Tuesday, 5 November 2013

Karl Johnson

Karl Johnson is an American premier silhouette artist; who had practiced making rare art shapes and forms for most of his life.  He learned this unique skill as a young boy from his father who had been taught many years earlier by a friend of his family.

Karl art movement is cut art, which is a technique that artists cut out entirely black paper freehand by using a scissor. All he does is simply looks at the person or objects, or from a photograph and cuts out a black paper of their exact shape and form from their poses.Every Silhouette is an original, one of a kind work of art, signed by the artist.

Karl's work is currently featured in Restoration Hardware Baby & Child and was on The O List in Oprah Magazine as well as over 30 other magazines! Karl also has created silhouettes for many celebrities, like Reese Wither soon, Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Jennifer Garner, Jennifer Lopez, Drew Barrymore and more

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