Another Chesco Wedding Connect evening!

 I joined a very nice group of wedding professionals on a chilly late-spring evening, to network and show off my silhouette skills on Tuesday. Thanks to Tara and Amanda at Chesco Wedding Connect for putting these on! Toured a new-ish venue, Chesterdale Farm...an amazing eighteenth-century barn restored to its former glory.

Listened to a few talks...

And did a few silhouettes!

You can follow these ladies:  this marketing expert,  mobile bar owner Carolyn, and  photographer Elizabeth who posted her silhouette on her IG! Thank you!

Ran into a friend too! Virtuoso musician Brian Fitzgerald was there. I've known his wife all her life and did a very purple-y caricature for their wedding, which you can see here. 

So of course, I cut a caricature of their little girl  (from a photo) for him :-)

This is the beautiful view upon leaving:

Before heading to this event, I stopped at a cemetery about 2 miles away...and paid my respects to the great NC Wyeth and his family. I like to leave little heart-shaped pebbles at my own family's final resting places. This was the first non-family member I ever did that for...because this man's art inspired many others in his wake. 

Silhouettes at networking cocktail party

On Tuesday evening, I travelled to a new-ish industrial-style event venue, Casablanca, in my previous hometown of Coatesville, PA---to network with other wedding professionals, at a very nice event put on by Tara at Engaged Management. As usual, many of the attendees had never seen a live silhouette artist at work before!

This is the view from one of the windows, in the refurbished hi-rise building. 

(I used to live just beyond the hill on the far right side.) 

Everyone was delighted and I made many new contacts!

I did most of these by stealth... 

Her reaction made my evening!

The ladies room had one of the biggest mirrors I'd ever seen!

4th holiday gig of 2024----a Gala Fundraiser with SILHOUETTES

 Saturday night's first event was a gala fundraiser that I was honored to cut silhouettes at last year as well, in a festively decorated country club.  Ambiance Reel!

Many of the attendees whose silhouettes I cut expressed delight upong how quickly I was able to create their profile portraits!

Thank you for having me!

Swarthmore College Silhouettes

This was a VERY special silhouette event, as the McCabe Library at Swarthmore College brought out some antique 18th-century Quaker silhouettes from their Special Collections to share with students and faculty. This was to fit into the theme of "Body Liberation" week on campus. Having this artist there to cut live silhouettes was the icing on their cake!

 

I will be going back in the summer to visit, so I can really spend some time looking at some of these precious works of art... and some very scholarly books on the subject (just couldn't do so on this day, as I was non-stop busy!)

Here are some of the ones I cut for some very delighted subjects:

(you can click on them to see them at a larger size)

These two silhouettes are of the same person, one from kindergarten and one from 2024!

Thank you for having me! It was all my pleasure!