Silhouette Artist
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Hi, I am Welles Tan. I had been a caricaturist for events and parties since 1990. Shadow cutting, also called Silhouette Cutting, Portrait Silhouette Cutting, or Profile Cutting. It is an art that using scissors to cut out a shape of a person’s side profile using dark color paper. Usually people will frame it like a photo, put on the desk as a decoration for memories.
Silhouette Artist
2M ago
The Side view or side profile of a girl wearing a hat in Chinese dragon shape ..read more
Silhouette Artist
2M ago
Produced this artwork based on my years experiences of portrait studies.
It was very difficult to produce a silhouette based on front view of the photo or painting unless the detail was very clear: the clear portrait, the lighting and etc. the provide many details that I can trace and retrieve my experiences database to match the shapes of the portrait silhouette during the cutting process.
I spent an hour to try and error to get the best result of this artwork to be done ..read more
Silhouette Artist
2M ago
Great that having a chance to do my portrait silhouette cutting at Chui Huay Lim Club yesterday!
That was nice to meet nice guests in this Chinese New Year theme event.
my sample artwork
One of my artwork pasted on the card provided by client
One of client's event poster ..read more
Silhouette Artist
5M ago
Did 2 swimsuits silhouette cutting:
Yellow Bikini
Baywatch swimsuit
Both of the cutting were using 2 pieces of yellow and red color paper.
It was a new trial, so it really spent up to 4 hours to obtain the result I wanted.  ..read more
Silhouette Artist
6M ago
Did this silhouette cutting in story telling form, it can be viewed at my youtube channel here ..read more
Silhouette Artist
7M ago
I feel blessed that had a chance to do my silhouette cutting fringes activity for Christian Dior's ION Singapore last month ;p
That was really a great experiences to do my art in the outlet
and met many nice peoples during this event.
Some of my works as below ..read more
Silhouette Artist
10M ago
Did animals profile cutting
A Rooster: Not as easy I thought for this 2 colors side profile cutting. I had did many times tries and finally got what I want.
Side profile of a dog: Miniature Schnauzer ..read more
Silhouette Artist
10M ago
Did a man in safety helmet. the process can be view at me youtube channel here
Another lady in pink hat, can be view at my Instagram here ..read more