Palm Reading for a company family day

Did palm reading last week for a company's family day, great to meet many nice guests in the event.

Just Some Artwork

Just some drawing I did in recent event ;p

Palm and Face Reading for Private Event

Did fortune telling for a private event last week and great to met nice guests in the event.

Doing palm reading and/or face reading for event, usually I would tell the character of the guests, strong and weak point of the guests. I wile make my reading on the relaxing way and give positive advice for the guests.

As a professional, especially during event fringe activities, we suppose to talk mostly the good things for each guests, and each reading will be make it short and sharp based on the crowd.

In the past few months, I realised some fortune teller did tried his/her own sweet time to do the reading regardless the long queue, some of them tried their best to tout customer to contact them for a private session in their shop, that was not nice, and the worst, some fortune teller did talk the bad things directly to the guests, that was really not professional, because all the guests come to the event to enjoy and having fun; we should not let the guests feel uncomfortable during the reading session, because some guests really take it seriously, hence I never like to tell any bad thing during the fringe activities session.

Moreover, palm and face reading might have 70% accuracy, the more accurate reading should be combine with birth date life chart sort of reading, and it really unable to do it in a short timing.

Great to met old friends in the event!

Great to met Raju in this event. He is doing Teh Tarik and supply Kacang Putih for the fringe activity. I had lost contact with him and finally met him again in this event.

Raju doing Parot fortune card reading for event as well ;p

Event at S-One Expo Stuttgart

Did event at S-One Expo Stuttgart, a Germany trade and cultural in Singapore. That was interesting to view the organic vegetables demo and selling in the event, some of the vegetables was seen in my first time, that was really interesting.

Event Live Caricaturist

Can a caricaturist who do live drawing for events during dinner and dance, family days, production launch events and etc able to making big money? In my past years experiences till today, the answers is no; I repeat again: not every day every month having events that need caricaturist.

If you really thinking making lots money by doing fringe activities through event's booking, then you probably have to do like this new immigrant family from China, they really charge low rate and do all kinds of fringe items that demand by the event market which are: caricature, silhouette cutting, Chinese calligraphy, henna painting, airbrush tattoo and whatever known event fringe arts items, varnishing foods and whatever fringe art items that within and beyond your imagination, I guess that if for sure you can make big money.

So you will be always occupied event booking because any events companies sure need one of your fringe art service for their event.

I only emphasized on doing live caricature for such events, and since events and entertainment is a show business, most of them hired mainly to create the atmosphere for the events and expect us produce a big volume of drawings for the guests during our booking. So I always challenge myself with "minimum time frame to produce a maximum quality" of live caricature during the event working hour. I always try to complete it within 2-3 minutes for each A4 size black & white drawing with my familiar medium.
Within 2-3 minutes live caricature, try my best to produce a look-alike drawing in my style, just try to create some fun in this show business.I am not tend to offend any one, but just try to highlight that you definite can't compare your studio drawing's quality with my 2-3minutes live drawing, it is totally different thing, you only shown your childish jealous character, not professional at all and will be laugh be many other professionals in this trait. Just like a Restaurant Chef would never compare his dish with the standard of food that bought from hawker center. Unless you not deny you are an amateur artist that totally unable to differentiate what is live drawing for the show business, what is chargeable personal live drawing and what is called studio drawing.

If you believe you are an established and famous artist, you would not try your best to grab such little income of event live drawing job by talking bad of other artists, or do whatever bad thing or throw whatever black magic to kick anyone out.

Just by doing only live caricature drawing in events, can't make big money, just for example during 6.30pm-7.30pm at the weekend you can only do one job at place, so how much you can made during this day on 6.30pm-7.30pm?

For example like established and famous caricaturist Mr Einstein, he emphasize on his Media production or stage live drawing performance, or like our Singapore's famous portrait artist Mr Siew Hock Meng, a piece of artwork cost $1000- $10000 or more, you would never see them appear on dinner and dance or family day events doing free drawing for the guests which hired by the event company.

Event at Marina Mandarin Hotel Singapore

Did caricature for pre-event at Marina Mandarin Hotel Singapore.Met William Lee in his Wire Crafts!See this setting you should know who in doing airbrush tattoo --- yes, is done by Ivan from http://www.sg-airbrushtattoo.blogspot.com/!My foods of the day ;p

Ops! Job Cancelled.

Ouchi! Thought I can happily do a pre-event booking to night, but unfortunately the job had been canceled very last minute! Yup, it might be happened in the events industry, you got to prepare for this as an event artist.
Just having my Asahi beer now ;pMy dinner in a food court just now.

Fortune Teller for Events

Fortune telling is one of the popular pre event booking items.
Basically, it can be categorized in 2 types:
which more belonging Western type or either Eastern type.

For western type, Numerology, Tarot Card reading, Crystal, Crystal stone reading is commonly seen. Tea leaf fortune telling as you seen in Harry Potter movie which I had ever seen was done by Angela Yip so far.

Renae's tarot card and numerology fortune telling.Paul's Crystal stone reading.
Graphology, which commonly known as Hand writing Character Analysis is one item that people thought it belonging to fortune telling category but it actually not, it belonging to statistic type of human character analysis according the graphologist, it is Science, claimed by them.

