CEO of HollyRoseRibbonFoundation.org improves cancer children's lives with arts in medicine program at Texas Children's Hospital

Since 16, artist and Silhouette artist Cindi Harwood (now Rose) has gone to hospitals to paint murals on the walls, and to teach free art lessons to the children.  The group art lessons not only decorate the room, give the family an heirloom gift, they make the children forget their pain and have hope.  Other projects done by the program includes making holiday cards, water coloring, making Easter baskets with paper plates, and origami.  As CEO if the HollyRoseRibbonFoundation.org she tried to bring wellness to children and the families suffering with critical illness and cancer, to provide wellness, support, outreach, and hope.

Museum of Fine Arts Silhouettes Cindi Rose

Museum of Fine Arts Silhouettes Cindi Rose

Imagine an international venue, a world- renown art museum, a seated dinner catered by chef Jackson Hicks, prize winning opera singers, the global oil and gas energy convention, and VIP ambassadors, dignitaries, each receiving a hand-cut heirloom Silhouette by master Cindi Harwood Rose. This was the winning formula for a recent gathering. Only 30 exclusive guests were invited to tour the Museum of Fine Arts with docents, enjoy music from Houston Grand Opera, and have a custom profile portrait carved on the spot and signed, by Cindi Harwood Rose, renown silhouette artist. The guests came from Nigeria and prayers were said before dinner, to help the children of Nigeria.

 

 

America's top silhouette artists silhouette sisters "Snip-Off" with Europe's top silhouettest, join Indiegogo campaign!

America's top silhouette artists silhouette sisters "Snip-Off" with Europe's top silhouettest, join Indiegogo campaign!

Premier silhouette King and Queens-- to royal competition in America's fastest growing city-- Houston, Texas-- medical and energy capital of the globe-- to conquer

On important silhouette documentary "Silhouette Secrets" produced for British Film Festivals, touted by BBC.  Please watch and contribute to this historical, informative Documentary.

To see and contribute to the Silhouette Secrets campaign video on Indiegogo, click  HERE

Silhouette Cindi Wonderland Pop Artist Gallery Show

Silhouette Cindi Wonderland Pop Artist Gallery Show

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                We are all madly in love with Cindi Harwood Rose's simple but brilliant depictions of Alice In Wonderland with her new twist on the old Victorian theme of silhouette profiles.

She has a series of her favorite hand-cuttings playfully portrayed of popular story characters such as Peter Pan and the Lost Children, Medusa, Spider Man, Hansel and Gretel, and more.  Cartoons actually

began with silhouette cut-outs by Lotte Reininger, who Walt Disney later embellished her original works into a theme park, we all know of as Disneyland in Las Angeles, Disneyworld in Orlando, Disneyland in Tokyo and Europe.  To understand the complexity of this art and how it is relevant to cinema, pop fiction, and art nerds, view Lotte Reininger 's work on YouTube.  Cindi Harwood began

drawing portraits when she was 5, and by 8 she got her first commission for $1.  Today, she carves her work for various companies for logos, business conventions and conferences, techies,

and special events.  "I actually don't mind even cutting silhouettes at weddings of the guests" Cindi said.  She sees it as a gift, and does not have to be in a museum or art gallery, although

her large works have graced many museums and galleries.  Keep your eye out for her upcoming art shows, on contact her through silhouettesbycindi.com 

Vow Wow, silhouette artist at the wedding!

For the real vow WOW, have a real silhouette artist hand-cut profiles of your guests!  It will not only entertain them, it makes a super keepsake.  To really be kind, you can order picture frames for extra gifts for the wedding party, or all the guests. National wedding magazines go for the home-made touches, and with this unique idea you can have scrapbook pages for the guests to sign with their silhouettes on them for you to keep.  That way, you get a gift, they get a gift.  We know the biggest gift at a wedding should be your love for your partner and the family and friends gathered to share in your special day of love, honor, and forever after! Check out Silhouettesbycindi.com for more ideas.

Wedding decoration ideas!

OMG, is this the most incredible way of displaying a gifted silhouette artist's works-- a rock wall of silhouettes by artist Cindi Rose!

