Día de los Muertos acknowledges the symbiotic relationship between life and death. El día de Los Muertos is celebrated on November 1st and November 2nd, in which the spirits of the dead are believed to return home and spend time with their relatives on these two days. To welcome them, the family build altars in their honor. These altars have a series of different components that vary from one culture to another that mostly include yellow marigolds, candles, photos of the deceased ones, papel picado or cut tissue-paper designs, as well as food and beverages offerings for the dead.
Check out this video to learn some history about el Dia de los Muertos
and here is a video about Sugar Skulls
DIRECTIONS:
For your next project, you will be creating Sugar Skull collages.
We will focus on creating symmetrical balance and unity in our sugar skull designs.
Symmetrical balance refers to balance that is achieved by arranging elements on either side of the center of a composition in an equally weighted manner. Symmetrical balance can be thought of as 50/50 balance or like a mirror image. In other words, the image would look the same on either side of the center.
UNITY in art is about separate parts working together in a composition. In an artwork, unity creates a sense of harmony and wholeness by using similar elements and placing them in a way that creates a feeling of “oneness.”
Take a look at the examples below and at the link below for many sugar skull examples.
STEP BY STEP
Step 1- Fold your paper in half.
Step 2- Using one of the example skull shapes draw half of your skull on one side of your paper.
Step 3- While your paper is still folded, you can trace the skull shape you just drew on the opposite side of the paper. When you finish unfold your paper and check out your skull. You can also trace your skull with a sharpie now.
Step 4- Using the construction paper and the scrapbooking paper, create shapes for one side of your skull.
REMINDER: Please try to not waste paper, cut from the edges of colorful paper, not the middle.
We DO NOT cut pizza or paper this way!!!
Here are some links that show some how to draw tutorials on sugar skulls and their designs.
Step 5- Trace each shape you make ONE time to create your mirror image on the other side of your skull. At the end of this step you should have two shapes that are the same.
Step 6- Glue all of your colorful shapes down onto the skull. You may add overlapping shapes to create a more complex design.
Step 7- Cut out your finished skull and glue it down to a large rectangular black sheet of paper.
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