The Roving Artist: customising our silhouettes

We offer a number of optional extras to help customise our work to the nature of your event, such as:

Custom Printed backing cards, for mounting silhouettes with your logo or other event details
Pre-cut silhouettes of key people at the event
Standard backing cards, for mounting silhouettes at any event
A Giclée print of all the silhouettes cut at your event
On the spot frames
Charles' Silhouette wheel
Coloured Silhouettes

Many of these extras are free, for others there's a small extra charge.

Custom Printed Backing Cards

Silhouette backing cards printed with your logo and any other information you might like to add about your event. These are a good idea for many events, but are most recommended for product launches, trade shows, and other events where the emphasis is on raising your corporate profile.

National Gallery backing cards (22K jpeg)

A set of recent custom cards for a wide range of events

On the right, cards made for both The National Gallery & the National Portrait Gallery, both of whom have booked silhouette artists on more than one occasion.

These cards are quite versatile, and we welcome any ideas you may have about how they should look. There is a small charge to cover artwork and printing. If you would prefer to make your own we are happy to provide samples and advice on layout.

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Pre-cut Silhouettes

If you send us a photo or two we will cut some silhouettes before the event. Particularly appropriate for birthday parties, weddings, bat-mitzvahs and the like. You can use the silhouettes on invitations, or we can add them to a custom backing card. This service is free when booking a silhouettist for an event.

A collection of cards made for weddings. The silhouette of the bride and groom appears on the front of the card, together with the date of the wedding inside. These cards add much to your guest's memories of the day in future years.

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Standard backing cards

Custom backing cards are not appropriate for every event. Here is a collection of our standard Roving Artist cards in various sizes. They are printed in black on white laid card.

These are the cards we use as standard if you don't wish to have your own card printed. There's no charge as the cost of these is included in our fee.

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Giclée prints

These are created using the white off-cuts which we collect while working at your event. Supplied as an A3 print, framed and signed by the artist, they are usually delivered about 14 days after the event.

Sometimes it is possible to order these after the event, although this does depend on how recent an event it was and which artist was booked.

There is a printable version of this file for you to look at.

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On the spot frames

The silhouette cards we use are all designed to fit neatly into a 6"x 4" or 7"x 5" photo frame. If you like we can bring a box of smart black or wooden frames to distribute among your guests to instantly frame their silhouettes. We will only charge you for the frames you actually use. This option is suitable for VIP events where you want all your guests to leave with a unique and very personal gift. It can also work well well at trade shows.

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The Silhouette Wheel

One of Charles' specialities. Everybody at the event is cut from a single sheet of paper and presented to the host at the end of the evening. This is usually done at small dinner parties and other private events, but could be done at any kind of event. This is limited only by the number of guests and the time of your event!

The hole in the middle is to accommodate the artist's hand while working. Larger wheels can end up going right round his arm and over his shoulder! (and in the end the "wheel" needn't be a wheel at all, but could be any shape you like really.)

There is no extra charge for this, but it needs a little planning.

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Coloured Silhouettes

The traditional colour of a silhouette is black, however in the 21st century it needn't always be so! In truth there are times when we've been tempted to answer the more extreme questions on this subject in the inimitable style of Mr Ford:

"They can have them any colour they like, just so long as it's black..."

However, there are times when a change in colour can make an interesting change.

A silhouette cut from red paper and mounted on black card creates a very striking image.
A hollow cut silhouette, cut from white paper and mounted on black card, is an interesting and very traditional variation on the theme.
A blue silhouette mounted onto white or cream card to match the colours of a well known corporate logo.
A range of silhouettes cut from patterned paper and mounted onto either black or white card. This kind of patterning is quite extreme and does interfere with the natural simplicity of a silhouette, however it could perhaps work at an event where the pattern is highly significant to the audience.

In general we are happy to cut silhouettes from colours other than black, and there is no extra charge for doing so, but obviously it does need to be discussed before the event itself. If we feel the colours you request really cannot be made to work we'll try to suggest alternatives a little more diplomatically then Mr Ford!

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