Leaf Silhouette Custom Traditional Freehand Silhouette Portrait

Description

The leaf peepers are descending on the northeast, each day sudden with changes. Here in our cozy house, the ivy keeps the green with a hint of purple in the stem.

The freehand method of closely observing a person while cutting their portrait directly from a piece of paper was a favorite of itinerant silhouette artists in early America. Now you can send digital or print profile photos in your place and have them carefully rendered into delicate leaf likenesses. I provide you with scanned proofs of your cuttings. And then your artwork is mailed to you in a standard dimension glass clip frame (usually 8x10 inches, but may vary depending on particular leaves).

As your leaves cure there will be some light shrinkage and changing of color, but if kept pressed in a frame and out of direct sunlight, your piece should last a very long time.

My leaf profiles were featured in House Beautiful (April 2009, Get Cozy With Etsy.com), and you can Grace Bonney guest blogging them here on the Martha Stewart Wedding blog: http://blogs1.marthastewart.com/weddings/2009/07/thank-you-for-being-a-friend.html.

Algerian Ivy is available year-round. Hardwood and perennial leaves are available late May through October. Leaves above are from a smokebush (1) and a tulip poplar (2) and ivy (3).

Added on Oct 30, 2009

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