Sunday Simulacra - Version 4.10

It's Sunday again, skull lovers, and that means it's time to display the hidden skull treasures that our readers have managed to capture.

Fiona found this evil looking moth in her back yard in Saluda, Va. She's, "Not sure if it's an actual Death's Head Moth, but it's definitely got some 'skull and crossbones' action going on."



M@ was sharing a tender moment when this spooky skull made an appearance.



Lora Ditko "spotted this skull turret at the Great Lakes Medieval Faire."



Thanks for sharing these. It seems to be getting harder to catch these sneaky little skulls these days. If you find one lurking about then submit it to us so we can proudly display your prize as well.

Super Skull Saturday (Heavy Metal Style)

Crank it up to 11 for today's Super Skull Saturday post, skullnatics! It's my honor and privilege to introduce Tom Adams from Canton, MI to the Skull-A-Day stage to take you to a new level of heavy metal skull making. This stuff is so heavy you're beard might even grow a few inches.

Every artist has their influences in childhood that guide them down that long and winding road. Tom tells us, "As a child I always wanted to grow up to be a paleontologist and was always interested in bones, bugs, fossils and things of that nature. I was also fascinated by death. In school I was never very good at academics but had a knack for art, especially sculpture."

Tom's road happened to have the bike path from Hell on it and hence we arrive at the awesomeness that Tom has pedaled into place. "Here is one I call the "Skelebike" that I built in 2008. It is all steel and is a full functioning bicycle. I showed it at the last two Detroit Autoramas where it was very well received and won multiple trophies."



The metal gods command that you check out the means by which Tom transformed a girl's bike into this vehicle of wickedness!

All right! I know this next piece isn't metal, but it's HEAVY! "It's made out of an actual piece of a grave marker that was replaced due to an error."



I mean come on, it's a tombstone skull! You bet yer ass Tatman's tombstone will have a skull on it! Let the metal continue....

"Here's another one I made out of stainless steel. I like to set this one on a shelf in it's open position, when somebody touches it, it collapses and makes a wonderful metal clank sound. Not to mention it usually also scares the $#!+ out of them too, which is a nice side effect."



Tom felt the fire burn in him to wield and weld the metal to do his bidding, passing along the gift of metal to those who desired to be heavy. "Here is the one that started it all for me in steel. I have probably made over a thousand skulls in my lifetime and gave most of them away to anyone that had a shared interest in them."



He even goes old, old school and kicks Jur"ass"ic with this wrenched out Triceratops.



As fate would have it(or as the metal gods intended it), Tom tells the tale of divine intervention, "Over the years I had tried many mediums but after being required to take a welding course for my job, I was hooked. I felt a strong sense of permanency in my work. It feels good to do work in a medium that isn't practiced by many artists."



Tom gets down right hard as rusty nails with the "Termin8r".




This trip into the metal bending mind of Tom Adams comes to end, but we can't go out without thanking him for sharing all of his great work. Thanks, to you, Tom! May the metal gods always shine bright on your supply of tools, materials, and inspiration. Thanks for being a part of Skull-A-Day and for keeping it HEAVY!



I told you this post was heavy. Tom was clean shaven when we started.

[Flashback Friday] 112. Construction Barrier Skull

Welcome to another addition of Flashback Friday.** This year the guest editors, Azurafae, Tatman, and myself, Citizen Agent, are taking turns counting down our personal favorite 17 skulls from the Original 365.25 Year. So please join us as we visit the archives and add our additional commentary on some of the original pieces.

#9: 112. Construction Barrier Skull


Local 180-C says:

Looks like we've got another overlap here. Being that it was NYC I wonder how much it actually cost the site to hire someone to come in and remove it or did they just let nature take care of it? Who knows maybe some enterprising reader went out and found this after you posted it and you will find it posted for sale someday. It has been mentioned before that the job of an artist is to see the potential in a form and allow that potential to come out. I admire that you were able to give birth to this just by casually walking by and seeing the potential. I also like that this was non-destructive graffiti, in that at anytime it could be undone and returned to its original state. Some thing I have always wondered about, what were the actions that you ended up with the materials to do this? After your meeting did you tell them you were having an art emergency and needed, a piece of construction paper, scissors, and tape stat?

