Chinese Paper Cutting for CNY Lo Hei Event

Did Chinese Paper cutting demo and give away for a private event and great to meet Chinese Calligrapher Mr Goh during the event.

There are lion dance, Wealth God mascot, Chinese music instrument performance and Chinese dance in the event.

The food handler was preparing "Lo Hei" dishes.

Mr Goh at work ;p

Chinese New Year Fringe Activities

Did Chinese paper cutting demo at Jurong Bird Park recently

and great to met my old friend Jason Goh doing his Dragon Beard candy in the event as well! Jason Goh is a real Dragon Beard Candy master, not those fake Dragon Beard candy master you seen in some events.

Although we know each others many years, but this is the first time i really got chance to see the process he make the real Dragon Beard Candy!

According Jason, the Dragon Beard Candy made by honey with related recipe, there are 2 types of recipe: one for indoor, one for outdoor, thought those fake master I came across in many events,totally don't know all this!

The color of the end product must be white color, the Dragon Beard Candy must be hard instead of soft, the skin of the candy, which looks like beard, and must be real fine!

This is the work by Master Jason Goh ;p

This and another Chinese New Year fringe activity that  came across: Chinese Knot demo and give away, done another old friend Katherine Mah.

and Angbao lantern making done by her as well ;p

Chinese paper Cutting for SCO CNY Event

Did Chinese paper cutting for SCO Singapore private event at The Star Vista recently.

Met Chinese Calligrapher Mr Goh Ek Meng in the event. The was interesting that both of us using red paper for our art but the red paper we used is totally different type ;p

Chinese Papaer Cutting for Mid Autunm Festival Event

Did Chinese paper demo and give away during Mid Autumn Festival at Bukit Timah Plaza last month.

There are balloon twisting given away and Chinese dough figurine artist in the event as well.

Famous Getai Singer Lee Pei Fen was mcee in the event and she performing on the stage as well.

Chinese Paper Cutting for Chinese New Year Event

Did Chinese paper cutting demo for an event at Suntec City Convention Hall last week and great to meet nice guests in the event.

Thought not much people in the market do Chinese paper cutting in the event industry so far, in my view, this is because it was an item that look very easy to do yet took real long hours to produce.

For my Chinese paper cutting demo for event, usually I will do simple cutting demo during the booking hour, and within and hour's booking, about 120pcs pre made artworks to be given away to the guests.

For such quantity of pre made artworks, required about 40 working hours to produce and need to be done in many different days due to my hand strenght.

Each cutting required about 20 minutes or more to be completed, so I unable to take any order to produced what the guest want on the spot, just imaging you hire my service for an hour and I only able to produce 2 pcs artworks on the spot for your event! No client wanted to see such thing happened.

Anyway, it was and fringe activity that suit for Chinese New Year and cultural event.

Chinese paper Cutting Preparation

I was really busy to struggling prepare Chinese paper cutting production during this Chinese New Year period.

 

Most of the time like rushing out to but the Chinese red paper and do the paper trimming in to size to prepare the paper set as per my template and to had cut them to meet the deadline.

Some artworks have to manually put in gold paint piece by piece.
I would say, art is tough career, but can't be help, I am an artist, I have to take it ;p

Chinese Paper Cutting Preparation

After the peak period for dinner and dance in December, is time to prepare my Chinese new year theme item, which is Chinese Paper Cutting.

I remember in about 15 years ago, the artist who hired in the event, they just need to do some simple demo,the main resemblance of Chinese Paper Cutting just from the pre made artwork displayed from the artists. The most art piece to be giving away just limited to 1 or 2 pieces within the whole duration of the event booking. That was big different compared with nowadays, every items of event booking we must prepare certain amounts to be giving away during the event booking hour.

I would say, for event wise, only few people doing Chinese Paper Cutting in Singapore, because this item was really tedious and too time consuming to be produced, it just a seasonal art that having limited life time.

Ops!

