Sugar Skull Project

Posted by Gabrielle Arnold in Art Advanced - Hull on

  1. Explain in your own words what a sugar skull is.
  2. Explain how you came up with the design for your mask/skull.
  3. Explain the process from beginning to the end, the process that you went from having no mask to having a finished and painted mask. 

    A sugar skull is used in the Mexican "Day of the Dead" that usually takes place a day after Halloween.  The skull is usually adorned with many colorful designs, or in some cases black and white.  The skull is to represent a deceased family member.  My design for my skull is a simple black and white design that was inspired by paisley and Mayan artifacts.  The first part of creating my sugar skull included plastering a friend's face for the mold of my mask (THANKS FRANKIE!), then once the mask dried, I painted over the mask with white paint to give the mask a solid base.  Then I began painting my design from the forehead down.  

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