The Best one-stop shop features Silhouette Artist Cindi Rose By Renne Dilenseger

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.

               

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How to learn to cut silhouette profiles from sight

How to learn to cut silhouette profiles from sight

By silhouette artist Cindi Harwood Rose

                When I was a little child, I would sit with my talented mother, and cut-out Valentine’s, snow-flakes, paper dolls, flowers, and  butterflies. My mother, Doris Harwood, a paper-cutting artist and architectural designer would also draw portraits, front and side-view.  Little did she know that this practice in contour would prepare her to be a natural in the fine art of English and French profile hand-cutting, an art difficult to master, that only a few handfuls of fine artists, are prolific at.   You can look on-line at The Guild of Paper cutters and see a listing of the world’s best silhouette artists and paper cutters from the past 300 years, and samples of their works.

                As a natural artist, skilled in life drawing, I got a job in my early teens at an amusement park drawing portraits.  While taking a tour, I saw a silhouette artist—someone cutting out profiles from black paper freehand without sketching or using a light—and said “I can do that.”   Laughed at, I was handed scissors, and thin black paper.  Freehand, without a sketch, or light, I cut out the manager’s profile, in less than two minutes, and the prior silhouette artist was fired on the spot.  What I did most, was compare each feature, the same way I would when I draw.  I used my scissors as I would “a thumb” to eyeball the spaces between the features in the subject’s profile

                Silhouette cutting for the Disney art concessionaire became my summer job, throughout high school and The University of Texas where I graduated in fine art and journalism. Later, I worked for Disney World and Disneyland, where  I broke park production records doing 600 silhouettes in a day.  Soon, I found myself doing silhouettes all over the world, for many celebrities, families, formal affairs, television shows, galleries, department stores, and collections. I made a world speed record in 1982, 144 silhouettes of 144 individuals cut-out in one hour, timed by The San Antonio Express Newspaper.

After a busy career, I married Franklin Rose, and had two children, Erica and Ben.  I used my silhouette art, as a fund-raiser for their schools, and many philanthropic causes, including Texas Children’s hospital, The Woman’s Hospital of Texas, The American Heart Association, The Ronald McDonald House, The Houston Symphony, and The Holly Rose Ribbon Foundation, a non-profit, I formed with my husband for uninsured cancer survivors.

                Paper-cutting was discovered in northwestern China around 386-586 AD with Chinese embroidery patterns, for the royal dynasties.  Silhouette-cutting  was associated with the royal courts.  It was not uncommon to have a silhouettist employed, capturing every movement of the entire court. Some paper-cutting artists, told stories, such as Hans Christian Anderson.

 The name silhouette, is from Etienne de Silhouette, a French minister of Finance, who was dismissed in 1759, after 9 months in office. He had cut out pensions and luxuries, thus, items “cut-out” or minimal in expense, reminded people of him.  Silhouettes were the way to have a profile made by an artist, without having to have a portrait drawn.  Oddly, a true silhouette, hand-cut by an artist, is more difficult than drawing a portrait, and all silhouette artists can draw portraits, but not all portrait artists can do silhouettes free-hand.  There are only around 25 to 50 real silhouette profilist artists in the world, and hand-cut silhouettes, not computer generated ones, only become more valuable in time.  It is not necessary to have little embellishments in your silhouettes. A good silhouette artist, will not give everyone the same hair-do and face, they will make you look like yourself, with the details that express your style. 

                 The beauty of a silhouette is passed down from generation to generation.  Rose has done silhouettes for over 35 years, and has done generations of families.  She prides herself on her likeness’s and embellishments—the white- cut-outs, when it adds to the profile and the style of the individual subject.   If you are a gifted portrait artist, especially keen with the profile, you have a good shot at being a real silhouette artist.  Not one who Photoshops, or traces a shadow off a wall, but a person, who can see features in comparison to other features, and in proportion.  You can start by drawing a profile, around 4 inches high, and cutting it out, or taking profile photos and cutting them out.  Once you figure out how to draw with scissors.  Practice with real people and pets.  Wrapping paper is a good medium to begin with, or computer paper.  If you want to make if official, spray paint one side black, but use the white side to cut from. You can also buy real French silhouette paper on the internet, or at your favorite art supply store.  Barber and surgical scissors make great tools to use, but are costly.  You want to make sure the scissors you use has a straight edge, so that you can control your cuts.  I like to start cutting from the bottom up, which is different than the way I draw. For fun, use colored backgrounds and junk mail.  It is wonderful what you can do with

