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Considered by many as one of the universe’s kindest people, and perhaps, highest evolved souls, former silhouette artist, Holly Harwood Skolkin passes peacefully. Holly, was the daughter of Doris and Earl Harwood, a fine artist, and attorney. Holly was always upbeat and precious, and very talented, in all arts. She is survived by her sister, Bonny Cotlar, an intellect and humanitarian, and Cindi Harwood Rose, an internationally acclaimed silhouette artist, who also worked for Disneyland and Disneyworld.
Holly’s struggle with stage 4 cancer for over 15 years, inspired Holly, Cindi, and Cindi’s husband, Dr. Franklin Rose, a renowned plastic and reconstructive surgeon, to form The Rose Ribbon Foundation 501 ( c ) ( 3 ), a non-profit which provides free reconstruction to those uninsured and underinsured. Holly remarkably was able to help others throughout her cancer opportunity, giving blessings, and doing good deeds. She was also an accomplished photographer, who became a master at inner-eye photography and diagnosing disease. Some of her peers claim that Holly Harwood Skolkin was one of the first to detect AIDS in the eye, from photos she had taken. Her husband, Dr. Mark Skolkin, is a famed radiologist, who stood by her side throughout her long sickness. It was amazing how she would find pleasure in bringing food to those sick, when she was sick, or buying clothes for the poor, but not buying clothes for herself. More than 1,400 came to her funeral, and she was buried in 1 ½ days.
She is survived by her beautiful children, Emory, who works in development at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital and Dayna, a nursing student at University of Texas in Austin. Holly was an incredible mother, friend, wife, and sister, great artist, award winning photographer, and ICON in the realm of giving to many causes. She especially loved the Aishel House which provides kosher meals, housing, transportation, and child care to critically sick families who come to Houston for its wonderful medical center, considered the best in the world. Another cause that Holly served on the board on is The River, which provides art, dance, and theatre lessons to children with challenges and disabilities, including Down Syndrome, loss of sight, CP, CF, hearing impaired.
Some people call Holly, “Holly Lama, Wholy Holly (for making ill people feel whole), Holly Dolly, a guru, a saint, a mensch, and a Tzadic. Her huge smile and bright eyes, and kind heart, shown even moments before she passed. Because of her legacy, and inspiration the Rose Ribbon Foundation will soon be called the Holly Rose Ribbon Foundation. Presently, it can be found at http://roseribbon.org/ and donations can be made on-line. Silhouettes can be ordered as donations by logging on to silhouettesbycindi.com to contribute towards Silhouettes for Survivors. For more information on Holly and Cindi, check out American Profile Magazine’s story on Cindi Harwood Rose’s silhouettes for cancer survivors. Holly Harwood Skolkin was a hero, a humanitarian, and perhaps, the most loved human on earth. Her good deeds will live on forever, she is a silhouette of a lovely, kind, great human, some say one of the top 12 souls that walked the earth of this generation.
Holly Skolkin could often be found at the supermarket shopping for Aishel House residents.
Holly Harwood Skolkin passed away peacefully at home on February 10, 2012 surrounded by her family. Holly was born in Houston on June 22, 1952, to Doris Zellda and Earl Isadore Harwood. She had a happy childhood with sisters and best friends, Bonny and Cindi.
At the University of Texas, Holly was an active member in Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority where she made many lifelong friends. She became a skilled silhouette artist, cutting freehand facial profile likenesses of people from Houston to Disneyland.
Following graduation in 1974 with a degree in photojournalism, she began a distinguished career in medical photography. Holly worked in the Ophthalmology Department at the University of Texas-Houston, Baylor College of Medicine, and Emory University where she produced world class fluorescein angiograms and ophthalmic ultrasounds. She served on the National Board of The Society of Retinal Angiographers.
After the birth of her children, her professional career was subrogated to raising Dayna and Emory, the joys of her life. She shared with them her love of Judaism, ethnic foods, movies, and family vacations. She adored her many nieces and nephews.
Her guiding message, a variation on the Beatles lyric, was “in the end the love you make should be more than the love you take“.
She involved her family and friends in her many mitzvah projects, including The River and Aishel House, two organizations for which she was a founding board member. She treasured her extended family in Hadassah and at Congregation Beth Yeshurun.
Her spirituality and optimistic attitude helped her battle stage 4 breast cancer for nearly 15 years. She was a role model, companion, and confidante for numerous cancer patients and their loved ones. It was often a difficult journey, one that inspired the creation of the Rose Ribbon Foundation by sister, Cindi Harwood Rose, and brother-in-law, Dr. Franklin Rose, in her honor.
She was preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by her husband, Mark, children, Dayna and Emory, and sisters, Bonny Cotlar and husband David, Cindi Harwood Rose and husband Dr. Franklin Rose, and their children Erica Rose and Ben Harwood Rose.
