toronto, Bonita Springs, Memphis, Nashville, and many other cities. Her passion includes all art forms and is fondest of oil painting.  Here, Cindi has hand-cut a popular Asian style paper-cut, normally done with a blade.

 She supports all paper cutting arts through not-for-profit Guild of American Papercutters, or GAP, which incorporates hand-cut paper arts from cultures around the world.  They can be joined for a small donation. You can easily Google their comprehensive website. 

 Silhouettists or Shade artists should be able to travel to offer the art to many people, and for a multitude of occasions.  Thus, Ms. Cindi is seen carving lovely profiles in paper, by hand, world-wide.  

Her booking calendar, included a 29 city tour for Hermes Fragrance in the world's best department stores from the North Coast to the West Coast, to the East and South Coasts, to department stores, museums, private parties, corporate events, fundraisers, and charity events.  She laughs and says, "Have scissors, will travel."

The World's Most Famous Silhouette Artist

Five ways to ace an interview

1. Make sure you are qualified! Show up 10 minutes early, with three resumes printed on good linen paper on hand.

2. Let them talk first.  Listen and answer their questions.  It is your interview too, ask questions such as where do you see your company going in the next five years, do not ask about your vacations, and time-off!

3. Be clean, and dress smart.  You don't have to look wealthy, but please, have clean fingernails (unless your want to be a car mechanic), clean orderly clothes, and washed hair. Sit with your hands on your laps, and don't let them fly around or play with your hair as you speak.

4. Be confident.  Let them know you work hard and are easy to get along with.  People want team players.  Do not talk, politics or religion.  Unless, you are being hired by a political group or a religious group!

5. Thanks them for the interview.  If they like you, they normally have someone else meet you that day, if it is a large office and they tell you when they will be in touch with you again.

It's that easy!  Most important, be confident of your skills, talents, and what you can bring to them, that they need, how you can make their business better, and smarter.  silhouettesbycindi.com

Famous silhouette art, famed silhouette artists, famous silhouettes, artsy silhouette talk, cutting-up with you!

Cindi snips this flower-girl's portrait in 30 seconds freehand, without a camera or light,  or pre-sketch

It's music to our ears to see the signed famous Liberace Cindi Silhouette from DisneyWorld

Liberace silhouette by DisneyWorld artist, Cindi Harwood  and to note the old-fashioned  Beatrix Sherman style  contemporary silhouette

Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the most famous silhouette artist of them all? Kara Walker,Auguste Edouart, Lotte Reiniger, Cindi Harwood, Olly Moss!  This question of who is the most famous silhouette artist living, having lived, easily is Augustin Edouart. He was born in Dunkerque, and left France in 1814, to London, where he began making profiles and front-view portraits with real hair. In 1825 Augustin began cutting full length profiles in silhouette, cutting out black paper with scissors. In those days, scissors were not as developed as they are now, so the skill of the silhouette artist is not by the tools, it is by his/her talent. The paper was made black normally with "soot"and it was easier to cut a profile if one side of the paper was white. In 1829 he arrived in Edinburgh for several years and produced 5,000 silhouettes keeping an extra copy of each, and making notes about the subject he hand-cut on paper. You can see his collection in the National Portrait Gallery, and read more about him on He later moved to the USA, and sadly, lost most of his work in a ship wreck. His silhouettes of several people can fetch $30,000. Modern-day silhouette artist expert, Cindi,is the only silhouette artist who has the vintage French silhouette paper in her possession for higher commissions. She uses her art to donate to charities. silhouettesbycindi.com

Snow White, by Olly Moss, Mirror Mirror on the wall-- you are the fairest of them all!

Another famous silhouette artist is Olly Moss, does Comic Con silhouettes and is the author of a book. His work sells out in minutes with a long line waiting to buy his cool works. Sadly, other silhouette artists, copy his work claiming it is their "Olly" version, only if asked. Olly,ollymoss.com has modernized silhouette artwork to the movie and comic-con fans, he uses sketches, careful thoughts, and the exacto knife.   Kara Walker's work are also similar in a more modern dialogue than Charles Dickens cut-out artworks.https://dickens.ucsc.edu.resources She has been recognized one of the world's most famous silhouette artists, winning millions of dollars for her raw intersection of gender, sexuality and race, with iconic silhouetted features. She changed the art, however, by not using traditional silhouette paper and creating a theatrical arena in art museums making one realize the "push and pull" of life. Everyone who loves animation, knows Lotte Reiniger used silhouettes to create animation, and Walt Disney was inspired by her for his first cartoons. Rob Ryan is a British visual artist who uses the Papercutting (see Guild of American Papercutters sites) with the exacto blades to do incredible scenes similar to the Polish, German, Swiss arts. While his work is done normally from patterns he drew and cut out, in the folk-art way, it has been featured in Vogue, Elle, and Stylist. You can easily donate to The Guild of Papercutters and read about many paper cutting artists who work in that fashion. Silhouettes Cindi Rae Harwood Rose is the most famous living portrait silhouette artist, hollyroseribbon.org

Modern-style Auguste Edouart by Cindi Rose of an engaged couple for their wedding decor

having started drawing as a child painting portraits and cutting Polish and Swiss paper-cuts, it was a natural for Disneyland to see her work and hire her as a teen to be their leading silhouette and portrait artist in both of their USA parks. Beatrix Sherman silhouettes in full figure and bust, are very similar to the works of Auguste Edouart. Although to the eye, the body is not in proportion, it depicts what the clothing were in that era. She lived a flourishing life in Palm Beach, Florida, mingling with the wealthy and traveling for her silhouette bookings. She originated the name, "Silhouettist." She was born Beatrice, and later changed the spelling of her name. Other known silhouette artists are Isabella Beetham, and Marietta Leslie Cotton. silhouettesforsurvivors.org

Kara Walker, she Sees the unspeakable, read the book by Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw!

Cindi Harwood Rose, The World's Famous Silhouette Artist Expert

World Famous Silhouette Artist Cindi creates lasting keepsakes


Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something black and white? Famous myths often change with time, and what is black and white can be colorful too. Tradition has the history of the art of silhouette portraits hand-cut from black paper, and mounted on white. Famed, modern silhouette artist, Cindi Harwood Rose, often adds color to her paper profiles at events. The world famous psychiatrist and scientist, Lavatar, knew that a silhouette artist who is a fine artist, and observer of life, can see personality, in features and in body language. At outstanding parties and events, such as weddings and corporate gatherings, it is a modern and vintage approach to have the best silhouette artist cut every guest's portrait for party favor.