I took the true silhouette approach to some of my life sized cut outs. By this I mean I just used my eye and a scalpel. There was no tracing, no drawing and no machines for these. This was my first time trying this out so as a result, the proportions may be slightly off. As well as this, I attempted the full skateboarding figure rather than just the head and shoulders. Here are a couple.
I soon became interested in the spaces between the figures. So I started hanging them up beside each other.
I began to really like this idea of putting them together, so I decided to take all the life sized silhouettes that I had done up to date and hang them up together on the same wall.
This proved to be difficult as there was much competition for wall space within the college and so the amount of space that I needed was scarce.
So I came up with an alternative solution. I brought them home and hung them up on the wall of my garage. Here they are.
I rearranged the order of the figures 5 times to see how they would look. However since I had to do this outside I encountered a few problems.
Since these are life sized, they would not fit into any folders and I didn't want to fold them as they would get damaged. So I had to carry them home in the wind and rain. Not fun!!
Since they are only paper cut outs, many of them didn't stand a chance against the weather so many of them got torn and damaged.
With each silhouette shown here, I remade at least 4 times if not more as they were constantly getting damaged. Even here, you can make out the crumpled up marks left over from the weather and from being kept in my studio. Sadly this was out of my control. Still, I'm happy it worked out!
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