the silhouette and your imagination.  Silhouettesbycindi.com 

Cindi Rose Fashions Silhouettes at Baby Bugaloo

Cindi Rose Fashions Silhouettes at Baby Bugaloo

Famous Silhouette Artist Cindi Rose will be at Baby Bugaloo for fashion week, Monday

Aug. 13, from 11 to 3, to hand-cut original silhouettes of customer’s profiles. She does

the lost, French art of looking and cutting freehand. Silhouettes $35 a person,

Copies $10 a person. Wiggly children and adults accepted. Appointments

Requested by phoning 512 301-3800. Takes a minute, lasts forever!

www.silhouettesbycindi.com

Silhouettes by Cindi in the Jewish Herald

Silhouettes by Cindi in the Jewish Herald!
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Tying the Knot with Silhouette Art!

Tying the Knot with Silhouette Art!

Silhouettes a cut above in beautiful Illinois-- 8 cities, 5 days!

Silhouettes a cut above in beautiful Illinois-- 8 cities, 5 days!

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Contemporary Cindi Rose Silhouettes

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Silhouettes by Cindi. Offering the best of contemporary silhouette cutting. I'd like to introduce you to my friend and silhouette artist, Cindi Harwood Rose. Cindi began cutting silhouettes when she was 16 years old. She is a co-founder of the Holly Rose Ribbon Foundation 501 (c ) (3) for which she creates custom "Silhouettes For Survivors," which are available for purchase. All Silhouette proceeds are dedicated to helping uninsured breast cancer survivors receive free reconstructive surgery. The Foundation was created in memory and honor of Holly Harwood Skolkin, Cindi's sister also a 20th and 21st century silhouette artist and humanitarian. Holly survived with Stage 4 breast cancer for 15 years. The Foundation was started during Holly's life and it continues in her honor. The Holly Rose Ribbon Foundation offers also offer wigs, support, permanent brows to those in chemo who lost their brows, and free reconstructive surgery to under and un-insured. Cindi Harwood Rose is acclaimed by the Guild of Papercutters as the premier silhouette artist of the last four decades. Cindi uses French silhouette paper that is more than 50 years old and no longer made. I first met Cindi in 1984, when she cut the silhouette of my son, Nathan, at Joske's Department store. I became friends with Cindi over the last few years as we have worked together to promote silhouette art, both antique and new. Cindi is talented, creative and responsive to requests for certain kinds of silhouettes. Her work is fresh and incorporates inspiration from historic silhouettists as well as contemporary work with an eye towards realism. When Cindi first visited my home gallery and shop, she was taken by the works of Everet Howard, the 19th century silhouettist who cut my logo silhouette at the very top of the page. Howard used very creative, varying bust-line terminations. At Cindi's next silhouette-cutting event, she incorporated creative, varying bust-line terminations in her work. She soon cut my silhouette with such a creative bust-line termination. Recently, I asked Cindi to cut a very elaborate silhouette that I could give to Nathan and his fiancé, Rachel, as a wedding shower gift. I forwarded my favorite of their engagement photos to Cindi and asked her to recreate it in silhouette with an elaborate background. She obliged, offering three wonderfully creative silhouettes from which I could choose. Cindi is available to cut silhouettes for your special occasion. She cuts designs for wedding invitations and even does some silhouette jewelry. Proceeds from her silhouette cutting goes to the Rose Ribbon Foundation. I am not receiving a commission nor any other type of compensation as a result of this or any other mention of Cindi and her work. I think she is the best of the current silhouettists. Please look at the silhouettes pictured here and also make sure to visit Cindi at Silhouettes by Cindi, where you will find more examples of her work as well as her email address.

DisneyWorld cutting edge silhouette artists, Cindi and Holly Harwood tell-all!

DisneyWorld cutting edge silhouette artists, Cindi and Holly Harwood tell-all!

