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, June 18, 2010
Event at The Fullerton Bay Hotel
Did silhouette cutting at The Fullerton Bay Hotel and great to met Calligrapher Dorby Yip in the event.Maya Nova was doing her performance!Photo with event organisers.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Event at Marina Bay Sand Ballroom
This is my very first time doing my silhouette cutting in this newest building - Marina Bay Sand.According one of the staff claimed they are having the biggest ballroom/convention hall in South East Asia! That means if they openned all the partition of the convention hall, the space was allowed 8000 guests step in the related event! Whoa!As a roving artist, our job is to entertain the guests; so we must know when the guests was arriving that "filled up" the space of the ballroom, hence we have to choose the right time and the right crowd to start our roving job.Andy was doing balloon twisting in the event.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Private Event In National Musuem Singapore
Did a roving silhouette cutting for a private networking event under event company's arrangement.
Met Mr Yong from Yong Gallery doing his calligraphy in the event and he was doing calligraphy on Chinese fan.
There are some strings live music performance during the event.
Met Mr Yong from Yong Gallery doing his calligraphy in the event and he was doing calligraphy on Chinese fan.
There are some strings live music performance during the event.
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.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Company Event
Friday, February 26, 2010
Nice Japanese Food!
After doing Chinese paper cutting and meet Master Chuan doing his palm reading in the event, we had went to have our lunch together and had been treated by him! Hiak hiak!
He had recommenced this Japanese restaurant at The Central Mall Singapore, which is called "Ramen Santouka" that crowded with Japanese food lovers.Great Salad!I super like this pork dish! I like the softness of the pork and the taste that cooked by them!Nice Ramen!
He had recommenced this Japanese restaurant at The Central Mall Singapore, which is called "Ramen Santouka" that crowded with Japanese food lovers.Great Salad!I super like this pork dish! I like the softness of the pork and the taste that cooked by them!Nice Ramen!
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Chinese Paper Cutting
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Open House of Singapore Art Museum
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Product Launch Event
That was cool that I have a chance doing the product launch today at Plaza Singapura.The scissors prepared by the organiser for V.I.P. to cut the opening ribbons.As a silhouette artist, always attracted by and special scissors they came across ;pI always like to do a show the having fashion show within the event.The coolest thing was I am using client’s product which is the wallpaper made by special material to do the silhouette cutting for the guests.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
EDvent at Fullerton Hotel Singapore
Ah ha! great to have a chance to do silhouette cutting for The Fullerton Hotel Singapore's event to night! This is my first silhouette cutting event booking in 2010.Terrance and his artist was doing shrink art caricature key chain in the event.My favourite 'Nasi Lemak' in Golden Shoe food court.The new IR in its about 90% completion -- new casino in Singapre which can be vied from outside of the hotel.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Dinner & Dance at Swissotel Merchant Court
Monday, November 30, 2009
Watson's Member Event
It was grerat that I got a chance to do silhouette cutting for Watson Member's event inn Velvet Room Underground at Zouk. I had met many friendly and beautiful guests in the night! Whoa!
Clarissa Seet was the host of the night (hope I spelled her name correctly)These singers group can sing real excellent without any music instruments but made you feel you are really heard them singing with a live band! What I means the music paying by the music instruments was really created by their mouths! That was really amazing!Very beautiful an very sexy nail art artists!
Clarissa Seet was the host of the night (hope I spelled her name correctly)These singers group can sing real excellent without any music instruments but made you feel you are really heard them singing with a live band! What I means the music paying by the music instruments was really created by their mouths! That was really amazing!Very beautiful an very sexy nail art artists!
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