<LI>Instructions and exercises for the basic techniques needed for making silhouettes: learning the proportions of a profile, tracing a shadow, reducing an image, drawing and cutting freely, and the author's own "natural waves" technique <LI>How to create scissor-cut portraits, painted silhouettes, hollow-cut silhouettes, silhouettes painted on glass, caricatures, and more <LI>Includes information on the history of the craft and examples from artists from the eighteenth century to today <LI>Creative and innovative suggestions for using color, appliqué, and three-dimensional effects <LI>How to mount and display silhouettes</LI>