Natural Hair Art

I recently had a customer ask me if I sold silhouettes of children. I told her that it was in the works but I could design and cut a custom silhouette for her. She loved this idea and asked me to sketch and cut two natural hair paper cut silhouettes of two girls. She had pictures so I used them as my starting point and sketched silhouettes for her. I loved the way they came out! So I am going to create a listing for children silhouettes. 

Be on the look out!

I started off with two girls with loose big hair and the customer thought they looked similar  - which I agreed so I sketched a girl with afro puffs.

These are gorgeous! Don't you think?

Natural Hair Art t-shirts / Royal Queen

When I first started creating paper cut art I designed a couple of silhouettes of women's faces. One of those silhouettes really struck a cord with a lot of people. I received several request to put the art on a t-shirt or a even a bag. I thought that was an awesome idea but before I could even think of screen printing I needed funds.  I needed to sell some art on Etsy to fund this idea. Orders trickled in through the summer but it took awhile.... sadly. I didn't want to miss the hot weather, which was perfect for cute t-shirt wearing.

Through-out the summer I was in constant communication with a friend that has a screen printing company. I knew I wanted her and her husband to do this project for me. I had figured out the cost, worked on the color way, cleaned the art for printing and tried to get a marketing plan together. The summer came and went and I was finally able to get some funds together to purchase and screen a small order of tees. Big problem was Fall was knocking on the door and I wondered to myself if anyone successfully sells t-shirts in the Fall.  I did some research and found that t-shirt sell all through-out the year! So I went ahead and placed my order and got some pictures taken. Didn't have time to find a model so I used myself.

You can find my lovely Womens T-shirt Royal Queen at Etsy! I carry small, medium, large and xlarge.