The family is most grateful to her many caregivers over the years, including doctors Richard Theriault, Gerry Cypress, and Rush Lynch, as well as Elena Velasquez and her friends in the Nursing Department at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital.
Those who wish to make a memorial contribution are encouraged to support the Rose Ribbon Foundation inspired by her generous heart; soon to be re-named the Holly Rose Ribbon Foundation in her honor by making a donation here: www.roseribbon.org, or other charity of their choice.
Rest peacefully, our Holly Dolly, and know that we will miss you and the world is a better place because you were here.
To make a donation in Holly's honor please visit www.RoseRibbon.org
The world’s most noted silhouette artist, Cindi Harwood Rose, is known for her elegant work across the world. Most likely she is the most renown living silhouette artist, having been published in so many magazines and books.
Including, BBC TV’s Blue Peter, Vogue Mexico, Vanity Fair, People, American Profile Magazine, Country Living, The Beverly Hills Review, The New York Times, Texas Monthly, Art Review, The Miami Herald, The Houston Chronicle, The Pittsburgh Press, and over 80 talk shows internationally for her unmatched speed and accuracy.
C. Rose, a self-taught natural artist, began drawing commissioned portraits at 8, and hand-cutting profiles for Walt Disney at 16. Her genius work, has made her the fastest and most accurate silhouettest of this and last century, having done 600 silhouettes in a Disney Day, and 144 silhouettes in an hour, all freehand, without a sketch, all with a remarkable likeness, no two the same. Unlike other artists, her work is detailed, with fine cuts, which separates the unskilled silhouettest from the skilled. She can also do groupings, one face cut into another. For more information, view silhouettesbycindi.com, or Cindi Rose on You Tube, SilhouettesbyCindiFacebook.
C. Rose is also an American Hero for her work of Silhouettes for Survivors by American Profile Magazine. At events she can do a silhouette per minute, If need be, most other silhouette artist can only do 20 per hour, and often give everyone the same face. She is booked for weddings, gifting suites, celebrity birthday parties, fashion shows, and extraordinary boutiques, children’s stores, gift stores, and speaking engagements.
For more information and booking information please visit silhouettesbycindi.com or roseribbon.org.
Framed Silhouettes at Grace Garden’s US school held today with artist Cindi Harwood Rose!
2011
Framed Silhouettes for non-profit at Grace Garden’s US school held today
Framed Silhouettes for non-profit at Grace Garden’s US school held today with artist Cindi Harwood Rose.
Stop by 6313 Pathfinder in Austin to have a collectable heirloom created on the spot with only scissors,
Talent, and black paper, in less than 2 minutes per person. Hours are 12 to 4. Prices are $30 a person, and it is a tax donation to superb education.
Behind the Scenes of 002Houston Magazine photo shoot “Paper Scape” Video:
Watch the amazing video!
For more information about Cindi Rose and availability for your event, please visit http://silhouettesbycindi.com/
Carla Valencia Martinez, 002 Magazine editor, came up with a new-world idea…Have renowned silhouette portrait artist, Cindi Harwood Rose, cut out organic scenes of Houston’s art and city life, creating paperscapes, to let others into the intricate images that propel her hand-cut exact psychic silhouettes. Carla enlisted computer genius and photoshop artist Cody Bess and a fashion model to pose into Cindi’s paperscapes. Martinez asked for a Bistro scene, including couple and table cloth (just about 80 hours of hand-cuttings from life), a skating scene with skyline, the art museum with trees, and dimension (about 200 hours), a couple in the farmer’s market shopping (yes a few hundred hours of Cindi’s snippings), finalized with the Rothko Chapel-simpler, maybe 60 hours. So point being, Rose snipped incredible worlds, Carla decorated and painted a model to fit into C. Harwood Rose’s cut-art world, and Cody mingled it on the computer to life. -Origin Magazine
002 Magazine- PaperScapes
Silhouette artistry today is as modern as always. History made in the current hot scene.
In this landscape inspired by the city of Houston, Cindi Harwood Rose takes her silhouette cutting skills to another level creating the perfect backdrops from a day at the Rothko Chapel to ice skating at Discovery Green or picking up local fares at a farmer’s market- this Paperscape depicts a perfect day in the city. -002 Magazine
Artist: Cindi Rose
Photography by Cody Bess
Assisted by Ryan Booth
Styled by Carla Valencia de Martinez
Model Magen Ellis for Page. 713
Hair and Makeup by Nikki Bartlett for The Perfect Face
Video Footage by Ryan Booth
As with many projects, you start to brainstorm ideas, and let your imagination take the idea to usually unrealistic conclusions. As I met with the team from 002Houston Magazine about this project, the concept meeting started to become exactly this. But, with the incredible amount of talent 002 possesses, we were able to put a realistic stamp on every idea that I normally would have figured out a plan “B”. The artists that made this project go from concept to reality was Cindi Harwood Rose. Inspired by the city of Houston, Cindi took her skill of being a Silhouette artist to create the perfect foundation for the project. Once we were able to collaborate with Cindi, it seemed as if no idea should be put on the shelf.
