Scissor Craft

In a random google today, I came across this wonderful website by artist Wilhelm Staehle. I have always enjoyed silhouette illustrations, ever since I first discovered Arthur Rackham’s pictures when I was a child. I do like Staehle’s biography on his website – it reminds me of that other great children’s author, Lemony Snicket.

Silhouette Masterpiece Theater is a gallery for the works of Wilhelm Staehle, a horribly disfigured gentleman who often frightens small children when passing. In his free time between sporting for fox hunters & dressing his disturbingly broad collection of taxidermy, he finds time to make silhouettes. He begs you to enjoy them. Or at least not to inform him if you do not. He thanks you for your time.

Look through his gallery.