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	<h2>by Rebecca Klein</h2>	
	
	<p><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 13pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Cooper Johnson is one lucky 3-year-old. When he pops in to his dad&rsquo;s home office, he often leaves with a work of art. &ldquo;When he needs a daddy fix, he&rsquo;ll come in and say, &lsquo;Make me something,&rsquo;&rdquo; shares dad, Karl Johnson.<br />
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He&rsquo;ll ask me for a lizard or a bug,&rdquo; describes this Southern California dad. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m constantly cutting out these shapes that come to his mind. He&rsquo;s my biggest customer by far.&rdquo; <br />
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Johnson is a third generation silhouette artist and is often hired to do children&rsquo;s portraits. He uses his prized surgical scissors, passed down from his father. While other parents have zillions of pictures of their kids, Cooper&rsquo;s childhood is well documented in silhouette.<br />
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Johnson is also often commissioned to do silhouettes of adults. He has cut dozens of celebrity profiles, including of Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Garner. </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">His <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">artwork is featured in the movie, <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Black Swan</span></em>, starring Natalie Portman, and decorates the walls of the silhouette studio at Hong Kong&rsquo;s Disneyland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Brides and grooms also make up a large part of Johnson&rsquo;s clientele. He mainly works from profile photographs and creates in-person silhouettes at special events and weddings around the country.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><br />
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&ldquo;</span>Silhouettes make wonderful keepsakes. &nbsp;It is really a dying art form and there are not many true silhouette artists still working today,&rdquo; he says.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>At age 10, Johnson learned the art from his father and explains that there is a reason he &ldquo;took to it like a fish to water.&rdquo;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Johnson is blind in one eye. &ldquo;&hellip;I see two dimensionally anyway. When I look at someone&rsquo;s profile, it&rsquo;s already in silhouette.&rdquo; He first turned his hobby into a career as a vendor at a Colorado Springs mall in 1995.<br />
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&ldquo;Silhouette cutting has gained a lot of resurgence right now because everything else is so technological,&rdquo; he believes. &ldquo;I think today we&rsquo;re so technologically inundated. You don&rsquo;t even know anymore if artwork is created by someone&rsquo;s hand or a computer.&rdquo; <br />
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Silhouettes start at $25. For more information, visit <a>cutarts.com</a>.</span></span></font></p></p>
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