Kenneth J. Downing strikes a cool silhouette

Kenneth J. Downing strikes a cool silhouette

By Deborah J. Miller

International traveler, yet Dallas resident, Kenneth J. Downing, recently created quite a buzz with his juxtaposition of silhouettes on the runway for Neiman-Marcus in Houston. The event was The Spirit of Spring Children’s Assessment Center Luncheon, chaired by slender fashion plates Diane Caplan Brown and Nancy Marcus (where did she get that middle name?) Golden, formerly of Dallas and Beverly Hills. Ken J. (as his closest friend call him) happens not to only be a television fashion diva—think Project Runway All Stars, Oprah, E! Entertainment, Fox News, he is the senior Vice President and Fashion Director of Neiman Marcus world-wide. Yet, the gift to him, that most pleased his inner child was made by humanitarian and silhouette artist Cindi Harwood Rose—his custom silhouette portrait, as shown. Cindi in Givenchy, pulled out her famous plastic surgeon husband, Franklin’s surgical scissors (or maybe her own)and some antique, thin black paper, and without a sketch, she snipped his likeness, sans the hair-cut. His golden locks, normally seen, had been trimmed, thus, fine artist, Cindi Rose, captured that, his facial features, whimsical personality, and his slender, boyish charm. “OHHHHH!” Kenneth exclaimed, “My mother will love this, she collects silhouettes and has around 600 in her home!” Cindi Rose immediately placed it into a black wooden frame with gold leaf, and jewels she had placed on the frame herself. When asked how she managed to mix the classic, modern, traditional, and antique, with humor, she explained, “It is interpretive, I could never frame a silhouette for Kenneth J. Downing in the average, that he is not.” The NM fashion show displayed art equal to Cindi Harwood Rose’s unique silhouette talents, and in themes. First, purple, then pink, then floral, next patterns with odd combinations of patterns, yet somehow fitting and quite whimsical. “This was the best Children’s Assessment Center Event I have ever been to,” Cindi Harwood Rose explained. “The Children’s Assessment Center helps children that were raped with recovery, and support. “ To donate contact Jull Buja@cac hctx.net

Remembering When...

Hi Cindi,

I just saw you photo on my aunt’s Facebook page (Betty Jukes) … then clicked through to your website. In the late 70s (maybe early 80s) I worked for your art business at AstroWorld. Perusing your website brought back memories of a fun summer during college when I worked two day jobs to earn extra spending money for the fall – then went to the fun summer job drawing portraits until park closing. That seems like so long ago, and yesterday – time is odd that way J

Living in Delaware with husband & daughter, enjoying life as a “big bank marketer” ... and just reaching out to say “hello”,

All the best,

Margaret (Jukes) Boone

Silhouette Artist Cindi Rose

Cindi Harwoood Rose is a psychic silhouette artist who by sight goes into the fourth dimension and hand-cuts a profile of individuals, healing them, and making them look like themselves, while she captures their spirit, and can guide them and inspire them while she works, as the gift of this art is G-d given.

Not only does Cindi Rose have the world speed record, in hand-cutting profiles from French silhouette paper, she is the only artist in the world that has the antique, authentic paper which is over 50 years old. Cindi Rose donates proceeds to the Rose Ribbon Foundation (501) ( c ) (3) soon to be Holly Rose Ribbon Foundation in honor and memory of her sister, Holly Harwood Skolkin, who died a week ago from a 15 year struggle with breast cancer, which went to her liver. With Holly’s love, and support while alive, they created the cancer foundation to offer wholeness of spirit and body to others with critical opportunities of all sexes, ages including wigs, eyebrows, breast reconstructed, support groups, recipes, plus the idea of giving blessings. Cindi and her husband, Dr. Franklin Rose, a reconstructive and plastic surgeon, started the foundation 7 years ago, while Holly was alive. Cindi has been doing “Silhouettes for Survivors” and was made an American Hero for that from American Profile Magazine. She goes to stores and boutiques, and they set up silhouette days, and the money goes to the foundation. A former Walt Disney artist, and fine art honor graduate, Cindi has been drawing portraits since 8 years old and began cutting silhouettes for Disneyland at 16, without a lesson. There are no lessons for the real silhouette art, which is carving a profile from sight in a minute from black paper, in miniature, without a sketch or light, freehand. Cindi Rose, the world’s best silhouette artist also holds the world speed record—144 people in one hour. The Guild of Papercutters ranks Cindi Harwood Rose as the world’s premier silhouette artist. She has done silhouettes over 40 years, her sister Holly could do silhouettes, their mother was a fine artists, architect, and papercutter, and the artwork just came to Cindi, while working as a teen drawing portraits at Disneyland.

