
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.
Expect special case like client asked my to produce a smaller size for their own framing size purpose, else I do not do it in such small size by using the A6 size paper, because it will looks ugly once you put it in the plastic bag with an A6 size background.
Art is nothing right or wrong, but in my view, doing silhouette cutting in an entertaining purpose, the art piece size should be in certain visually comfortable size, else that will be too weak for such presentation.
There were many performances during this event, including Latin dance, Malay cultural singing performance, Filipino martial arts and etc.
Some participants’ work.
My ‘Silhouette Chinese Paper Cutting’
Chinese world famous ‘Si Chuan Face/Mask Changing’ art was the climate of the show, ecveryone love it! Because this famous performance having a charming mystery secret about the mask changing method during the performance within less than a second, everone like to know how the mask changing master did it.