I always love to see them cozy on chair backs, but with fresh flowers and pearls and newlyweds kissing after the "Forever Vows".  This reminds me of the ABC show, The Bachelor", and yes,

silhouette artist Cindi Rose is the mother of ABC's famous Bachelor and Bachelor Pad star, Erica Rose!  White roses, pearls, silhouettes-- great wedding décor silhouettes and the artist Cindi at the wedding

profiling the guests!  I do!  I will forever adore this wedding theme.  For more information check out silhouettesbycindi.com and her wedding video supreme on YouTube.

Wedding I do--silhouette artist style!

  Glamour, antique, memories, and old-fashioned glamour adds to these exquisite wedding shoot of silhouette artist

Cindi Rose's delicate original hand-cut works.  Heirloom treasures were selected with real linens while the love couple sailed with Cindi's

Silhouettes and thank-you notes for their going away wishes.  Even the flower girl was kept entertained with a silhouette

Artist at a wedding! A Waterford champagne bucket kept the hollow cuts for a bridal art project to do after the wedding

Vows, honeymoon, and new married life!

Silhouette Shades: Freehand Cut vs. Machine

Many people rejoice in the cutting of the charming European and American silhouettists and profilists who once called their work Shades.  Some cut by mechanical means such as William Bache who began in Worcestershire, England and then came to Philadelphia in 1782.  In many aspects the machine, was a form of "cheating" for the non-portrait artist, since even in the 1700's, it was rare to find a real silhouette artist, who merely gazed upon a subject and hand-cut the profile-- without having to use a light, machine, or shadow.  In these detailed photos, veteran silhouette artist, Cindi Rose cuts with antiques around her for a wedding shoot. Today, as yesterday, this difficult art to master, is often copycatted by artificial means-- the Photoshop, a wall tracing, a camera cut-put. These methods reduce the subject to a minimal, blocking their light, making them less than who they are.  The accurate master of the lost art, will make unique detail cut-outs, often even, draw more details on the special silhouette paper and sign and not stamp their works. 

Children's silhouettes by Cindi makes cute decorations for national child and foster care conference.  Cindi was on-hand to cut silhouettes of case workers, foster parents and children, as well as add hand-cut silhouettes on each dessert and centerpiece.

Great wedding entertainment idea-- Silhouette artist!

Children's silhouettes are popular at all occasions.  Here, Cindi Rose cuts a profile of a flower girl at a wedding.

 Father/son silhouette by artist Cindi Rose, makes great wedding favors!

Hand cut silhouettes by an expert silhouette artist makes great entertainment at a wedding, and a party favor.  One can be given to each guest, and one can be put into a guest book for the bride and groom to cherish forever!

Business parties host renowned silhouette artist Cindi Harwood Rose

                Cindi Harwood in the 70's and early 80's was a frequent guest at business conventions, private parties, and popular department stores such as Neiman-Marcus, Kaufman's, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Sanger-Harris hand-profiling people's silhouettes. Her real agent, Hal Burman, booked her throughout the United States and so did her agent in Pittsburgh, Pa.  to cut silhouettes of clients at VIP events.  Cindi, a graduate in communications (and fine art) at the University of Texas in Austin, was also a former beauty contest winner and television on-camera personality.  Thus, it was easy for her to relate to guests, give speeches about a company, and cut silhouettes as she worked.  Silhouette cutting to Cindi and working, was similar to "Whistling while you work".

                In the 80's she married Dr. Franklin Rose, and soon had two children, Erica and Benjamin.  Her silhouette career, did not take her globe-trotting to Canada, Hawaii, South America, Australia, Hong Kong,  France, Rome, UK, Scotland, and Ireland as in the past. It became Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Corpus Christi based, so that she could combine family with an edge of career.  She found that doing silhouettes in elite children's boutiques, pharmacy's, stationery stores, and toy stores, and the school fundraisers, fit nicely into being the nation's best mom, wife, and community leader.

                With children grown, Cindi Harwood Rose is now again making her talent available to the world at holiday parties, museum fund-raisers, art galleries, weddings, engagement parties, and other events. Here Cindi and her precious elves are busy at Texas Auto Direct, wishing all the best for the New Year!

