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.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
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!
Thursday, October 30, 2008
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.
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.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Silhouette Cutting for Media Corp’s Dinner and Dance
Friday, October 17, 2008
Silhouette Cutting at Orchard Hotel
Completed silhouette cutting booking for pre-event at Orchard Hotel; the client was Asia Electronic Technology’s Dinner and dance. That was great that the guests was very nice and some of the guess was recognized me as caricaturist in one of their events.Zaki, one of my caricaturist friends was doing caricature in the event, there was a tarot card reader there as well.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Silhouette Cutting at Ritz Carlton Hotel Singapore
Did Silhouette Cutting for 'TCC Limited’s Dinner & Dance. This a mingling/ roaming around job. As a mingling artist, you need to mingling around the crowd to entertain the guests, but most of the time, the guests was quickly form a queue by themselves yet I not really able to mingling too much, haahaaa!
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Profile Cutting for Anna Sui!
Monday, September 22, 2008
Birthday Party Booking
Did an event for a birthday party booking, and found their birthday cake was very special, because some of the candles was actually are ‘mini fireworks’!I got chance to eat this cute ‘firework’ chochalate cake!Another birthday cake I other event I came across which I thing was interesting, which they duplicate the birthday girl's painting on her birthday cake.
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