7th- Dia de los Muertos and Sugar Skulls

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.

https://dayofthedead.holiday/

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.

https://www.thaneeya.com/sugar-skull-art

"Sugar skull day of the dead" Google search results

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 by Step How to Draw a Skull

Skull Example

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. 

https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-draw-a-sugar-skull--cms-32007

https://easydrawingguides.com/how-to-draw-a-sugar-skull/

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. 

5th- Keith Haring!

 For our next lesson, we will look at the art of Keith Haring and the figures that he created. 

First, you will practice creating Keith Haring figures by drawing from the Roll-a-Haring worksheet. Then, you will create a collage using construction paper and markers for your figures.

Haring's figures had particular meanings, kind of like hieroglyphics do. Check out this link to lake a look at some of their meanings. 

Keith Haring Figure Meanings

Project 1- Roll-a-Haring

Use the link below to use a virtual die.

Roll the die and draw the corresponding number. 

Create three Haring figures in the three boxes on the worksheet. 

Virtual 6 sided Die

Project 2- Collage

DIRECTIONS:

1. Create 3-4 Keith Haring figures. You may use the same color or different colors. You figures may all have the same pose or different poses.

2. Glue your figures onto a white piece of paper. Look at the example images. Try to glue your figures in a repetitive pattern. 

3. Add action lines, and patterns all around your figures, using all different colors.