Framed Faces

One of my latest projects was something that I did when I was in First Grade.  I remember my teacher had all of the children in her class sit in a chair next to the wall, one by one, with an overhead projector light pointing at our heads.  She would then let another student trace our shadow on the wall which created a silhouette.  I thought it was SO awesome!

So I decided that Dakota & I should try it as adults.  At this point, I must give my First Grade teacher some praise.  I have no idea how she got young children to sit still long enough to trace their figures.  Dakota & I are grown adults and we had such a hard time sitting still.  It seemed as if every time one of us would start to draw the other, someone would laugh causing us to start all over because the person modeling moved.

About a half hour later ( & lots of laughs), we finally finished tracing each other's shadows.  I cut out the figures and traced them to make duplicates.  We made two different setups, the one pictured above where our silhouettes are layered on top of each other with a bright green background (the accent color in our bedroom is bright green) and the one pictured below with our individual silhouettes side by side.

We purchased all three of these frames at a yard sale for between $0.10 and $0.25.  However, they need to be painted.  We had a lot of fun doing this craft and it was great that we could spend time together making something that we will have hanging in our bedroom for a long time.

It would be interesting to do this again in several decades (when we are old) and see the differences!