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How Sophie paints silhouettes

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Each painted portrait is unique and original, never a print!

 

You can choose a single, double or triple portrait, of the subject of your choice.  They can be traditional profiles, facing each other, overlapping in the same direction or action shots

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Simply send Sophie the photo/s - detailed instructions below on how to take the best shot - and she will recreate your beloved with meticulous precision.

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Sophie adopts the same technique and tools used by silhouette artists 250 years ago. It is a time-consuming process but essential to achieve a true likeness. She starts with a firm pencil outline, then she applies a layer of black ink with miniaturist precision. The final stage uses gouache, a highly pigmented media which gives the silhouettes their characteristic depth, opacity and texture and makes them so special.  This is a trial and error process and a single brushstroke the thickness of a hair can create enormous distance between the subject and his true likeness.

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Contact Sophie to enquire about your own

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