For eastern type, Palm reading is of the common item.
The latest eastern type fortune telling which I seen in recent years including ‘Yi Jing’ or ‘E Jing’ (易经）fortune telling, Chinese poker card reading during pre events, as I know, specialist who doing event is rare, not because having rare master, but related master who can speaking English is rare due to conversation in English is essential during the event booking.

Most of the eastern type fortune telling was commonly seen in the ‘Shanghai Theme’, “Eastern Theme’, Chinese Culture theme and Chinese New Year period.

One of the unique eastern type can be seen is the Indian Parrot‘s Card ‘fortune telling, which the Indian master will get his Parrot pick one of the pre-written fortune telling card on the table to the Indian master (its owner), the card being picked was your fortune of the day ;p

Caricature at Jurong Bird Park

Just did a caricature for a dinner and dance’s fringe activity at Jurong Bird Park yesterday. I almost lost after struggling finding the actual event venue. I saw my friend doing their rehearsal in this amphitheater, I thought my booking venue is here; luckily I call up the event company who hired me and found out the right place. Phew!I managed to take some bird photos.

Caricature at Safra Jurong

This is my very first time in Safra Club Jurong, and was great to do caricature for the event here.I like this special designed big sized playground!This things was very cute as well.My lunch and dinner of the day ;p

The Art of Control the Crowd III

Through controlling of the queue, you can see many kinds of peoples; like their attitude, the way their reactions…..and their ‘Creativities’.

As a professional event artist, I always try my best to draw as much caricature as possible and try maintain the best quality within such time frame as I can.

In some type of events (usually in companies’ family days) , if there are 10 peoples in your queue, it doesn’t means there are really having 10 peoples queuing for your drawing, it could be multiple of the amount!

What I mean is: while I think this lady is the next person to be drawn in my queue, she does not sit down but will waive her hands and get both of her sons and husband cut the queue to sit down and get drawn instead!Based on this scenario, if one person queuing for 2 family members, you are going to draw 30 persons even though there are only 10 persons in the queue. That is the unexpected circumstances you need to handle.

Of course, people come to family day is to enjoy, there are many free gifts can be taken home and everyone just wanted to ensure each of their family members having the gifts, that is understood.

Unfortunately, we, the entertainers in-charged of producing free gifts might not able to fulfill every single guest’s need due to ensure the event running smoothly within the event’s time frame.

New Immigrant Belly Dancer and Drummer

I just found that these belly dancer and the drummer are wife and husband after watched Channel 8’s Thursday 10.30pm-11.00pm documentary ‘焦点’ yesterday.That is something new to me after met them in many events but did not know this at all, that was interesting to me yesterday ;p

Caricature at Palawan Beach, Sentosa

Great to do a roving caricature job for Exxon Mobil’s family day this morning.
3rd and 4th October is a hot day for events because of the Chinese Mid Autumn festival and also close to the Halloween Celebration period as well I guess.When the market very quiet in previous month, many event entertainers was looking at each other and wishing for job, while the market starts to pick up, that was a sudden high demand for entertainers, that is the events and entertainer’s industrial life, nobody can expect having job booking everyday, because the market got up and down period.
I knew that this morning was having many events in many places in this Singapore island, many events was asking artist, but as usual, whether you are the best, the famous, the fastest, the slowest caricaturists, all of us only can do job at 1 place because the booking hour mostly is the same timing.

Met Ivan and Lee Lee’ and their team doing airbrush tattoo in the event.They always having the long queue.Beautiful balloonist!Alex and her band troupe!Alex was real talented singer, she really good in Jazz, and she had sang a real old mandarin song (60’s or 70’s mandarin song) that really impress every guests which in one event I ever came across.

Mid Autumn Festival

This coming Saturday and Sunday (3rd and 4th Oct) was a hot day for entertainers, because it is the Chinese Mid Autumn Festival, many event companies was looking for artists for these two dates at the same timing.Even though that was high demand on these two days, doesn’t means every event artist sure can take in many job bookings, because it always only happened at the same timing, for example 100 event companies looking for you at 3rd Oct 6.30pm-7.30pm but you only can take in one job, you can't split yourself to do show at else way as the same timing.

In this mid autumn festival, I don’t have fortune telling booking but booked for Chinese paper cutting demo ;p

2009 F1 Singapore Grand Prix Final

Just know that Hamilton is the champion in this year’s 2009 F1 Singapore Grand Prix.Today still a very hot and warm day, but I felt slightly better than yesterday; maybe I get use to it.These two ‘Big Boobs’ lady stilt walker very cute and had been attracted many people taking photos of them. I found the design of their outlook was really simple but creative yet it create the cute visual fun and very original design, those friendly look was really felt comfortable and definitely won’t made your baby cry after seeing them!They was the starting of the concert by ‘Backstreet Boy’ after the completion of the car racing, it really attracted big crowd.
Hmmm.. is is the youngster’s ‘Getai’! Haahaa!Great to see some foreign busker down the street while on the way back home.
They really look professional, nice and original, thought as an entertainer, we really need to put more effort on improving our image.