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From Old City to the reception Gedongan

Toni (46) are so quick to play scissors. As I occasionally glanced at the faces before him, he continues to plumb a sheet of black paper. In just two minutes, be the female silhouette in front of him. The silhouette is like a facial shadow. Toni opened the booth at the "Jakarta Fair, Sale Jakarta, Jakarta Smile" in Dharmawangsa Square, Jakarta. However, the daily Toni opened the workshop at his home near the Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (Ancol), East Jakarta.

"But if I open the stall Saturday night in Old Town, close to the painter sketches and karikutur," said Toni.

Toni admitted he could also make a sketch or drawing caricatures of people. However, according to Toni, the top-selling silhouette scissors. He claimed in one day open a stall in the old city, he could produce about a dozen silhouettes. Who's most interested in the services offered Toni?

"If in the Old City, a tourist from Asia and Europe's most lots. Especially from Europe. If they are not from America so interested. Indonesia is also a lot, but more the foreign tourists," he said.

Toni explains the art cutting silhouettes include a new behavior in Jakarta because there are two artists who did it.

"Two people that yes I am and there is one person my acquaintance, gentlemen. He used to appear on television. I was once at the Ancol Art Market, now he is too. Several times I saw him make cutout silhouette, I became interested and thinkers 'I can make anything like this', "Gomez said.

Indeed, Toni had been an early works in the field of fine arts. He used to paint and draw. Since not try to "cheat" that he began to pursue the art of silhouette cutting. His expertise in the art he acquired a self-taught.

"It's been 25 years to pursue my silhouette," he said.

Nothing that he could not face Make a silhouette. Because every human being has its own characteristics that distinguish one face to face.

"I never have trouble finding the hallmark of that. Each person different backgrounds," he admits. He can make a silhouette from a photo. Condition, the photo should appear next. If you are interested in the silhouette created by Toni, you can simply spend USD 50,000. In the event that took place in Darmawangsa Square, Toni also provides a frame at no extra cost.

Silhouette that is so will he stick on white paper and signed. Done that, Toni was put inside the frame. He said if the current open stalls in the Old City do not always provide the frame.

"Many have asked for in the Old City who asked not to use frames because a motorbike so afraid to break. But if the stock frame back there, I usually take it well," he explained. Uniquely, Toni customers also frequently than the bride. The silhouette of his work used as a wedding gift.

"It's getting a lot of requests for wedding receptions. So as long as two or three hours I would make the silhouette of the guests who come. Paper taped behind the silhouette but has been provided by the bride, because there's usually writing a thank you," said Toni.

Unmitigated, the usual wedding reception hire services are held in expensive buildings. Toni service rental fees for any wedding reception can be more than Rp 500,000 per hour.


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