**Flashback Friday was a weekly countdown of the fan selected top 52 skulls of Skull-A-Day 1.o. Each week during year 3.0 The Skullmaster posted the original skull along with some additional commentary in order from lowest to highest rated, with the #1 skull appearing in the last week of year 3.0, all 52 can be found here.

Dual Skull Goalie Mask

Gary Lockwood in Los Angeles, CA told us: “This is a hand painted vintage style goalie mask for hockey. I painted it so that it is a skull right side up or upside down. It is part of my own A-Day project called MASK365 inspired by Skull A Day.”

Right side up

Up side down

In use

Blue Line C says:

You had me at mask, but the final results are amazing. Although I don't know many goalies who stand on their heads, the creation of this piece to be dual sided is a wonderful concept and well executed. Thank you for sharing this with us, and thank you for letting us know about your “MASK365” project. We are always happy to be notified that one of our readers have been inspired by the site to create more.

Dia de la Abby: #10 - Bride of Frankenstein

With Halloween coming soon (well, 86 days away), I've had monsters on the brain, so I've made a couple monster skulls for you...one for this week, and one for next week. I even plan on becoming a monster for Halloween, but that is for another post that is closer to Halloween.

This lovely lady, is of course the iconic Bride of Frankenstein. When I think of female monsters, this is the one that I immediately think of. The Bride/Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, aptly named after the author of "Frankenstein" or "The Modern Prometheus", is played by Elsa Lanchester. She has stiff tall hair which is a result of her life giving electrocution. In this piece, I've portrayed her as post mortum (post post mortum?), but with hair intact as if her body bandages had mummified her hair some how or maybe her hair is just that impressive, that it needs to stay. The choice of black, white and gray are of course because the movie is a black and white movie, which are my favorite kind. Despite having color TVs in my household as a youth, I always preferred to watch TV on my mother's old black and white TV...you know, the kind with the rabbit ears, that only gets a few channels. Granted, I was watching mostly regular shows, occasionally I could watch old ones, and that unified the nostalgia of the black and white tv experience. Since we are on the topic of old movies, what is your favorite old movie?

There is no tutorial for this one. I used acrylic paint, a medium paint brush (for the grey background and black hair) and a black paint pen (for the skull and waves of the hair). If you haven't considered using a paint pen in your paintings, I recommend it. You get better control of lines and details. I've used them for various paintings and am always pleased with the easy of use and result.

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.

Huge Skull Painting

Mitzi Melville submitted this "huge skull painting". I cropped the photo, but it really is huge!


I like the contrast of the swirly gray & silver skull against the bold red back ground. The swirled skull reminds me of the texture of a grinder swirls on metal sheets. the pattern reminds me of how worms eat wood, leaving trails of where they have eaten. It's a beautiful path and very appropriate for a skull. Perhaps worms make the same sort of trails when devouring human flesh. I'm sure some wacky scientist know for sure. The pieces makes me ponder much more, which is the point of art, right? ...to make you think beyond the basic image of a skull. The way in which a classic image is portrayed, is what gets my mind generating alternative meanings, so in my mind, it's a successful piece.

Sheet Metal Skull

A man of few words “GDW” sent us this skull made from a steel heating duct.


HVA-C says:

This is an interesting piece with so many future possibilities. Your work has the potential to transcend being passive art and become alive. For example you could use it as a stencil and it might be interesting to see it displayed after it has been in service and what paint it might have collected. Another possibility might be to use it with light source for shadows. or simply fixing it to a duct, so that in the future when someone goes to check a duct in a cramped darken space, they get a surprise. I also enjoyed the staging of this picture, it makes me think of either a crime scene or an archeology find. Either way a skull find would be out of the ordinary. Thank you for submitting your work for us to share.

And the Eggs & Bacon Skull shirt winner is ...

Congrats to Essie as the randomly selected winner of the scrumptious Eggs & Bacon Skull shirt giveaway.

Thanks again to everyone for participating. It was great reading all of your ideas, even as gross as some of them may have been(but that's why we love you).

And of course even if you didn't win you can still get your own Eggs & Bacon Skull shirt, or choose from a whole slew of designs at Zooky shirts.

"Celexa" Skull

Lace-D joins the ranks of skull loving artists. "I love your site ....I'm a skull lover.....happy to see I'm not alone . This is an original piece that I painted-it's called 'Celexa'."