Contemporary Silhouette Artist Cindi Harwood Rose, cuts above other paper profilers With added history too! Gina Pelano

                Do you think silhouette portrait art is old-fashioned, it can be, if the artist is not attuned to style, or is mimicking historical silhouette art work done by silhouette and shade artists in the 1700 and 1800's. Today's expert silhouette fine artist, Cindi Harwood Rose, is cuts above many of her contemporaries.  For one thing, she is the authentic, real-deal silhouette lady!  I was astounded to see her cut profile arts in Rhode Island.  She sits erect and handles authentic silhouette paper, and unique scissors talking as she works.  The side of the subject's face appeared from the acid-free paper in about 20 seconds and it was exact!  She told me that many of the artists that cut silhouettes are now using construction paper, and that the real silhouette paper is white on one side and black on the other.  Watch out if it is not, as it could not stand up in time, and be acid-free or good for the environment, it can fade.  The authentic silhouette paper lasts, but costs much more for the artists to buy, so that is why some are using black paper on both sides, but it is really a grey-black, Cindi explained. 

                True silhouette artisans cut from the white side, and this is what she learned as a teen-ager when she began her marvelous cut art creations of the individuals, and their pets!  However, when asked how she learned it, she immediately told me, she never learned to cut silhouettes, as it really can't be taught, even to wonderful portrait artists.  Cindi Rose said, she was born an artist, and I have to agree.  I also must mention, I did see a silhouette artist and his work was not from real silhouette paper, had no details, and actually looked cave-man style, the child had a neck the size of a prize fighter! Not Cindi's work, the children look like you want to hug them and love them, and she just captures their faces and makes them just darling.  So, when we talk silhouette artists, you should really examine the work that is being displayed in whatever promotion you are reading.  I asked Cindi where the great silhouette artists were.  She said she knew of good silhouette artists in Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, Texas, California, and possibly, New York.  Now that I searched the net, I have to say that I think Cindi Rose, is the America's finest silhouette artist. 

                I brought in a book from someone who says to take a photo and cut that out with any kind of paper, even wallpaper, and that was a silhouette. WRONG.  That is just something to do, similar to gluing rhinestones on something, pretending it is diamonds.

                 Reading the history of silhouette artwork, by Mrs. E. Nevell Jackson, I realized that it is an art, to capture the way someone dresses, acts, stands, wears their hair in paper, by cutting directly and not sketching first.  Of course, the exception is Kara Walker, and Dickens who are making unique dialogues about society.  But Cindi Harwood Rose, manages to make her silhouette or shade cuts into true art, with dialogue.  You can almost imagine who the person is, what they think, and exactly, how they wore their hair, as shown in these delightful intricate silhouette artworks by master Cindi H. Rose. 

Wedding idea! Silhouettes of Guests!

Extraordinary Silhouette Weddings!

                                Television star, Colin Cowie, is known for planning extraordinary weddings, and if it is not in your budget, you can add some of his tips to plan your own. Just like Colin, silhouette artist Cindi Harwood Rose, has also inspired wedding guests, brides and grooms, and calculating  MOB's with her expertise in cutting silhouettes at unique weddings for the past 35 plus years.  These lovely marriage ceremonies have all varied by different wedding planners, and styles of bride and grooms, some were royal, some were stars, some were common plain folk.  The underlying theme is union, exchange of vows, and wanting to give a special gift to the guests, even if there are 30 or 900.  That is where Silhouette artist, Cindi Harwood Rose comes in.  Her hand-cut profiles in miniature are mind-boggling spectacular. She has brought upon the wedding stage envelope in France, England, Dubai, Canada, LA, NY, Wisconsin, Texas, Colorado, Washington, Tennessee, Italy, Ireland, and on sea.  C. Rose, a natural artist, can merely look at someone and with surgical scissors and any color paper, carve a likeness with unique details that make it appear to speak to you.

                Often, she works with her silhouette sister, Kathryn Flocken, at venues in South America, Europe, Australia, New York, Florida, when people desire all guests at large weddings to have a treasured keepsake.  For more information see SilhouettesbyCindi.com and her Wedding Wonderful Supreme Video.  Both Kathryn and Cindi worked for Disney, Cindi at Disneyland and Disneyworld, Kathryn at Disneyworld.  Both have degrees in fine art, can draw portraits, do illustrations, and paint in many mediums.  C. Rose, has sculpted, welded, done pottery, watercolors, mixed media, acrylic, oils, and so has Kathryn who also can make the most glorious food safe acrylic silhouette cake toppers of the engaged couple.  At weddings, they help with the entire theme, from chair covers, to cake toppers, cookie cutters, invitations, cake choices, and often style-shoots. With Silhouette artist Cindi Harwood Rose working your wedding Martha Stewart and the O List style, you can say, "The Cake is Frosted."