Silhouettes at the Delaware Bridal Expo

I spent a lovely Sunday afternoon cutting silhouettes of future brides (and others!) at the Delaware Bridal Expo, held at the Chase Center on the Riverfront. It was slow to start, then chaotically busy. My husband was along to take photos and chat up folks in my massive line!

Many of the people I chatted with had never seen a live silhouette artist, and had no idea it could be done as entertainment/wedding favors at receptions. I gave out so many business cards I was worried I wouldnt have any left!

My husband took a lot of time-lapse videos, which I will be putting up on my Youtube when I get a chance. Til then, here are a couple of Instagram links:

Continuous Production.   My booth.    Two brides timelapse. 

Silhouettes at an antique-car-museum fete!

Saturday afternoon's event was held on a brilliantly blue-sky-ed, crisp afternoon, and found me cutting silhouettes in period costume!

 

There were some amazing cars there, I liked the really old ones:

Even KooKoo the Cartoon Clown had a noteworthy vehicle--which left bubbles trailing in its wake!!!

Thanks for having me for a fabulous day of silhouetting, Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles!!!

Silhouettes at Afternoon Wedding Reception!

My cherished assistant-photographer-chauffeur husband accompanied me to this event, so I have some good photos from different vantage points. :-)

Here's a time-lapse of my set-up process:

...and here's the results!

My presence there was a surprise to the bride and groom;  the bride's brother had booked me for his own wedding a few years back. Here they are with their silhouettes, and their entrance.

My hubby got some nice action photos of me at work:

Another action video:

I pasted the duplicate silhouettes into a book for the bride and groom, here are a few of the pages:

Another successful silhouette artist event on the books (literally!)

On the way home, we witnessed a  beautiful sunset.

Bridgerton-themed Silhouettes on the waterfront!

On a gorgeous spring day in Maryland, I teamed up with the only other silhouette artist I know, to cut Bridgerton-themed silhouettes for guests of a special event, sponsored by Havre de Grace Living. This little girl was one of the volunteers, and my first silhouette of the afternoon!

Havre de Grace is at the confluence of the Susquehanna River and the Chesapeake Bay. 

My colleague Ted Stuessy, of Shadow Cuts, sat with me, near the historic lighthouse. :-) 

Here we are, set up and ready to snip! I wore my Edwardian dress and hat. 

Here's Ted in action! We soon were both busy though, and I wasn't able to get a photo of one of his finished silhouettes. 

Folks came in all sorts of period costumes!

Here's some of my work. The silhouettes all had HdGLiving's logo printed on the lower left. 

When I got home, I photographed some of my offcuts. You can see how much fun I had cutting the intricate and interesting headwear!

Thanks to Gigsalad for putting us in touch with HdGLiving! 

Here is the review I received, thank you so much!

Emily was one of two silhouette artists at a themed charity event and she was phenomenal. Not only did the guests rave about her, but she was so easy to work with. Flexible and a great communicator, will definitely hire again. Thank you!

 

DCAD Art Party 2019--Silhouettes!

 Ready to cut!!! Delaware College of Art and Design had me back fo another fundraising soiree, where my silhouettes were courtesy of our local Jerry's Artarama. :-)

See some ambiance below!

Here are some time-lapse videos of my flying scissors!

Since I had my personal photographer along (my husband) there are more images of me than usual!

Silhouettes at a birthday party!

A daughter booked me for her silhouette-loving mom's 60th birthday party in their home. She'd had her children done back in the 90's at a children's boutique event--they are the framed ones in the top row. Below, you can see my silhouettes of them----as adults!

So I spent a lovely afternoon chatting with their guests while I cut silhouettes at a card table set up in the living room...

This is a view of my table top:

The unquestioned star of the party was the first (and only) grandchild of the birthday girl and her husband, this is the little guy with his mom. I cut quite a few versions of him for everyone who wanted one. 

Thank you to my client, and to Gigmasters!

Silhouettes at a high school Prom!

After a hectic afternoon doing caricatures at a nearby university, I headed to this popular restaurant which was hosting a Hollywood-themed prom. I've also done caricatures here before, under this same rotunda, so that's what the staff was expecting me to do. I said, no, tonight is something different! Silhouettes!

This couple arrived early for a photo shoot so they were my first silhouette subjects! I never did get my own photo of them...they had just spent a good half hour posing for their own photographer!

Once the couples started arriving, my scissors flew along. 

They're all cut out of one piece of 4 x 6 rectangular paper, into a heart-shaped couple, romantically looking onto each others' eyes. Awwwww!

I cut few of the chaperones too!

I wore my feather boa as my one concession to Hollywood glamour!

Thanks for having me, WCS!