There's a lot going on here that I like. The urban warrior skull seems to be bursting onto the scene with his incandescent cans of paint making the bleak world of death a brighter place to be. I don't know whether or not your title is inspired by the real celexa, but your super colorful work is a great antidepressant as well. Thanks for sharing it!

Contest Reminder: Eggs & Bacon Tee!

Don't forget to enter the contest to win the Eggs & Bacon Skull T-shirt! You've got til just midnight Eastern Time tonight. Details are HERE.

"The Good Fight" Skull

It isn't very often that I see a piece that I can relate to on a really personal level. This is one of those pieces. Entitled, "The Good Fight", it is an oil painting created by Scott Saw of a skull combined with a heart. Information on prints, is available through his newletter.

It's the combination of the two things that is striking. Life is very precious and simply put, you need your heart in which to live. I myself am an owner of a delicate heart, for which I scarily became aware of half my lifetime ago. This is something that I will always have and makes me appreciate the life that I do have. Despite my heart condition, I do have the privilege of enjoying the life I have to the fullest capacity I can. In general, life is too short not to. Regardless of pre-existing conditions, you must take care of your body as a whole, you only have one. To me, skulls always remind me of how short life really is. You have one chance in which to live it, so live it well doing what makes you happy. On my skin, above my heart, I have tattooed a butterfly. Butterflies are not an abnormal image in which to have tattooed, but to me, it is a reminder of how, like a butterfly, my heart is delicate and I must treat it gently. It also represents freedom, but that is a story for another time.

Sunday Simulacra - Version 4.9

Today’s simulacra are found in daily travels on the West Coast.

The first stop today is from Hope Au in East Sacramento, California who wrote: “I work for a Chiropractor (so I have a lot of exposure to skulls and bones already lol). I absolutely love your blog so I thought I'd contribute something. This is a weird marking on the rail I saw while waiting for my train to and from work, totally NOT man made! ”


Next stop up the coast is by Terry Marsh in Salem, Oregon who said: “This is a mark that I spotted in the road next to a sidewalk where I work. This is not painted on the road, but is a feature, possibly chewing gum, but I didn't want to disturb it to find out!”


Last one before we hit the border, is one that Ainslee Lara from Seattle, Washington found on a sidewalk.


I-5 C says:

Thank you all for submitting your pictures to our growing weekly collection. Throughout America there are many roads that have alternative titles highlight their history, it looks like we may need to start that petition can get this stretch of highway from Sacramento, CA to Seattle, WA renamed the “Simulacra Trail.” Is there anyone in the Department of Transportation that can help with this? Maybe for a day? Let me suggest June 4th as that day.

Keep sending those pictures in to our submissions address. Just keep in mind that since we only post simulacra once a week it might take a little longer than normal for it to be posted.

"Bone Buddies" Skulls

Wenchkin is an artist after our own hearts here at Skull-A-Day. Today's skulls are portraits of her friends from a project titled "Bone Buddies". She writes, "I am an artist whose main subject is skulls, so much to the extent I did a project where I took 200 of my friends photos and turned them into skulls". In all there are 200 different portraits, but here's a video of the first 50 or so.







What an amazing project you created, wenchkin! Friendship is a wonderful inspiration and I'm sure your friends were thrilled to be a part of it. While watching the video I felt myself recreating the original picture in my head. Thanks for introducing your "Bone Buddies" to all of our friends.

[Flashback Friday] 159. Six-Pack Skull

Welcome to another addition of Flashback Friday.** This year the guest editors, Azurafae, Tatman, and myself, Citizen Agent, are taking turns counting down our personal favorite 17 skulls from the Original 365.25 Year. So please join us as we visit the archives and add our additional commentary on some of the original pieces.

#10: 159. Six-Pack Skull


Floatsom C says:

Today we get into my favorite top ten. This is a piece that I felt never got the full recognition it deserved. Seeing this piece always reminds me of how when I was a child I was told how important it was to cut these up before we threw them away. I remembering being told about the animals that would get caught in them and die if we didn’t do it. This piece serves as a fitting commentary on that idea. This is another piece that falls into that wonderful category of what I see as readymades. The object remains the same, just changed in its appearance. The ability to do this is something that was repeated in much of the original 365.25 and it is something that I continue to admire in Noah’s work. On a side note speaking of trash in the ocean, I just want to share this fascinating story that I think about often.

