Hi, I am Welles Tan, welcome to my blog. I had been a caricaturist for events and parties since 1990. Silhouette Cutting also called Portrait Silhouette Cutting,Profile Cutting or Shadow Cutting. It is an art that using scissors to cut out a shape of a person’s side profile using dark color paper. You can frame it like a photo, put on the desk as a decoration for memories. Within an hour, it should be about 40 - 50 cutting of A6 size to be produced, this is a professional artist's speed.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Silhouette with Half or Full Body
To produce a silhouette which more than a portrait was not easy an easy job, it involved some basic visual planning like how to cut the detail line of the silhouette to highlight the composition; it involved demanding accuracy of the figure’s proportionate scales.Usually I would not do such silhouette cutting during events entertaining booking due to need some times to produce it and I need to use at least A5 size paper to cut it out.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Interesting Deco
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Some food I ate recently
Friday, April 2, 2010
The Standard of Silhouette Art in Singapore
Silhouette art is about the side profile or shadow of a person, animal or objects.
In my research, experiences and my view, a standard portrait silhouette which in A5 size (about 210mm x 150mm) or A6 size (about 150mm x 105mm) should be produced within a minutes unless the side profile of the guest was really complex, hence, a real silhouette artist should be able to produce 35-50 pieces cutting within an hour during the event whether they are do it in a stationary way or roving way.
If any artist you that came across only able to produced less than 35 pieces silhouette cutting within an hour’s booking (for your majority normal hair style guests), that means he or she is an in experienced new comer.
I did came across few artist that only able to produce 7 pieces cutting within an hour’s booking, even thought they had been in the event line more than 4 years, unfortunately in my view they are cheating the public, they are cheating the event companies, they spoiling this name of the world classed country.
In my research, experiences and my view, a standard portrait silhouette which in A5 size (about 210mm x 150mm) or A6 size (about 150mm x 105mm) should be produced within a minutes unless the side profile of the guest was really complex, hence, a real silhouette artist should be able to produce 35-50 pieces cutting within an hour during the event whether they are do it in a stationary way or roving way.
If any artist you that came across only able to produced less than 35 pieces silhouette cutting within an hour’s booking (for your majority normal hair style guests), that means he or she is an in experienced new comer.
I did came across few artist that only able to produce 7 pieces cutting within an hour’s booking, even thought they had been in the event line more than 4 years, unfortunately in my view they are cheating the public, they are cheating the event companies, they spoiling this name of the world classed country.
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