Chinese Paper Cutting Chinese Mid Autumn Festival

Just did Chinese Paper Cutting Demo cum workshop to an event for Chinese Mid Autumn Festival. Many guests were very interesting to participate in this demo and workshop.

I just realized many people did not know how to use scissors, so I had tried my best to guide them.

Talking about Chinese Paper Cutting, the traditional way was to draw the design on the back of the red paper then do the related cutting.

Chinese Paper Cutting is actual belonging to one of the graphic design category in my view; one of the methods to produce it was using the template. We can just use the computer to design it and then print out the design and stable it on the red paper and do the cutting.

Wedding Event at 20.09.2009

Glad to complete a silhouette cutting booking for a wedding event at Raffles Hotel Singapore. To me it just a Sunday, but that was a surprise after watched the news report, today is 20th September 2009, which in numeric form is 20092009!

Hmm..based on such 'Auspicious Date', in future that will be 20.10.2010, 20.11.2011, 20.12.2012....life is very interesting!

Front View Silhouette Cutting

It had been many times that many people asked me why cant I do a front view silhouette cutting of their portrait, the reason is because in traditional silhouette cutting which very emphasized on the outline of the artwork was hardly tell that is the person’s portrait if they compare the art piece with the real person; because usually not much people having a strong features during the event unless they really make it a big different.

That was what I mean having strong feature front the front view ;p

Silhouette for Couples

Thought cutting 2 persons in one piece of paper is one of the difficult tasks; because you really need to handle the scoring of the portrait size very carefully else the artwork will not be nice eg. One head too big and one head too small, the aiming direction of both portraits in your artworks was different etc.The hair style and the related accessories of the guests, is one of the factor that affect the ‘design’ (which mean how you like to arrange them in you art piece) of the artworks.

Further Detail Cutting

The traditional silhouette cutting is mainly cut the shape of the portrait of the guest, I think if we cut more detail on it, which will be more belonging to paper art area.

Silhouette cutting can be seen it as sort of black and white graphic, but if we do it for performance purpose, professional speaking, we should do it within a minutes; hence within an hour’s event booking, we should be able to produce 35-45 pieces (including put in the plastic bag for the guests.

Down here, I just try to explore further cut in details for the silhouette art works.To do a silhouette for more detail, seems it need more time to decide what type of cutting you are going to do, I talking about just observe and cut in the further detail without and hand drawn steps; that seems need a lot of research, experiments and practices.How to do a silhouette cutting with more details in a shortest timing yet it still looks good, that is the challenge.

Silhouette Cutting for Boutique Product Launch

It was real cool that I have a chance to do my silhouette cutting for Max Mara’s event at ion Orchard tonight!The coolest thing was I have a chance to see the fashion show as well! I would say, the cloth worn by the models was really amazing nice! I like the designs very much!Just took some photos with some of my “colleagues”! Heehee!

Paper Art

Just a red paper cutting for today.