In an attempt to attract the attention of her distant and very-busy hero, she started making silhouette portraits of the various actors around her.

Her strategy worked well, for within the next year she recorded that she made more than 600 photographic silhouette portraits.

Her mother once took her to a lady who cut silhouette portraits out of crisp black paper at a shopping mall.

Visitors may sit for silhouette portraits ($12-$22) and so may their pets; reservations required.

He built a portable camera obscura that let him make silhouette portraits in less than 15 minutes.

Visitors may sit for silhouette portraits ($12.50-$25).

A silhouette portrait can be painted or drawn.

However, the traditional method of creating silhouette portraits is to cut them from lightweight black cardboard, and mount them on a pale (usually white) background.

Some modern silhouette artists also make silhouette portraits from photographs of people taken in profile.

In addition, he operated a drawing school and executed inexpensive silhouette portraits.