A Pair of Skull Creations

Artist Lisa Vollrath of Ten Two Studios sent us a pair of Skull projects that she has completed.  The first is a sheet of sugar skulls that she designed. Followed by a winged tin shrine she made out of the base of an Altoids container.

Memorial C says:

A truly fitting tribute for that which you have remembered with your work.  I am quite impressed with your winged shrine, knowing the size of an Altoids package, you were able to pack so much detain in such a small area. The sugar Skull sheet reminds me of playing cards and with the natural looking pairing of designs I could see them easily for sale as Bridge packs. Thank you for submitting your art work for us to share.

Skull Shrine

In honor of this passing week I'm paying homage with this skull shrine from Lisa Vollrath, artist, designer and writer from Euless, Texas. She writes, "Here's an assemblage piece I finished this week. It's mostly found objects, in a wood shadow box that's about 10 inches tall."



I found this piece on Lisa's page of shrines with more wonderful commentary. Being from Texas I can totally feel you with your funny heat stroke comment, Lisa. Thanks for the great work and hearty laugh!

Shrines are an excellent way to pay tribute in an artistic way. I want to know who you would build a skull shrine for. One rule though, the Skull Master is too obvious of a choice so he's my nomination.

Dia de la Abby #19: Dia de los Muertos Shrine

I made this shrine in honor of my paternal grandparent, who have both passed away. The shrine contains favorite elements from their house. I had planned on making clay skeletons, but it seems my clay skills have not improved over the years, so I settled for just skulls. Those, I can do.

Close up of skulls. I made the skulls different sizes and shapes, so they would represent two different people.

The two skulls are sitting on a bench that has a grape vine above it. This is one of many of my favorite things that used to exist at my grandparents' house.

Since this piece does contain so many different mediums to make it...paint, beads, wood, clay...etc., I wrote a tutorial for it. It will explain how I made it and why I chose to make certain elements. You can learn a little bit more about my family as well as view close ups of each section.

Every week in the 4.0 year, I will be post my own Dia de la Abby posts as well as a tutorial with instructions on how I made my piece. Hopefully you feel inspired by my posts just as I was by Noah's Skull-A-Day 1.0 daily project. Need more of me than just a weekly dose, follow me on Twitter and/or Facebook.