**Flashback Friday was a weekly countdown of the fan selected top 52 skulls of Skull-A-Day 1.o. Each week during year 3.0 The Skullmaster posted the original skull along with some additional commentary in order from lowest to highest rated, with the #1 skull appearing in the last week of year 3.0, all 52 can be found here.

Skull Rack

Dauvit Alexander , a past contributor here, is back with a key rack he designed. Dauvit wrote: “This is a skull-shaped key rack which was designed in Rhino and laser-cut for me by Ponoko. This was my first foray into using laser-cutting to create a "flat pack" kit for construction. You can see more photographs of the process here. ”


Gatekeeper C says:

♫ A skull with laser cut eyes ♫ Thank you for submitting this piece for us to share. I enjoyed seeing the process of you putting this together after it arrived. What I find most brilliant about this design is the fact that you incorporated the utilitarian feature of it hidden from the artistic side if of it. When it is in use one can still see the skull you designed perfectly. Best of luck with this experiment and if you decide to go into production with these please let us know.

Dia de la Abby: #9 - Hand Fan with Skulls

I try to always carry a hand fan with me where ever I go. The temperature in and out of buildings is alway fluctuating here, so I want to make sure I stay comfortable if it's too hot. The ones I like to carry are normally elaborate, but small enough to fit into a purse. I knew when I saw this inexpensive fan, that it needed to be adorned with skulls.

Fans have been used for many centuries to keep people cool. From huge palm frawns of ancient times to metal monstrosities of this age. Some of my favorite hand fans are the huge feather ones used by dancers, the intricate hand painted Japanese fans, and the overly ornate ones of early European favor. They are practical, yet glamorous. If you would like to know how I embellished this inexpensive fan, see the tutorial.

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.

Pirate Skull Make-Up

Return submitter, Edward Przydzial sent us this great photo of him as a skull.

Edward does great work. I'm really impressed with this skull make-up. I love the gaunt look the texture gives to the skull face. The rest of the costume combined with the skull reminds me of Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean. Pirates are people who you don't want to run into, and a skull one increases the scare factor. I've been looking at different skull make-up designs for an upcoming party, this is the 1st really masculine one that I've seen and I'm thrilled. I'll have to do something similar for my husband, when his need to be a skull arises. If any of you have made yourself into a skull or skeleton, please submit your photos to us. We would love to see them.

RIP Ryan August

I'm behind on my blog reading and only just discovered that Ryan August, creator of the fantastic I Want Your Skull blog and a kind supporter of Skull-A-Day early on, died a few weeks ago in a car accident. He is survived by his wife and son. There is a Facebook page that has been set up to allow friends to post remembrances about Ryan HERE. If you found creative inspiration in his blog & art please consider helping his family out by making a donation, several options for helping out are also listed on the Facebook page.

Punctuation Skulls

Today’s skulls come from “Kangarookid” Johnson who said: “A friend of mine sent me your way with my designs, he thought you might like them!”


Closure C says:

Thank your friend for us for sending you our way. You have a great start here on making your very own font. I enjoy the subtle changes that you specifically made with these two pieces using the shape of each skull to accent the character above it. Thank you for submitting your work for us to share. For more inspiration, you should check out the fronts from the original 365.25 that are availible at the “Free Stuff” link at the top.

[BONUS] Skull Scouts!

OK so this may be one of the most awesomely random things that have come out of the Skull-A-Day project... A little while back our friends at Nerd Merit Badges asked for permission to use my Skullphabet font skull for a special patch for a conference. The patch caught the eye of Melissa, a Girl Scout troop leader in California, who wondered if she could get a special patch made for her girls. Needless to say both I and the Nerd Merit Badge folks were happy to oblige and a special Skull-A-Day Troop Crest was created! Then just a couple of weeks ago the troop finally received their patches and here's what Melissa had to say about it:

We had our end of the year awards ceremony, and to commemorate the new troop crests, we decided to hold it in the local Victorian cemetery.  As part of the ceremony, each girl listed a few things on her personal bucket list!  We hiked back to my house and enjoyed snacks and Brianna Ariel's Whimzkulls cookies. Thanks so much to the guys at Nerd Merit Badges and of course Skull-A-Day for giving Troop 202 a crest that truly matches the group personality!

What can I say, I am just honored that my work will be gracing the sashes of clearly the coolest Girl Scout troop around!

