Event at Chijmes Singapore

Chijmes was a nice place and the Chijmes Hall was one of the historical building in Singapore!Very nice interior of the building!Mr Lee Boon Chye was doing Chinese fan calligraphy in the event.One of the guests in cute costume!One of the guests’ in Trojan costume!
Another in special hats made by many fake fruits!Show time!

Sembawang Shipyard Pte Ltd’s Dinner and dance

I received a call at 5.45pm to look for a silhouette cutting artist urgently which have to start at 6.15pm at Orchid Country Club! This is not my first time having such urgent booking for event artist. So I quickly get my stuffs ready and rush down for a cap, luckily almost immediately get a cap and reach Orchid Country Club at 6.09pm!There was new and young caricaturist in the event!And wire crafts artist as well.

Silhouette Cutting at Trader Hotel Singapore

That was great to do silhouette cutting in the dinner and dance for IFF Annual Dinner and dance. In this event, almost all the guest was dressed I different costume; I like to do such event because usually you can see lots surprise dressed guests and they are usually in the high morale and happy mood, you will feel like you really join them in the event as well, haahaa!Beautiful guests sure will come to me! Heehee!

Caricature on Silhouette Cutting?

That should be fun to do Silhouette Cutting in caricature way which exaggerating the feature of the side profile.
Now the problem came:
1. to do a nice exaggerated profile, the guest must be having strong features, because in the details within a human face’s silhouette there are limited portions of the face can be play around, there are only: the neck, the jaws, the mouth, the nose, the forehead and the hair style. Not like caricature drawing, you can play around the color, the shadings and etc.

2. Not much people know their own side profile well, just a normal portrait silhouette of the guest, they usually need their friends to confirm the silhouette cutting whether looks like them or not; if you wanted to do an exaggerated silhouette, you have to ensure your guests having the artistic eyes and feels as yours.

Colorful Silhouette Cutting

I just tried out silhouette cutting in colorful paper, seems it looks good. To produce a nice looking color contrast, need to use a high quality paper else the quality will be bad; of course the higher quality of the paper the higher cost is necessary, haahaa!

Silhouette Cutting At Zoological Singapore and Singapore Flyer

Did silhouette cutting for McConnell’s Family Day at Zoological Singapore; although there was a worm day, but I was happily to meet the friendly and nice guests. Other thatn that, met some old friends in this event as well liken popcorn provider May, airbrush tattoo and face painting Sheila and her team.Look! This is the white tiger which in the news recently!Basically, due to school holiday, many companies will pick almost the same day to do their family day, hence certain Saturday or Sunday became hot day for entertainer’s booking, and meanwhile we might be booked 2 or more shows within such hot days.

Usually, year end like November and December was peak period for lots commercial promotion activities, hence we could be having 2 or more bookings during week end. As an entertainer, you have to be compromised that your week end burned; because we belonging to the servicing group in the society as well, haahaa!

I was luckily that having 2nd booking at Singapore Flyer!

United States of America: The Presidents (1897 - 1969)

Finally I completed all the 44 cuttings!

United States of America: The Presidents (1969 - 2009 & Latest)

Did another series of silhouette cutting.

United States of America Presidents’ Silhouette Cutting Series

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 other jobs. I planned to do it bit by bit to complete it.

United States of America: The Presidents (1789 - 1850)
United States of America: The Presidents (1850 - 1897)

Romantic Mood

Just try this cutting and put on the pink color fancy paper background, the effect looks quiet different from my normal silhouette cutting setting; I just trying to increase the artistic level of my silhouette art. Heehee!

A side profile

Came across today’s news paper with Japan’s elusive Crown Princess Masako’s side view photo, jus did this side profile out.

Bhutan Crowns The World's Youngest Monarch and The American New President

That was great to see the new and youngest 28 aged King of Bhutan, His Majesty Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck in the coronation ceremony. To me Bhutan is a very special country, wish one day I could be travel to this country.The coming new President of America, Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama had created a new history which is the first black men who became the president of United States. Wish he can made the world better and better. I would say, he is so lucky which having great wife Michelle Obama who giving him a great support.

Event at Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel Singapore

I was very happy to do silhouette cutting for Aspial’s dinner and dance at Copthorne Waterfront Hotel Singapore tonight. I met lots nice guests and beautiful girls! Heehee! Everybody was well dressed in the “Mafia Night’ Theme, mostly in black, sexy black!

Nice decoration at the foyer area!

Profile Cutting for Singapore National Eye center’s Dinner and Dance

Did and event at Regent Hotel, great to met Ivan & Lee Lee lee in the event! First time see them doing wire craft! Wow! Luminous wire craft! This is my first time seeing such wire craft in my life! Thought it only available by Ivan and Lee lee’s wire craft!!! Don’t play play!Pebble Calligraphy.My creative guests made use this table guide board to put the side profile for ‘group photos’! Very funny and cute! Can’t deny they were really creative! Haahaa!That is what I mean ‘reverse side’ silhouette cutting, which means the guest’s posing facing the opposite side of my scissors holding hands.My 'Japanese' guests!

Some Backstage Job

Like many event entertaining items, my silhouette cutting also need to do some ‘backstage’ jobs which need to trim the papers and the background paper and put it in to plastic bags before I do the show.

Some artists only put the background paper in the plastic bag after they did artworks during the event. There’s nothing wrong but it reducing the quantities you are going to produce within the booking hour, that could be one way to ‘kill the time’, but I think that not so professional.

Except the background paper was given by the event organizer which printed with their event logos last minutes when I reach the working place, otherwise I always prepare them by myself before I go to the events.

The paper for me to do the silhouette or side profile cutting, usually in 1/4 of A4 or roughly about our palm size, so do the background paper.Of course I also prepared some A5 size background and the cutting paper for those cutting in couples. .Some event organizers was requested did it in A5 size as well.For my silhouette cutting, whether is in palm size or the slightly bigger size like A5 size, always inclusive the cut-out piece which is the reverse side of the original artworks. I usually put is in reverse side of the plastic bag.

Not every type of cut-out of the silhouette can be use, like the couples design, due to it needed to cut through the paper, hence it will be throwing away.