After 10 years doing silhouette cutting, I found that, doing silhouette cutting is like doing stage performance, but this stage are really small just withing 1 meter - 2 meters area that surrounding you.Why I say like that? Look, since we had surrounding by the crowd, then we have to do our best. Do you realized the attractive of this art was we can just cut out a guest's side profile without drawing and everyone was was keen to know why we can do it without pre-draw the guest's side profile but just cut out a very look alike portrait silhouette, technically, skill involved actually.
Since such interest curiousness from the crowd, as a silhouette artist, in my view, we should make it as a performance to increase the entertaining level while we at work, just like a magician, like a dancer, like a singer that impress our guests.
"I am not the best, but I always try my best", this is my concept while I at work, it always help my maintain my artistic level and quality of my work in certain standard.
We should always in the right mood, enthusiastic attitude and right (or high) morale while we at work, hence we sure can produce nice and professional artworks.
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.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Silhouette Cutting for Private Event
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Just A Day
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Event at Bangkok
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
The Quantity of Silhouette Cutting within an Hour's Event booking
As a professional Silhouette Cutting, I would say, in an hour's booking we can be produce average about 40 pieces of silhouettes which as large as our palm size.
Basically, a standard palm size portrait silhouette can produce within a minutes, meanwhile, exclude the time taken for us to put the artwork in plastic bag and the time spend in guiding the guest to pose correctly.
I don's see any reason for a silhouette artist require more than a minutes to produce a standard palm size non complex shape portrait silhouette.
Those who produce less than 30 pieces silhouette in an hour's event booking, they either apprentice or they are taking it for granted to do it slowly to kill the booking time and try to earn easy money.
Singapore is a branded world class great country, hence, as a professional, we should always maintain our high standard for our artwork, both quality and quantity.
How long do you need to produce a cutting in this shape, which in a mobile phone size?
Basically, a standard palm size portrait silhouette can produce within a minutes, meanwhile, exclude the time taken for us to put the artwork in plastic bag and the time spend in guiding the guest to pose correctly.
I don's see any reason for a silhouette artist require more than a minutes to produce a standard palm size non complex shape portrait silhouette.
Those who produce less than 30 pieces silhouette in an hour's event booking, they either apprentice or they are taking it for granted to do it slowly to kill the booking time and try to earn easy money.
Singapore is a branded world class great country, hence, as a professional, we should always maintain our high standard for our artwork, both quality and quantity.
How long do you need to produce a cutting in this shape, which in a mobile phone size?
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Silhouette Cutting at Night Festival 2010
That was great to do silhouette cutting with William at Peranakan Museum last week. Wh had use colorful paper to do the cutting in this event.Katherine was doing her bodyart in this event as well!This Malay band group was real talented, everyone love theit performance.I like the malay song "Rasa Sayang" and "Burung Kaka Tus" very much, because they sang it in a very stylo and different way! Thougt they had attracted lots tourists as well!Met a lot of beautiful and stylo visitors in the event.One of the activities -- Graffiti painting.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Silhouette Cutting at Pasir Ris Park
Did an event yesterday and met many entertainer friends I know! Yeah!
The event i did was a Taiwanese group's family day, hence i met many Taiwanese guests. That was great to work on this event because all the guests was very nice and friendly.
One of my very beautiful guest! She got beautiful hair as well, and her hair look like the Taiwanese computer games beauty! Heehee!Iron Will's "Escape Show" was super cool!Jeremy Tan was performing in the event!Look! What I holding? Hiak Hiak!Chuan having a booth in this event as well.Did a silhouette cutting for Iron Will! heehee!
The event i did was a Taiwanese group's family day, hence i met many Taiwanese guests. That was great to work on this event because all the guests was very nice and friendly.
One of my very beautiful guest! She got beautiful hair as well, and her hair look like the Taiwanese computer games beauty! Heehee!Iron Will's "Escape Show" was super cool!Jeremy Tan was performing in the event!Look! What I holding? Hiak Hiak!Chuan having a booth in this event as well.Did a silhouette cutting for Iron Will! heehee!
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