Creative Freehand Silhouette Artist

For one of the best charity ideas, Roland Garcia and his wife, Karen, acquired silhouette artist, Cindi Rose, to hand-cut original silhouettes at their home, in the name of giving. For a check to the non-profit, The Rose Ribbon Foundation 501 ( c ) ( 3 ), C. Harwood Rose, did creative freehand cut profiles of over one hundred guests in costume. The RRF was formed by Cindi and her husband, Dr. Franklin Rose, in honor of Holly Harwood Skolkin, Cindi’s sister a 14 year cancer survivor. The foundation provides free wigs, reconstruction, support, menus, and outreach to hundreds of people per year. Cindi Rose’s silhouettes are known for style, capturing the inner psyche as well as outside features of the individual, in a dialogue that interprets their persona. For more information go to silhouettesbycindi.com, silhouettesbycindifacebook, or roseribbonfoundation.org

Cindi Harwood Rose lectures about Silhouettes to the DAR

The American Revolution was remembered by its heroes, who often could not afford an oil portrait. Thus, the talented portrait artists of the day, also hand-cut silhouettes. This was demonstrated with an informative and captivating lecture by premier silhouette artist, Cindi Harwood Rose, as outlined in the Alexander Love Chapter of DAR’s newsletters highlighting this fascinating historical presentation by C. Rose, also an American Hero, for her silhouettes for survivors, awarded by American Profile Magazine.

Wife gets her aging dog’s silhouette made for a New Year’s resolution

The most amazing gift can be a thoughtful one. Reece Davenport got a custom hand-cut Cindi Rose silhouette made of Ocho for her adorable husband, Fulton. What do

you get the man who has everything (I mean he has Reece for a wife, and that is everything)—a silhouette of his best friend! She just e-mailed a profile photo, to www.silhouettesbycindi.com

selected a frame, and there was the happy howl-aday gift. What a great way to start the New Year, remembering and cherishing a moment that will make it last forever.

Silhouette Artist's Amazing Review

Cindi -

Good Afternoon, and Happy Thanksgiving,

I am sending this message in hopes of finding out where you might be that I can send

my kids, I've told them this is all I want for Christmas.

I have a Silhouette from when you sat in front of the Emporium at ASTROWORLD,

I worked at the store when I was sixteen, and would watch you in such amazement.

my mother still has my silhouette it hangs mixed in with other pictures. It has made

a few moves over the years but has always hung with her most precious memories.

Everyone ask her where she got it, and of course it is no question who it's of. You made such an impression on me that summer I have never forgotten your kindness nor your name.

I have always told my kids that I wanted one of them, well they are 23 and 25, I think

it is past time.

Please let me know, how we can schedule an appointment or where you might be

that they can come.

Thank you and look forward to hearing from you.

Kelly H.

Review of "Silhouette Art" Reclaiming Lost Innocence; The Power of A Cindi Rose Silhouette

Review of "Silhouette Art"

Reclaiming Lost Innocence; The Power of A Cindi Rose Silhouette

by George Molho, Author of "Scarred, a Memoir"

Silhouette artist Cindi Rose would like you to view the knol: Review

of "Silhouette Art". Click the following link where you can read the knol.

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Silhouette miniature original portraits hand-cut in minutes for gifts

Silhouette profile miniatures past and present, have been cherished in the 17^th, 18^th, 19^th, 20^th, and 21^st century. The art of scissors cutting profiles freehand, has been prized by royalty, celebrities, and families. At one point, the Pennsylvania Dutch, would secure their family miniature silhouettes in their Bibles. The French established the art’s popularity, but it was silhouettest, Augustin Edouart, who named the art “silhouette” after Etienne de Silhouette. He was the most prolific American Silhouette artist, the first “silhouette man”. Today, there are four people calling themselves that. John Miers also used that title for himself. A few women call themselves “The silhouette lady.” My favorite of these women, is Kathryn Flocken.

