Sunday, May 29, 2011

Quick Portrait at Resort World Event

Did quick portrait sketch for NATAS dinner and dance last week.Quick portrait drawing was required to sketch the likeness of the guest being drawn as close as possible, but it will take longer time. Not like caricature drawing, you can't exaggerate the drawing.
Ivan & Lee Lee was doing their Wire Craft in the event.Had dinner which treated by Ivan & Lee Lee after our show ;p

Monday, May 23, 2011

Event at Shangri-La Rasa Sentosa

Thought from ending of April to May was quite month for caricature booking due to Singapore's General Election 2011,. I managed to get a booking last week.Mr Yong was doing his Chinese Fan Calligraphy in the event.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Dinner and Dance Pre-Event Activities Items

In Singapore, most of the dinner and dance which handle by event management companies, mostly having pre-events or fringe art activities before the arrived guests go in to the ballroom.


Entertainers
For dinner and dance pre-events or fringe art activities, common items presently including:
Airbrush temporary tattoo, Balloonist(while the event known having many children), Body Art (Glitter Tattoo, Henna painting, Face Painting), Caricature drawing, Caricature on Key Chain Shrink Art, Fortune Telling (Tarot Card, Poker Card Fortune Telling, Palm Reading, Numerology, Face Reading, Indian Parrot Fortune Telling, Hand Writing Character Analysis), Fun Button Making (which either draw something or write the guests' name and make it on the round badges as souvenir), Hand Phone Glitters, Instant printing of Glamour Shot, Roving Close-up magician, Silhouette Cutting, Sue's Wax Hand Making, Wire Crafts to make the guests' names, Writing the guests names on the stone (Pebble Art), Mini T-Shirt Name writing using airbrush

Based on the theme, what I came across including:
- Chinese Theme/Shanghai Theme: Chinese Calligraphy, Chinese Paper Cutting (mostly during Chinese New Year period), Rainbow Calligraphy, Chinese Calligraphy on Chinese Fans, Chinese Knotting Demo, Fortune Telling (Mostly palm reading or Face Reading), Chinese Dough Figurine Making Demo.

- Cultural Theme: Malay Ketupak making Demo, Malay Kite Making Demo, Indian's florist ring making for welcoming guests, Chinese cultural stuffs as per mentioned, Indian's Unique Fortune telling which the Fortune Card picking by Perot.


Quick Hairdo and Makeover could be one of the item especially in Retro Theme Dinner and Dance. It could be dancers or models roving around just to create some fun (all depend on client's budget allocation)

- For Casino Theme / Secret Agent Theme, there will be some game setting, either in-charge by the event staffs or by the costumed Models.


Some items rarely seen in pre-events or fringe art activities items that I ever came across including:
Stilt Walker, Fire Eater, Juggler, Snake Charmer, Roving Models or Costumed Models to serve drinks for the guests, "Rice Art" (which write the guests' name on the rise and then frame in a small container then bind to the key chain), Bean Art (using bean stick on about A5 size card or board to combine as a painting, and write some artistic words).


Musician
Sometimes we can see roving Guitarists playing music and songs, or stationary type of 3-4 Jazz Band around within the standard 1 hour dinner and dance pre-events or fringe art activities.


Varnishing Food
Pop Corn making on the spot booth is one of the items during dinner and dance pre-events or fringe art activities especially in "Movie Night" or Hollywood Night related Themes.

"Ting Ting" candy, Malt candy, Chinese Dragon Beard candy could be seen in the event as well. (Can be seen during Chinese New Year Event /Shanghai Theme/ Cultural Theme)

"Teh Tarik" and "Kacang Putih" which represent Indian culture or engaged under Movie Themes.

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Caricature Shrink Art Key Chain

Did Caricature Shrink Art Key Chain at Swissotel for SMC's dinner and dance to night.William Lee's sister was doing pebble calligraphy in the event.Another fringe activity was Hand Phone Crystal Art in this event.
Thought all the guests sure had done their voting before they came to the dinner and dance in today's 7th May 2011, Singapore's General Election Day.

