Chinese Paper Cutting

I was so lucky that I got a chance to do Chinese Paper Cutting for Media Corp event at Four Season Hotel 23 Feb 2010.Met Rainbowm Calligrapher Mr Lim in the event.Master Chuan was doing Palm reading for the guests.Super cool to see my artworks in Media Corp logo background ;p

Chinese Paper Cutting Demo

Just did Chinese Paper Cutting Demo cum quick paper cutting trial workshop foe the public during the event last weekend.There were many performances during this event, including Latin dance, Malay cultural singing performance, Filipino martial arts and etc.

That was quite fun to guide the public to do the Chinese paper cutting, many of them was felt paper cutting art was very interesting and they realised this folk art it looks simple but need some skill to do it.Some participants’ work.My ‘Silhouette Chinese Paper Cutting’Chinese world famous ‘Si Chuan Face/Mask Changing’ art was the climate of the show, ecveryone love it! Because this famous performance having a charming mystery secret about the mask changing method during the performance within less than a second, everone like to know how the mask changing master did it.

Paper Cutting

Just saw this photo from today’s newspaper, did a silhouette for it.The masked navy officer is very hard to see in our usual life, it is quiet unique to me, just a silhouette for it.After totally 5 hours which split into 2 weeks, finally I completer this “Million Dollars” Chinese wording paper cutting in 4pcs stacked of 120gsm gold paper. I don’t think will do this design for event, just for my own art pieces purpose, because it really difficult to use hand cut and real time consuming. Heehee!

Chinese New Year Event

Did Chinese Paper Cutting for a Chinese New Year Event.
That was great to meet Calligrapher Dorby Yip (http://www.yipsrainbow.8m.com) in the event.

Chinese Paper Cutting

Engaged by an event company doing Chinese Paper Cutting in a shopping Centre.May Toh was doing Chinese Dough Figurine demo in the event; that was very happy that met friends that I know in the event.“Tin tin candy” making; is one of the common Chinese tidbits other than ‘Dragon Bead Candy’ etc.Did some ‘silhouette cutting + Chinese Paper Cutting’ for the guests.

Chinese Paper Cutting

Time flies as arrow, after 25th Dec Christmas Day, I believe many shopping centre and the related media and the related mass communication parties will be rushing to change the decorations and related stuffs into Chinese New Year theme.

Due so some Chinese New year theme booking, other than fortune telling I was busying preparing the traditional Chinese Paper Cutting for the Chinese New Year events.

Chinese Paper Cutting is an unique art during Chinese new year just like the Chinese calligraphy, lion dance and etc to represent the happiness and prosperities and lucks of the coming new years.

As what we know, to produce a Chinese paper cut, after drafted out the design, it should be purely only using scissors top cut it out, but in my experiences and researches, most of the detail portion of the cutting should be produced by the cutting instead of using scissors; especially those small pieces of paper cutting. Because those tiny portions were not possible to provide enough spaced for the scissors itself to poke in the paper to cut it out!
Of course, that should be some expert in China still can be purely using scissors to produce the traditional Chinese paper cutting.

If you take a look of the Chinese paper cutting whose selling in the shop or exhibition, you will realized that almost all of them was produced in a 100% perfect cut, please look carefully, such 100% perfect cutting Chinese paper cutting was produced by machine!

Chinese Paper Cutting

This is what I mentioned about! It definite traditional art from china.
I spent 6hours to cut this!, You must really having lots time, otherwise cant't do it men.

Exhausted after cutting thei artwork. Hee Hee!