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, January 17, 2009
MDIS Event
Did Silhouette Cutting for an event at Orchard Hotel Singapore. That was great to meet many nice and well educated guests. I was doing roving Silhouette Cutting in the event, I managed to handle it because it happened that there was a wedding dinner at the next ballroom and all the guests was came almost at the same time!
Monday, January 12, 2009
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.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Event at Singapore Polytechnic
Went Singapore Polytechnic for a silhouette cutting, met many great and nice people today.
Jonie Tan the wire craft artist in the event.Singapore best rainbow calligraphy artist Dorby Yip was in the event, I like his calligraphy because his calligraphy was unique and quality, hence so many local China fake rainbow artists trying their best to copy their style.All the beautiful ladies and hunk was came to me! Don't play play! Hia hia hia!Ouchi! Still having lots tough Chinese paper cutting to be preparing at home! That’s is an entertainer’s life, many backstage work have to be done. Haahaa!
Jonie Tan the wire craft artist in the event.Singapore best rainbow calligraphy artist Dorby Yip was in the event, I like his calligraphy because his calligraphy was unique and quality, hence so many local China fake rainbow artists trying their best to copy their style.All the beautiful ladies and hunk was came to me! Don't play play! Hia hia hia!Ouchi! Still having lots tough Chinese paper cutting to be preparing at home! That’s is an entertainer’s life, many backstage work have to be done. Haahaa!
Friday, January 2, 2009
Silhouette Cutting for New Year Eve
Completed a silhouette cutting service for a pre-event at Grand Corpthorne Waterfront Hotel Singapore for Temasek Club’s Dinner and Dance. That was great to do silhouette cutting in a roving method.
There did not have any secret from me, just see and cut. Hee hee!Ivan and Lee Lee’s stylo airbrush tattoo services also in the event!Beautiful nail art and hair spray artists!
There did not have any secret from me, just see and cut. Hee hee!Ivan and Lee Lee’s stylo airbrush tattoo services also in the event!Beautiful nail art and hair spray artists!
Friday, December 26, 2008
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!
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!
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Girl In Dragon Hat
The Side view or side profile of a girl wearing a hat in Chinese dragon shape
-
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 o...
-
It was cool to had a chance to do my silhouette cutting last month for an event in Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia which n...