About
Sunwoo Mansour is an impressionist for hire in Sydney, NSW.
Sunwoo Mansour has drawn at more than 100 events, for clients including Netflix ANZ, Amazon and Harvey Norman. It works like this: a photo of your guest, then a live sketch, then they walk away with the portrait in a protective sleeve. The signature style runs at around ten portraits an hour. For bigger crowds a sketch team comes along and the rate pushes to 20 or 25. More detailed VIP portraits take longer, by design. Paper is 300gsm A5 watercolour stock, other sizes available, and your logo or the couple's names can be printed on it. All materials supplied. Setup is a trestle table about 1.6 metres long and a couple of chairs.
The show
It runs in three steps. Your guest gets photographed, Sunwoo sketches them live while the event carries on, and they take the portrait home in a protective sleeve so it survives the taxi ride. In the signature style that's around ten portraits an hour. VIP portraits are more detailed and take longer, deliberately so. And when the guest list is large, a sketch team comes along and the style adapts, which pushes the rate to somewhere between 20 and 25 an hour.
On the day
A plain trestle table, roughly 1.6 metres long, with a couple of chairs beside it. That's the lot. There's no rigging, no power hungry gear and nothing that needs a stage, so a corner of the room near where guests are already gathering works best. Somewhere they'll walk past rather than have to go looking for.
Performance options
There is no set menu of packages. What Sunwoo puts together depends on the kind of event and how your schedule runs, since a two hour drinks reception and a full day activation need different numbers of portraits and, sometimes, a sketch team rather than one artist. Give her the running order and the guest count when you enquire and she will build the session around them.
Insurance and paperwork
Public liability insured