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.
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Mona Lisa's Side Profile
Produced this artwork based on my years experiences of portrait studies.
It was very difficult to produce a silhouette based on front view of the photo or painting unless the detail was very clear: the clear portrait, the lighting and etc. the provide many details that I can trace and retrieve my experiences database to match the shapes of the portrait silhouette during the cutting process.
Event at Chui Huay Lim Club
Great that having a chance to do my portrait silhouette cutting at Chui Huay Lim Club yesterday!
That was nice to meet nice guests in this Chinese New Year theme event.
Saturday, November 4, 2023
Swimsuit Cutting
Yellow Bikini
Baywatch swimsuit
It was a new trial, so it really spent up to 4 hours to obtain the result I wanted.
Sunday, October 8, 2023
Monday, September 25, 2023
Silhouette Cutting for Christian Dior Event
I feel blessed that had a chance to do my silhouette cutting fringes activity for Christian Dior's ION Singapore last month ;p
That was really a great experiences to do my art in the outlet
and met many nice peoples during this event.
Friday, June 23, 2023
Animals' Side Profile cutting
Did animals profile cutting
A Rooster: Not as easy I thought for this 2 colors side profile cutting. I had did many times tries and finally got what I want.
Monday, June 19, 2023
Sunday, June 18, 2023
Friday, June 16, 2023
Safety First!
Did a man in safety helmet. the process can be view at me youtube channel here
Another lady in pink hat, can be view at my Instagram here
Saturday, June 3, 2023
Friday, June 2, 2023
Two-tone hairstyle
Did this two-tone hairstyle side profile after many times try.
Art is tough, you got to work very hard to get the quality artwork done.
Friday, May 26, 2023
Roving Silhouette Cutting for a Dinner and Dance
Did roving silhouette cutting for and event at Safra Toa Payoh tonight and glad to met many nice guests during the event.
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
A lady in her Punk
I created a vibrant side profile using six pieces of colored paper. It was an intriguing experience to produce this artwork, as it marked my first foray into exploring this particular style of art.
Saturday, May 20, 2023
Sexy Lips
After numerous attempts, I finally achieved a captivating frontal view of the lips through precise cutting. Handling the three colors in this cutting was a challenging process that demanded multiple experimental approaches.
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
A Red color Platform Heel
Did these platform heels cutting using 2 pieces of different color combinations.
There some difficulties when doing 2 or more than 2 pieces of cutting
because of the paper will run or drop off during the process.
The colors' combination also another point need to think more.
The cutting process can be view in my youtube channel
Friday, May 5, 2023
3 Colors Silhouette Cutting!
To produce a new art piece is a tough process! I had been tried many many times and finally got this artwork produced! phew!
I use 3 pieces of color paper stack together and do the cutting.
The cutting process can be viewed here.
Monday, May 1, 2023
Two color profile cutting
After many tries, I managed to produce a 2 colors profile cutting.
to view the process of my cutting, you can click here in my youtube channel.
Sunday, April 23, 2023
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There was someone asked me to do a series of silhouette cutting of American Presidents last month, but I can’t make it due to busy on some o...
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It was cool to had a chance to do my silhouette cutting last month for an event in Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia which n...