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.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
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!
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
A side profile
Saturday, November 8, 2008
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.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
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!
Nice decoration at the foyer area!
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
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