Have you ever watched a genuine paper profile artist hand-cut a likeness of a person or pet, without a sketch, light, or shadow, in minutes. It appears like magic—they look and cut, from sight. This is an especially great gift during the holidays, for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, or Father’s Day, for a loved one or a best friend. SilhouettesbyCindi offers original, one-of-a-kind silhouettes for purchase, signed. The silhouette ladies, Kathryn and Cindi, also do silhouettes at weddings, events, business conventions, and celebrity gifting suites. They are also a top fundraising idea for schools and non-profits. Kathryn, can do silhouettes a whole school for a fundraiser. Just take terrific profile pictures, and go to PaperPortraits.com and pay on line securely through PayPal, and she will send back the lovely silhouettes, done, mounted, signed, framed. These are not photo shopped, they are authentic. Kathryn and Cindi do interior details, groupings—one face cut into another, these are the type of museum silhouette art to invest in. Holly Harwood Skolkin also does silhouettes. Silhouette art talent is inherited. Cindi and Holly Harwood have three to four generations of profiling and paper cutting in their genes. Although both started doing silhouettes in their teen-age years, and during college, they both slowed down while raising children, and doing other careers—Holly an inner-eye photographer, Cindi, a writer, publicist, and director and founder of a cancer non-profit, The Rose Ribbon Foundation. People can donate to cancer causes by purchasing silhouettes from Cindi Harwood Rose, she calls them silhouettes for survivors through roseribbonfoundation.org.

Many silhouette artists offer their services on-line such as Paperportraits.com which sells three silhouettes for $25.00. There are over 15 tutorials on E-how, on how to cut a silhouette, but those are for the novice, non-artist. These are not silhouettes, they are shadow tracings, or photo-shopped color-ins, and rarely really look like the person, as the shadow is often distorted. I examined and commented as “Cindi Rose Silhouette Artist” on all of them. The only good one, was the tutorial that suggested how to make silhouette images of full figures for parties. The problem is the tools on these e-how tutorials. They use cardboard, and rough paper. They cannot get the lovely smooth cuts skilled silhouette artists get. In addition, since they cannot draw a portrait with a pen or pencil (unless they are maybe an art teacher skilled in that?), how could they translate the shadow, and actually do a good job cutting it out afterwards, where it was not clumsy? They paste the art with Elmer’s glue, which leaves tell-tale signs. For great silhouette ideas look at You Tube silhouette artist and view the speed, quality, personality, and style of the artists. Also, look at the Guild of American Paper cutters site, and see the history of the marvelous art of silhouettes, historical, contemporary, modern, and cultural—past and present.

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Silhouette artist Cindi Harwood Rose sculpts Vienna’s Nose

Silhouette artist Cindi Harwood Rose sculpts Vienna’s Nose

by Nicole Brende

ABC’s popular Bachelor Pad will start airing Monday, August 8, starring friends Erica Rose and Vienna Giraldi. Both girls will be on all episodes. While filming, Vienna confessed to tiara-clad Erica, that she did not like her nose. She did not know that Erica’s father, Franklin Rose, was a plastic surgeon. Erica suggested and arranged for Vienna to get her nose done by her father. Law student/reality star Erica picked Vienna up from the airport, and had her sleep at her parents’ home. Next day, Erica’s mother, Cindi, came in with surgical scissors, to perform nasal surgery” a la silhouette art” on Vienna. In a minute, Cindi silhouetted Vienna’s crocked nose from thin black paper, freehand, making two copies. Vienna exclaimed, “Oh, I love this, I will always remember why I am having my nose done.” Then, in a snip Cindi performed nasal surgery on the other silhouette. “This “ Cindi said, “is how my husband may make your nose.” The nose will be unveiled in US Weekly this week. Don’t get confused when you watch Bachelor Pad, that is Vienna’s nose before she had it done.

Now that Vienna has a new nose, word is she will be filming her own reality show on a country television network, called something like, Vienna’s Hillbillies.”