P.S. I actually ended up with a small amount of these patches myself, and I would like to give them away, but like the Girl Scouts you have to earn them. So here's the deal, the first five people to get June 4, 2011 officially recognized as "Skull Appreciation Day" in your city, state, or country (and send in proof), will get one!

Knitted Skull Cloth

Today's skull is one for the lot of you who like to knit one, purl two. Michelle Rautis showed some real thoughtfulness with her knitted skull cloth. She writes, "I recently had a friend who was going into the hospital to have hip replacement surgery. I wanted to make him something he could use in the hospital and being that he is younger and likes skulls I designed and wrote the pattern for this dish/wash cloth."



This is very cool, Michelle. I know nothing about knitting, but I do know a thing or two about handmade skulls. I'm sure your friend will be happy to put his skull cloth to work washing whatever is...ahem...necessary. Thanks for spreading your friendship through skulls.

UPDATE: Michelle has informed me that she will be sharing this pattern on her blog very soon. Check it out here to keep watch for it.

[CONTEST] Win An Eggs & Bacon Skull T-shirt

It's been said by many that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Whether you enjoy a healthy piece of fruit or a piping hot plate of biscuits and gravy we all know that breakfast is what can get us going for the day. Now you can combine your love of breakfast with your love of skulls by winning an Eggs & Bacon Skull t-shirt from Zooky shirts. Dave Williams was inspired by Noah and Skull-A-Day to create his own blog for "Zooky" projects over at Zooky World. He has graciously volunteered to give away one of his Eggs & Bacon Skull shirts to one of our lucky readers.



To be entered in the drawing just leave a comment below saying what a skull would eat for breakfast. [NOTE: If you're reading this on Facebook, be sure to leave your comment on the original Skull-A-Day.com post if you want to be actually entered in the contest]

IMPORTANT: Don't forget to include a way to contact you (either an e-mail in the post OR make sure your Blogger profile has an e-mail link for you on it).

You have until just Midnight Eastern Time August 2nd to enter so don't delay! The contest is over! Thanks to everyone for participating!


And of course you don't have to wait til the end of the contest to get your own Zooky shirt! There's tons of different designs to choose from.

Sand Skull

Andy Hamm and made this skull with the help of his wife, Carol Ann Livingstone, on Martha's Vineyard, South Beach.

I was recently at the beach, so I still have sand on the brain...and in my car. I've always enjoyed seeing wonderful sand sculptures like this one. It takes a lot of creativity, time and patience to make such a wonderful piece. Of course it's lots of fun too taking something as common as sand and molding it into a sculptural form. This particular piece reminds me of the two sand sculptures ( Sand Skull 1 and Sand Skull 2 ) that the skull master, Noah, made during his 365 project. Odd thing about this photo, If you rotate it 180 degrees, the skull appears inverted. It's an optical illusion that I suggest you try.

Sunday Simulacra - Version 4.8

Nicholas Joseph Viltrakis sent us this shadow skull. You should be able to see it if you look at the light colored house. I also think the right side house's windows, chimney and bush look like a skull. So, it's a 2 for 1.

Mr. Wishnack, "found this semi-skull on the side of an old abandoned church on Nob Hill in San Francisco. This skull find is sort of robotic to me. Reminds me of the retro robots of sci-fi films and toys.

Callie Haplea found this "SkullaPOOLooza" skull while "looking down into the pool filter". This one reminds me of "modern" paintings. Also, anything involving a pool in the summer is a great thing.

Keep sending those found skull photos in to our submissions address. We are running low, so start searching and submitting! Just keep in mind that since we only post simulacra once a week it might take a little longer than normal for it to be posted.

[BONUS] Stenciled Skull Shoes

It's more skull shoes for a "sole-full" Saturday. Kayla recently did a painting project and used Noah's #9 stencil skull.



Good work on the shoes, Kayla. The bright coloring camouflages the skulls for a great subtle effect.

You can find more of Noah's stencil and other goodies under the Free Stuff link at the top of the page. If you are inspired to use any of them then be sure to send us a pic so we can share it with our readers.

More Of Miykey's Skull Shoes

Skull-A-Day friend Miykey is back with another pair of fantastic looking painted shoes. In case you missed his other submissions you can see them here.



Once again you present a job well done. I can't imagine feeling depressed or in a bad mood if I were walking down the street in a pair of these. Way to keep in stride with awesomeness, Miykey! You can see more of his work here.

