I had the unique opportunity to create a giant skull from vinyl stickers on the hood of a decommissioned school bus!
If you look carefully you'll spot a vintage Skull-A-Day sticker peeking through!
This was created in conjunction with a street art sticker exhibition called Hello My Name Is which was at Gallery5 here in Richmond, VA in September.
The bus will eventually be transformed into a mobile art gallery. You find out more about the plans as they come about from Little Giant Society HERE.
Once again my company is holding our annual public Creative Sprint from October 1-30. Each day for 30 days we share a simple prompt and ask folks to take just a few minutes to make something and share it!
I always try to participate as well since it's inspired by my original Skull-A-Day project. AND since it's the 10th anniversary of the Creative Sprint I decided make some daily skulls again in tribute to the project.
Here's what I did on Day 1, when the prompt was, "make something that fits in the palm of your hand, using only the materials in your immediate environment"...
This is a direct reference to day one of Skull-A-Day when I cut out an orange paper skull. My schedule is absolutely bananas right now, with multiple overlapping creative projects, so I really don't have the time to dedicate many hours a day to skull making this time around. However it's fun to spend a little time each day thinking about the project that transformed my life and career!
If you want to see what I'm making, I'm just putting them in my Instagram stories AND in the private LinkedIn group dedicated to the Creative Sprint (you're welcome to join there if you want to take part. The prompts are being posted each morning!)
Skull art comes in waves for me and apparently 2025 is the Year of the Skulls for me. This is the first of 2 new pieces I created recently and more are on the way...
This is the first sticker art skull I've made since 2021 and I'm thinking that this will be part of a trilogy of pieces eventually.
This one is currently in Brooklyn for the Skull Rock At Treasure Island show at Sweet Lorraine Gallery, featuring over 160 artists. The show opens Saturday the 4th and runs through Halloween.
If you're in the area, I hope you'll check it out in person! More details about the show can be found HERE.
I hope you find a nice way to celebrate your own skull today!
If you want to go the extra mile, grab some new skull merch for yourself in my store HERE!
Everything in my merch store is 20% OFF right now!
Even items already on sale are included!
No code needed. Discount will be taken automatically in your cart.
Sizes are running out already on these limited edition items so don't miss out.
Sale ends this Friday, May 23rd.
Shop now HERE!
This is my biggest and last sale of the year! And it only is running for 96 hours: from now through the end of Cyber Monday, December 2nd.
I'm not going to be reprinting any of these shirts and several of the sizes have already sold out, so be sure to check early to get the ones you want before they disappear forever!
Start shopping now HERE. Note: discount taken automatically in checkout.
My paid Team Art members on Patreon get access to an ongoing Studio Sale where I sell works at up to 50% off what they would cost in a gallery! These are pieces I've previously displayed and have come home to my studio to stay. And in many cases shipping is included in the price if you're in the US!
Get exclusive access ONLY through this Sunday, December 1st HERE.
p.s. Of course you can get access to my Studio Sale all year round if you become a paid member of my Team Art on Patreon! Paid membership includes a bunch of other great things like exclusive content and discounts as well, so please consider joining today!
This is a limited run only product and only a few of each size are still available, so don't wait to grab yours in my merch store HERE!
And yes, they really do glow in the dark!
Happy Skull Appreciation Day!
I can't believe it's been 17 years since I launched this project. And I still get daily opportunities from having made this commitment to my own creative growth!
If you feel like celebrating your own skull today make some art and share it with others, you never know what it'll lead to.
Thanks for still following me here.
–Noah
p.s. If you want give your skull a gift check out the new Skull-A-Day merch in my store HERE.
My Spring T-shirt collection is out now!
I'm excited to share the 2 brand new limited edition shirts that are in my store.
This one features the art from day #290 of my original year of Skull-A-Day...
And this one is the first time I've put my sticker artwork on a T-shirt...
I'm really excited with how these came out! The detail is phenomenal with this water-based printing and the shirts, which are 100% ring spun cotton from Bella+Canvas, are so soft.
They're both limited run so don't wait to get yours now HERE.
Hey y'all I'm so excited to share that there are some brand new Skull-A-Day products out today!
I partnered with Pillowhead Merch to create a new store to sell items featuring my art, including two brand new shirts...
The Skulledelic tee is based on day 347 of the project.
The Sparkler Skull tee is based on day 66 of the project. AND it glows-in-the-dark...
There's also a super cool hat with an embroidered Skulledelic patch.
And you can now get my Skull-A-Day book (featuring every image from the project) directly from me there too!
The quality is really amazing and they ship fast! It's a perfect time to treat your self and start stocking up on gifts for your favorite skull lovers this holiday season! Check out the new store now HERE.
For Day 3 of Creative Sprint we were tasked with using a single sheet of paper to make a sculpture...
I decided to revisit Day 72 of my original project where I designed a papercraft toy skull.
The pattern for the original skull is still available as a free downloadable PDF to make and decorate yourself! Get the original pattern HERE and get a blank DIY version HERE.
Day 2 of Creative Sprint: working with the letters of my name. I used a range of typefaces to find the shapes and weights I needed to make this work.
Hey y'all I'm participating in my company's annual 30-day Creative Sprint challenge again!
This year I decided to pay tribute to Skull-A-Day (since it was in fact the thing that inspired my work as a creativity consultant). So I'm going to try to make a skull a day inspired by the Creative Sprint prompts and some of the original skulls I made back in 2007-2008.
For Day 1 the Creative Sprint prompt was "Make something that fits in the palm of your hand, using only the materials you find in your immediate environment." So I carved a small orange skull in honor of the small orange (paper) skull from Day 1 of Skull-A-Day!
I'm excited to announce the release of all 366 of my original Skull-A-Day skulls as NFTs today!
This project has been months in the making and as of Noon Eastern Time the public is invited to mint their skulls on the special site we built for the project: TilDeathDoUs.art!
If you've been following this project since the beginning the site might look familiar as it was based on the layout of this blog way back in 2008. Look in the sidebar for some fun easter eggs in the form of the original blogroll (sorry the links don't work).
I'd love to see what skulls you get, so be sure to share and tag me (@NoahScalin on IG & Twitter) and use the #skulladay hashtag! And of course please help me spread the word!
Thanks for continuing to support me and this project on its 15th(!) anniversary!
