Silhouette



Sorry about the terrible reflections in the frame

 Here's the third project we worked on during our garage nights.  I love this project but have to give props to the hubs for this one.  He did all the intricate cutting because he has the steadier hand.

Supplies we used:
Camera and Editing software
Scissors
Exacto Knife
White Colored-Pencil
Black Card Stock
Picture Frame


First we closed the white curtains in Brody's room on a sunny day so that the light would shine through.  Then Jeff held him up so just his silhouette would be in the pic, and I snapped away.



Unedited pic #1



Unedited pic #2

 Then I did some editing on the computer and increased the shadow to get a nice dark outline of his silhouette.

We went with pic #2.  Then we printed it off, cut it out, and traced the outline with a white colored-pencil onto black card stock. We weren't sure what to do about all the spikey baby fine hair and the eyelashes in the pic, but Jeff did a simply amazing job of free-hand drawing and cutting it so it would look "normal".  I mean, check that out!  He used an exacto knife to get a better finished cut. Then to get the typical silhouette look, he extended the shoulders a bit and polished up the bottom.

Then we stuck it in a white frame and hung it on the wall above his crib. 

We love love love it! 



Ignore the empty picture frame on the top left...
it is a place holder and will be replaced with
 another project I'm working on tonight!



I love how you can even see the funny little bump on the back of his head!


One thing we might have done differently for next time, is when we took the photo, we probably should have taken Brody's onesie off so we had a better image of his shoulders.  Jeff had to free-hand a chin and neck because of this, but it ended up turning out pretty great, we think!      What do you think?  Anyone else done a silhouette like this?  I just love the look of it!  I think I might do one every year of Brody to see how he grows.