[Flashback Friday] 168. (Escape To) Skull Mountain

Welcome to another addition of Flashback Friday.** This year the guest editors, Azurafae, Tatman, and myself, Citizen Agent, are taking turns counting down our personal favorite 17 skulls from the Original 365.25 Year. So please join us as we visit the archives and add our additional commentary on some of the original pieces.

#11: 168. (Escape To) Skull Mountain


Sherpa C says:

Looks like today I am carrying some more baggage from last year. When I first saw this piece, I was fooled into thinking that this was a photoshop job of a real mountain. After enlarging the picture I then realized what an extraordinary piece this was. If I remember correctly each skull Noah did back in 1.0 was actually started and completed in the same day. The Skullmaster must have rose with the sun in order to finish this while there was still daylight to take the picture. To this day I am still curious about the size of the piece, I know the dimensions, but I just can't imagine what it would look like say next to a gallon of milk. To this day, I still really enjoy the mirror effect for the water, how can something so smooth cause such a ripple effect.

In thinking about this piece today I was reminded of the early 20th century climber, George Mallory, who’s body was recover 75 years later on Mount Everest. This piece would make a fitting tribute to all those who push the limits of their human existence for eternal recognition.

**Flashback Friday was a weekly countdown of the fan selected top 52 skulls of Skull-A-Day 1.0. Each week during year 3.0 The Skullmaster posted the original skull along with some additional commentary in order from lowest to highest rated, with the #1 skull appearing in the last week of year 3.0, all 52 can be found here.

Birthday Skulls

Jennifer Ferrell from Tennessee wrote: “My son Parker loves skeletons. This is a birthday cake I made him and a Never Ending Birthday Card, it's his secret treasure map.



Master C the Partially Great says:

Although he will deny it for a time in many years from now, your son is very lucky to have a mom like you. A hand done cake and a fancy treasure map really made this occasion something to remember. I really like that you upcycle items not just in this piece, but in that other work that you create. Thank you for taking the time to share your work with us, and please also note that around here that most of us are a part of a rouge band of Space Pirates which you are also welcome to join here.

** Now on to a Skull-A-Day celebration, this is the 2,000th post to the site. Make sure you Flashback to the one that started it all here. Thanks to all who helped us get to this milestone, and assisting us in the future towards the next one.

Dia de la Abby: #8 - Skull Stamp/Skull print dress

A few months ago, we were invited to the formal wedding of two of our close friends. John and I had outfits, but our daughter, Alex, did not have a fancy dress to wear...well, one that still fit. She is growing so fast, her old ones don't fit any more. I asked her what kind of dress she wanted me to make her, she told me she wanted a skull dress. So, I made her one. She wore the dress this past weekend.

Finished Dress

There are lots of commercial skull fabrics available, but since I wanted to use this creation for a Skull-A-Day post, I decided on making my own skull print fabric. I made a foam stamp, for which I made a tutorial, so you can make your own foam stamps and print fabric using them. I think I will make a skull cherries stamp next for my own dress. Alex's dress is not your average wedding attire, but it was well received by all.

Finished stamp, with grey paint

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.

Watercolor skull

Ryall Burden send is this water color, pen and ink that he did while "filling in time one day".

I love the nicely blended water colors under the roughly sketched skull. The configuration of the water colors remind me of what the setting sun looks like on clouds. Combined with the skull in this sun drenched clouds, makes me think this skull is rising to Heaven (should you believe in Heaven)...which is an appropriate place for skulls to go. It could also be a good way to honor all those pilots and passengers of the past who did not land safely. Since we are not naturally flying creatures, taking a plane to fly is a risk. We can only hope that when we chose that travel method, that we land safely and can go about enjoying our lives as if they are our last days. Life is too short not to.

"Memento Mori"

Scott Smith of Rucus Studio in Portage, MI wrote: “This skeleton/skull is a piece I created for one of my online shows. The piece is titled ‘Memento Mori’ and is made of papier-mache, composition and antique fabrics.” Scott also told us his work can also be viewed in person each year at the Ghoultide Gathering Art Show near Detroit, MI. More information about that show can be found here.


Mitten C says:

One of the things that I look forward to in my duties is being exposed to all the great living artists currently working in the field. Thank you for sharing this work and your art with us, and also thank you for sharing the information about the annual show you participate in. You have made many people’s bucket list one line longer today.