Recently I have been researching the history of Mexico and the development of the Day of the Dead celebrations and it set me off on my usual skull doodle which I have been minorly obsessed with for years.
This one skull is a little further along the evolutionary chain with his elongated head.
I was going for equal parts celebratory and scary.
This is the chief in all his lino glory.
Skulls hanging out to dry.
I had a bit of a problem initially with colour as my usual method of watercolour over lino was far too dull for the vibrancy I wanted to achieve with the day of the dead style of my skulls.
The nat chool skulls bro.
My housemate buddy pal had the great idea to use my inks to make them more vibrant so this was the initial result:
Choowler but nat chooewl enough yet...
I remembered that a girl on my foundation course who used inks a lot and her paintings always turned out really beautiful and ephemeral because she used the medium of ink for its best use, the bleeding of colours into each other.
This is what I came up with:
Pretty choowl but it doesn't have the main skull as white which I felt makes the image lose some of its impact.
THEREFORE I MADE THIS.
SUPER CHOOWEL:
Super trippy but nice and deliciously bright, kinda beautiful in a scary way.
A selection of the choowelst skulls.
All ready for day of the dead.
*** choowel, choowl and chool are cool ways of saying cool. I don't think it translates in writing***
I shouldn't write blog posts when I'm sleepy.
Love and Peas
( and skulls )
Victoria
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