Audrey Hepburn Silhouette Project

While at IKEA with friends last January, I saw an awesome black and white Audrey Hepburn silhouette. I liked the idea so much that I didn't forget about and when I found out I was to be giving my sister Heidi a Christmas present, I knew I wanted to try to duplicate it. I originally thought I would sketch it and then paint it with black acrylics, but I came up with a better plan. It was unfortunate that I couldn't find any square canvases, but I think it worked out just fine in the regular 16x20 format.

First, I lightened up a picture I had of it and made it enormous. Then, I split it into four sections on four pages and printed it out and taped it to the 16x20 canvas.




Next, I used a fine-point permanent marker to trace all the details. This took forever and sacrificed quite a bit of wrist power . . . each line took about 15 layers before it went through the paper--I really should have found some bad quality paper.




Finally, I used progressively bigger permanent markers to fill in the outlines. Whew, anyone in my room would have been high it stunk so bad. ;) But it sure looked cool. And I think my sister liked it.





What do you think?

Do you want to buy one from me? Go to my store here.

P.S. Enter my January giveaway here! (POST EDIT: CLOSED.)