I just realized that down the street and many shopping mall and food court was having not much crowd, thought most of the resident was either stay at home, coffee shop or related venues to wait for the polling result which will be announced 10.00pm or later.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Live Caricature for Event

I do live caricature for event since 1990, our event booking and rate was based on hourly basis, hence we should be produce as many drawing within each hour's booking.My favorite medium for my caricature job was using wax pen or we called "China Graph" which belonging to crayon material.You can see my pencil box always having so many drawing pens, this is because I usually like to produce as many drawings within every hours' booking, which I need not do any shading of my drawing pens, hence I can produce about 20-25 drawings within an hour.

There are many caricaturists in the market using marker to do the drawing; I think nothing about good or bad, it depend on the how good the and how fast the drawing to be produce within the booking hours.

I would like to say, the technique in live drawing was very different from drawing in the studio.

Friday, April 29, 2011

Singapore's General Election Season

Time flies as arrow, the Singapore's General Election Season is coming, you can see the related election ads everywhere.and the related party's moving promotion was around in the resident district area.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Just Enjoy Food in Shenzhen ;p

Most of the time we just enjoy nice food during our Shenzhen trip ;p

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Shenzhen, China Trip

Due to the available time schedule of my friends and I, we just arranged the weekend and go Shenzhen, China from Hong Kong.This was my very first time landing in Hong Kong and I found that Hong Kong was a country surrounding my many mountains.It was very interesting that our taxi driver having so many hand phone in his taxi! I just curious and asked him, and he told us that were his walkie talkie! Very interesting!The weather of Shenzhen was very cold for me (about 22 degree) on the day we arrived.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

2 Hands Caricature drawing for event

Just did caricature drawing for a morning event.Kelvin was doning balloon in this event.Interesting stuffs for children.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Food Treat by Friends

Just had a dinner with friends and treated by them recently ;p

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

How to go Singapore Zoo from Ang Mo Kio MRT Station

I stay at Ang Mo Kio and I took MRT everyday, so I often met many tourist was taking MRT to Ang Mo Kio MRT Station and wanted to go to the bus interchange to take bus no. 138 to Singapore Zoo.

I realized that many tourist was thinking once arrived Ang Mo Kio MRT station, just go straight out and take bus to Singapore Zoo by bus station just at the left hand side of the exit of Ang Mo Kio MRT Station, that was totally wrong!

The right way to take bus to the Singapore Zoo, is at the bus interchange, which you need to go to the red color building, which is AMK HUB, the bus interchange in inside this red color building. I think most of the tourist first time to Singapore, they never know Singapore having many "Bus Interchange inside the building with aircon"!
You would not find any sign board in the MRT station or any nearby place indicate "This way to Singapore Zoo", I had emailed this ,matter to Singapore Tourism Board and Singapore Zoo, but no news so far, Haahaa! Maybe they think let the tourist explore themselves is much more fun ;p

For tourists, once you arrive Ang Mo Kio MRT station, once you came out from the MRT gate, you need to go by the escalator just at the right hand side, passing by the underpass and take the longest escalator at the other side to go up the bus interchange, which inside AMK HUB, or the red color building you seen from the MRT station.This is Bus number 138 queuing area.Hope my information will help.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Roving Caricature in Dim Light Environment

Grete to have a roving caricature job in Zouk recently.
As a professional event entertainer, a caricaturist, you must be able to work in a dim lighting environment, especially doing it in a roving way.
Doing live caricature in a dim light environment, due to having limited timing to observe the guests being drawn because the lighting in the pub, the basic drawing technique and experiences was required; how good of the drawing being produced, was depend on how experience you are.

"Diversed Attentions" group was performing in the event. Their performance was real great!
Jeremy Pei was in the event as well!

Sunday, April 3, 2011

2 Hands Caricature drawing for event

Just did caricature for a morning event yesterday.Mr Goh was doing his Chinese Calligraphy on Chinese fan in the event.Cute stilt walker.Cheerleader performance (from www.astroscheer.com)!Shela was doing her shrink art.
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