-Cody Bess
Edgy Silhouette Scenes
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“We often interact with visions in our mind, and live in our own world. We are stars in our own fantasy. I took well known spots—art museums, and with the help of incredible photographer, Cody Bess—the best artwork was the final piece. We blended several visions, mine, Carla Valencia, brilliant editor of 002 Magazine, and hipster photo genius, Cody Bess. Hand-cut silhouette art is a fashionable phrase.” – C. Harwood Rose
Cindi Harwood Rose began cutting silhouettes when she was 16. The self-taught artist knew she would be good at the age-old tradition and to this day continues to create her silhouettes in the ancient French tradition with no sketches. She simply looks at her subject, pulls out her trusty scissors, her favorite French paper (which was discontinued years ago so she set out to snap up what remained) and within minutes creates a perfect silhouette. Her skill has not only paid her way through college, it’s raised money for various local nonprofits as well as put her in the company of countless influentials including Elvis, Liberace and Barbara Bush to name a few.
Today she donates the proceeds to various nonprofits as well as her own foundation, The Rose Ribbon. There are a handful of Silhouette artists remaining today and Cindi is not only proud of her work, but of her counterparts as well. The Houston landscape was created by another Silhouette artist Cindi greatly respects – Catherine Winkler Rayroud.
For more information about the art of Silhouette making or either artist, please visit their websites: www.silhouettesbycindi.com and www.catherinewinkler.com.
by Marti Attoun – American Profile
September 27, 2011
Eden Rockwell, 4, perches on a chair and stares straight ahead as artist Cindi Harwood Rose creates a silhouette of the child’s face with surgical scissors and a blank sheet of black paper.
Meet Cindi Rose in the August 2011 Issue of Pet Talk Magazine.
Pet Silhouettes
Pet Silhouettes
Talented and giving, Cindi is an accomplished artist, very active in charitable causes, a champion of the environment and nature and most that know her well aware of her amazing cooking abilities. Yes, she prepares unbelievable creations every day for her family’s meals.
One of the most notable aspects about Cindi is that she is a distinguished silhouette artist. She has been creating beautiful silhouettes since she was a young girl, all the way from Houston to Hollywood and Disney World. She has produced silhouettes for celebrities such as Elvis, Queen Elizabeth, Barbara Bush, Peter Fonda and others.
Always aware of those in need, Cindi creates Silhouettes For Survivors through the Rose Ribbon Foundation and she also creates pet silhouettes and donates a portion to Citizens For Animal Protection.
Silhouette Artist Cindi Rose creates hand-made Pet Pendants and Cuff-links as featured in Pet Talk Magazine. They are so lovely and accurate, keeping your favorite furry friend close with incredible details. Rose charges $150 per pendant, which includes a matted shipped silhouette of the pet, as well as the cufflinks or pendant.
The pictured necklace is of “Hampton”, Cindi’s “grand-dog”.
Wedding silhouettes necklaces
$100 of the donation goes to the pet charity of your choice, or the Rose Ribbon Foundation, should you want it to be a wedding pendant of you and spouse, or of your children. The pictured necklace is of “Hampton”, Cindi’s “grand-dog”.
For more information, please visit silhouettesbycindi.com.
[Written by cparker, HoustonPetTalk ]
The end-all is to have a silhouette artistry done of your precious pet by Cindi Harwood Rose. Cindi Rose, a pet lover, knows how the furry friends can not help themselves. So silhouettist Cindi does their silhouettes for you, and donates to your favorite pet charities. Her doggie silhouettes are all-hand-cut with Swiss style medical scissors, and she gets all the incredible details, including the markings.
Cindi Rose can paper profile horses, cats, birds, and of course, grown-ups, children, buildings, but the furry friends are just so loveable, and add classic humor to your home. She can turn this into a mug, pet pendant or cufflinks, as mentioned in the article below, or plates, and actually you can style a whole event with her artwork. I recently went to a Pet Event, and Cindi had pet mouse-pads to order, and your pet on a doggie bowl. With the art, the silhouette is included, in an archival mat, and the good news, is Rose donates the profits either to Cancer or a Pet Cause. See silhouettes for survivors through the or silhouettesbycindi.com
Cindi Harwood Rose
Writer and Blogger, Mathew Williams, describes the Rose Ribbon Foundation and the artist behind the silhouettes Cindi Harwood Rose in his latest article of Edge Life, featured in the Culture Map Column entitled, The Cindi Rose of Texas