We are doing a history project and have to only use materials that would have been used by pioneers. The only things we can find talk about using a lamp and construction paper and the like.
2007-04-03 12:11:34 · 2 answers · asked by ozzy 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Drawing & Illustration
We are not allowed to use any modern materials. Does anyone know what kind of material that the pioneers used to put the silhouettes on? Is it a cut out piece of fabric or did they use some early form of pencil to trace the outline and color it in?
2007-04-03 14:22:28 · update #1
I've seen people do that and they do it freehand using a scissors and by eyeballing the person. The modern way of doing it is take a digital picture and then in Photoshop blacken everything making the person a silhouette.
The silhouette was made out of something stiff like black paper. I just typed silhouette and portrait into the Yahoo web search and I found all kinds of web sites with the information you want. Try it. You'll like it.
2007-04-03 12:36:37 · answer #1 · answered by Zack 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use the lamp to cast a person's shadow (in profile) on the paper and cut it out.
2007-04-03 19:18:22 · answer #2 · answered by Lee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