Accidentally pour my drink on the table, and my some of my Chinese paper cutting artworks gone! Ouch! few hours' effort gone ;(

Mid Autumn Chinese Paper Cutting

Just taken few hours to do research and spend few hours again to reproduce a Chinese paper cutting design that suits for the Mid Autumn Festival Theme.
The flower design was from clip art and the text and overall design and layout out was was by my own idea.

I spent about 4 hours to cut this 5 pieces stack of red paper artwork. The reason to stack 5 pieces paper to cut out the artwork because it able to produce 5 pieces art pieces at a time. The reason for 5pieces stacked of paper to be cut at a time is because based on normal human's hand strength, it was the reasonable thickness of the papers to be cut at a time by human hand.

Chinese Paper is a time consuming item. Hence, for fringe events activity wise, it was hard to produce on the spot like caricature drawing or silhouette cutting and etc.
I think Chinese paper cutting was one of the tough item for fringe activity, because it need really long hours to do the preparation if you demand on the quality.

Event for Chinese Dumpling Festival

Did Chinese Paper Cutting demo for a Chinese Dumpling Festival for RC event last month.

One of the fringe activity was dumpling making, some resident was joining the dumpling making and enjoying this session.

There are calligrapher writing the name for the resident.

The Kung Fu Tea performance was attracted many audiences, the master was real skillful ;p

Edwin Tan was emceeing for this event.

Event at Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall Singapore

Did Chinese paper cutting at Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall Singapore last week for Chinese New Year's special event.This is my very first time visiting here, that was very interesting to being the memorial hall for China's famous people, Mr Sun Yat Sen.Met Diana doing her Chinese calligraphy ion this event.

Event at Illuma

Did Chinese Paper Cutting for Tuas Power Event.Met my event Kakis (bodies) in this event, that's real great!
Chuan was doing his fortune telling. Poor thing for him, many guests queuing for his reading, see the signboard behind him : "No Resting" told the story! Heehee!Just mentioned about rainbow calligrapher Mr Lim (or Mr Lam) and met him in the event next day! He got new image now! Haahaa!Another Kaki: Dragon Beard Master: Jason Yeo (See: http://www.talentsdata.8m.com/dongbeidragonbeard.htm).Wendy and her husband was doing Dough Figurine.(See: http://talentsdata.8m.com/wendylim.htm)Cyril was the Emcee in this event! Big show, will see him! One of the best Emcee I met often ;p A customised backdrop for the guests to take photos.

Chinese Paper Cutting Preparation

As per next year's Chinese New Year is coming earlier at 22nd January Sunday as Chinese New Year Eve, there were some event companies start to inquiry some related fringe arts activities, including my Chinese paper cutting. Seems I have to work harder to prepare the time consuming Chinese paper pre-cut zodiac and related designs.Due to usually Chinese new year fall on 2nd-14th Feb, year of 2012's Chinese new year came quite early, hence there are shorter time for event companies to arrange Chinese New Year's activities, therefore many event management was asking related stuffs start from this month.

Tough Job for Chinese Paper Cutting

Finally completed a tough artwork for Chinese Mid Autumn Festival. It took me about 3 hours to complete this 5pcs stacked cutting for this design.It take quite some times to produce the design as well. Because it required relevant research and design what should be give and take while come to produce this cutting be hand cutting. Ouchii ;p

Chinese Paper Cutting for Mid Autumn Festival

Completed a Chinese Paper Cutting for Mid Autumn Festival, I had spend 2 hours to complete this design, ouchi ;p

Sure Win!

Ate a "Pau"(包)for my breakfast today and I just got an idea: put a Chinese word "嬴“ means 'Win' on the Pau, that will mean "Sure Win"! Heehee! Because one of the meaning of these Chinese word "包" also mean "Sure", so such combination became "Sure Win"! Hiak hiak!

Took 2 hours to draw the design and took 1 hour to to the cutting! Ouchiiiii!

My "Sure Win Meal" of today! hiak hiak!