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Kid's Day at Highlow Gift Shop

  • Highlow Gift Shop 2140 Artesia Boulevard Torrance, CA, 90504 United States (map)

Come by with the kids for a day of fun at Highlow Gift Shop!

We will have master silhouette artist, Karl Johnson, here doing portraits by appointment. Appointments are selling out quick! Make your appointment here

Enjoy kids treats and samples while you browse our new kids items.  

William's Lemonade Stand (run by my 11 year old step-son) will be popping up on the sidewalk.  100% of profits from lemonade sales will be donated to St. Jude's Children's Hospital as part of their nationwide Lemonade Stand Challenge.

Last but not least, kids can take home our new Highlow Gift Shop coloring sheet!  Color it at home and bring it back to us, and we will display it in our kids gallery all month long.

 
 

About Karl Johnson

Watch this video to learn more about Karl Johnson’s work

Considered America's premier silhouette artist, Karl Johnson has been practicing this extremely rare art form for most of his life.  Karl learned this unique skill as a young boy from his father who had been taught many years earlier by a long time friend of the family.

Karl took to this unusual art form extremely well.  Something he attributes, in part, to having vision in only one eye.  Karl was born being able to see only from his right eye.  Not having binocular vision forces Karl to judge the distance and shape of an object by examining its shadow.  This allows Karl to capture an image in shadow in an uncanny way.

Karl's work hangs in the homes of many Hollywood notables and has also been featured in numerous national publications such as People, InStyle, Martha Stewart Wedding, Elle Decor, Domino Magazine and more.  You can also see Karl's work on several tv shows & movies including the Black Swan movie starring Natalie Portman.  Karl works with many design firms to create specialty silhouette pieces for a variety of special clients all over the world.

Starting when he was only ten years old, Karl estimates that he has freehand cut hundreds of thousands of silhouette images so far in his career. Karl operates his studio and resides, with his wife Lauren, son Cooper, and daughter Tenney in Southern California.

 
 
Kids' Coloring Sheet of Highlow Gift Shop

Coloring Sheet Giveaway

Remember when you were a kid and the grocery store would hand out coloring sheets for you to take home and bring back, then they'd put it up on the wall?  I invite you to come pick up a coloring sheet for the kiddos and have them bring it back for it to be hung on the wall.   For the month of July we will display them in our Kid's Gallery. 

Plus they will get a treat when they deliver it for participating :)

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