Ready-to-Use Old-Fashioned Silhouettes


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446 eye-catching royalty-free silhouettes: male and female profiles, elegant couples, nymphs, children, animals, transportation, alphabet, more.




Silhouette Designs for Artists and Craftspeople


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Choose from 153 decorative silhouette motifs: lovely ladies with elaborate headdresses, graceful wood sprites, ships in full sail, floral vignettes, a Chinese dragon, and much more. Suitable for professional and amateur uses, these designs come in a variety of sizes and will answer virtually any need for distinctive, royalty-free art.




Easy-to-Cut Silhouette Designs


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Twnety-nine charming, traditional silhouette designs that are so easy to use even children can join the fun! Designs include youngsters playing, leprechauns and fairies, butterflies, birds, florals, and many more. Perfect for framing, decoupage, and other craft projects. Instructions included.




Mastering Silhouettes


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"Silhouettes are an increasingly popular form of capturing portraits with a history that goes back hundreds of years. In this unique how-to book, silhouette artist Charles Burns teaches the basic techniques needed for making silhouettes: learning the proportions of a profile, tracing a shadow, reducing an image, drawing and cutting freely, and his own 'natural waves' technique. You'll learn to create scissor-cut portraits, painted silhouettes, hollow-cut silhouettes, silhouettes painted on glass, caricatures, and more, as well as how to use color, appliqué, and three-dimensional effects in creative and innovative ways and how to mount and display your creations."--Page 4 of cover.




The Foggy, Foggy Forest


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Who's lurking in the foggy forest? This title lets children to look through the trees and guess the shapes to find out whether it's a fairy queen on a trampoline, three brown bears on picnic chairs, or an ogre doing yoga.




Ready-to-Use Contemporary Silhouettes


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80 different, royalty-free motifs each in 3 sizes depict people at work, at play, traveling and engaged in other contemporary activities. Includes holiday scenes. "




Ready-to-Use Signboard Mortised Cuts


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Over 250 royalty-free illustrations — 127 different designs, each in 2 sizes — incorporating blank spaces for advertising copy or other messages. Eye-catching designs include a cup, coffee pot, fish, traffic sign, house, fence, window frame, mirror, shoe, tooth, eyeglasses, many more. Ideal for advertisements, book and magazine illustrations, posters, newsletters, stationery. 254 black-and-white illustrations.




Reading and Writing Silhouettes


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Add appeal to graphics with these silhouettes: youngsters posing as bookends, girl reading at beach, couple examining menus, many more.




Ready-to-Use Old-Fashioned Christmas Illustrations


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Recall the joys of Christmas past with this rich collection of 395 ready-to-use, royalty-free illustrations. Selected by a graphic artist and reproduced directly from rare 19th-century sources, these delightful old-fashioned black-and-white cuts include scenes of carolers, wintry landscapes, festive family gatherings around the Christmas tree, angels, Santas, wreaths, plum puddings, candles, reindeer, delicately rendered frames of holly leaves (in varied sizes), ready-to-print announcements proclaiming "Merry Christmas," "Happy Holidays," "Season's Greetings," "Happy New Year," and much more. Cuts are ideal for enhancing posters, advertisements, catalog copy, greeting cards, and other message bearers.




Business Silhouettes


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96 eye-catching silhouettes — each in two sizes — depict male and female white-collar workers in board meetings; checking flow sheets; using computers, telephones, fax and photocopy machines; making presentations; seated at desks and engaged in many other business-related activities. 192 black-and-white illustrations.