Holding an acorn up to its mouth, this black squirrel silhouette stands on its hind legs while its tail curls into a high spiral behind it. The free squirrel PNG is a high resolution graphic with a transparent background, so you can place it as clipart on printed invitations, cards, labels and other autumn projects.
I kept this version in solid black, because a silhouette speaks most clearly when only its outline and its light gaps tell the story. The fur is drawn as pointed, flame-like strips, and every one of those strips is an empty, transparent area of the image. That detail is the part I enjoy most when I place the squirrel on a colored page. On pumpkin orange paper, for example, each strip takes the orange of the page, and the coat looks as if late afternoon light is shining through it. On a deep green background, the same squirrel suddenly belongs to a forest. Because of this, the color you choose behind the graphic becomes the second color of the design.
The transparency covers the background around the squirrel as well as every opening inside it, including the eye, the ear, the toes and the zigzag pattern on the acorn cap. Therefore, when you drop the PNG onto a photo, a patterned paper or a colored layout, nothing white is left around the animal or between its fur strips. The squirrel sits directly on your design, and you do not need to cut it out or erase a background first.
A High Resolution Squirrel Graphic for Print and Layout
The image measures 8336 × 10000 pixels. At 300 pixels per inch, which is a common resolution for sharp printing, that size covers about 70 × 85 cm. In practice, this means a squirrel printed on a letter or A4 sheet uses only part of the available pixels, so the thin whiskers and the small curls of the fingers stay crisp. The same file can also fill a large poster for a child’s room or an autumn display board at home.
Since the squirrel is a single color on transparent pixels, an image editor can recolor it in one step. You can turn the black into a warm brown for a harvest look, or into a soft gray for a quieter woodland theme, and the openings remain clear after the change.
There are many small autumn projects where this squirrel clipart fits naturally. It can stand in the corner of a fall party invitation, with the acorn pointing toward the date and the address. It can decorate the labels on jars of homemade nut butter or roasted chestnuts that you give to friends. In a classroom, a teacher can place it on an autumn worksheet or a bulletin board about woodland animals preparing for winter. For a child’s T-shirt, print the squirrel on iron-on transfer paper, trim around the silhouette, and then press it onto a light cotton shirt following the instructions of the transfer paper.
Download the Free Squirrel Silhouette PNG Graphic in High Resolution
The download contains one PNG image of the complete squirrel silhouette.
- Format: PNG
- Image size: 8336 × 10000 pixels
- Color: black squirrel silhouette
- Background: transparent, including all openings inside the fur, face and acorn
Download the squirrel PNG and drag it into your design program, word processor or print layout. Then choose the background color that will show through the fur, scale the squirrel to fit your page, and print a test sheet on plain paper before using your good cardstock.
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