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 16, 2009
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 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.
Friday, September 11, 2009
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!
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Sunday, August 30, 2009
E.Z’s Art
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Event at Orchid Country Club
Did silhouette cutting to night at Orchid Country Club and great to met Ivan and Lee Lee doing their wire art in the event.My guests ;pThe singer is singing Elvis Presley’s song in the event.Always treat nice foods by Ivan and Lee Lee after the event. Hee hee!
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Roving Silhouette Cutting
That was cool to do an event at NUSS Guild House to night! I can’t remember how long I did not doing any show in NUS (National University Singapore), but I like to do show in university or polytechnic, it made me feel young and happy because usually most of the guests I entertaining was young and friendly or appreciate or respect my works ;p
My beautiful, sexy, elegant and handsome guests!
My beautiful, sexy, elegant and handsome guests!
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Wedding Event
Did silhouette cutting for a wedding dinner at Good wood Park Hotel. For silhouette cutting in wedding, I only do two persons in one piece cutting for the bridal and broom, because it need an accurate visual scoring to produce a nice artwork, hence it need slightly long time to produce it.Thought I will do more silhouette cutting for couples in future events.A night scene of ion Orchard while I passing by it.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
The Cutting Size of My Silhouette Cutting
I usually prepared the black paper in A6 size (a quarter of A4 size about 15cm long, close to 3R photo size), and I will put the artworks in a same size light yellow based background paper in a clear plastic bag to put in my artworks.
I set my artwork in this size is because that was easily for the guest to put in their pocket. Such size is also about a size of our palm; when you hold the artworks on your palm, you are able to view the impact of the artworks.
To make my artwork able to give such feel, I always try to made use of the full area of the paper, thought this could be one of the way to show your scoring skill and how good you can control your hand to produce what you see, especially we are doing a show in the events to catch crowd.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.
I set my artwork in this size is because that was easily for the guest to put in their pocket. Such size is also about a size of our palm; when you hold the artworks on your palm, you are able to view the impact of the artworks.
To make my artwork able to give such feel, I always try to made use of the full area of the paper, thought this could be one of the way to show your scoring skill and how good you can control your hand to produce what you see, especially we are doing a show in the events to catch crowd.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.
Framing of the Silhouette Cutting
Sunday, August 9, 2009
My Hands!
Friday, August 7, 2009
Silhouette Cutting in Swissotel Merchant Court
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Chinese Paper Cutting Demo
Just did Chinese Paper Cutting Demo cum quick paper cutting trial workshop foe the public during the event last weekend.There were many performances during this event, including Latin dance, Malay cultural singing performance, Filipino martial arts and etc.
That was quite fun to guide the public to do the Chinese paper cutting, many of them was felt paper cutting art was very interesting and they realised this folk art it looks simple but need some skill to do it.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.
That was quite fun to guide the public to do the Chinese paper cutting, many of them was felt paper cutting art was very interesting and they realised this folk art it looks simple but need some skill to do it.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.
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