The Best one-stop
shop features Silhouette Artist Cindi Rose
By Renne
Dilenseger
It was a popular attraction to have renown silhouette artist Cindi Harwood Rose
at Bering's Back to School fashion show event. Happy moms, dads, grandparents
and lovely children, awaited with excitement for their silhouette to be hand-cut
by a master. They were also thrilled to be in America's top one shop store
which features hardware, housewares, furnishings, stationery, fine gifts, baby
registry, children's clothing and toys, and outdoor living. "This is my favorite
store to shop in," artist Cindi H. Rose claimed, "there is everything you could
ever want in giftware and cookery." The line waiting for the former Disney
artist included customers of hers from decades ago, who now wanted their next
generation to be silhouetted by the master. Some came with the idea of having
bride and groom silhouettes made with Bering's stationery department designing
the invitations, or holiday cards made from Cindi's detailed silhouettes. The
excitement too, was that 25 percent of the income was to benefit the Arthritis
Foundation. One man said he drove in from Dallas to have the former Disney
artist silhouette him. " He found me on my SilhouettesbyCindiFacebook, and had
his silhouette done by me when he was 5, and I was a teenager, doing silhouettes
for a Disney art company in Houston at Astroworld," the pop artist said.
Another woman, came in from San Antonio, where Rose had silhouetted her for The
San Antonio Express Newspaper, in 1981. A grandmother of two sets of twins, had
her children done by Cindi Harwood in New York, in 1983, when Cindi lived there
with her husband, famed plastic surgeon, Dr. Franklin Rose and her celebrity
daughter, Erica, now a reality star and law graduate from The Bachelor and other
TV shows.
Rose
was attired in silhouette necklaces that can be made from her own work scanned
and placed into findings from craft stores like Hobby Lobby or Michael's and
sealed with Modge Podge. She also had a silhouette game at her table for the
children to play with. Cindi Harwood did over 80 silhouettes in 4 ½ hours,
mounting and signing each one herself. "I love to do fundraisers for
Presidential and children's museums, schools, churches, historic houses, and
non-profits. It is a win/win. The venue gets more traffic and sales, and they
benefit financially," Mrs. C. H. Rose attested. Her work represented a modern
twist to the old-fashioned art, making it more pop fine art, with
style.
C. Rose taught herself to cut silhouettes as a young teen when she realized that
drawing portraits for a theme park was too competitive and messy. "I did not
know that silhouette cutting from life was a lost art and that there are only a
few handfuls of silhouette artists in the world. I just picked up the scissors
and cut one out by looking at the art manager, and he hired me on the spot, took
back my portrait artist smock, and let me design my own silhouette outfit," Rose
explained. For more information, look at SilhouettesbyCindi.com and see her
videos on YouTube. The real art of cutting a French styled silhouette is with
small black paper, no shadow, no light, no photo, just from observing a profile
and a personality, and then directly cutting the interpretation with fine
details. Lavatar, a German psychiatrist a few hundred years ago used silhouette
artists to help him determine personality from features.
