Coin Skull

Oscar Fox submitted this image of 4 skulls made of coins. He explains, "I'm still plugging away with my 365 day project Another Day Another Dollar and have reached day 256.  I made this skull of coins with you in mind and hope it may appeal to your skullyness. I only made the one skull but photographed it under different lighting to get the varying images. I'll try to incorporate at least one more Skull before we reach the journeys end."

These look like one of those games where you have to guess how much money is in the jar. This one however, has 256 coins. The shine on these is really nice. Reminds me of putting coins in jewelry cleaner while mom was soaking her jewelry, just to see what color it would turn. Rarely did they turn back to their original color. Normally, they tarnished in a rainbow of colors.

Dana Frostick- “Geopoliticus”

On June 4, 2011 Skull-A-Day celebrated Skull Appreciation Day with an exhibit of over 100 skulls at Gallery 5 in Richmond, VA. If you didn't have a chance to make it to the gallery while the show was up, we now proudly present: "Skull Appreciation Day - The Exhibition".

Dana Frostick- “Geopoliticus”

Dana Frostick- “Geopoliticus” $250.00

Please visit the artist’s exhibit page for information if this work is available for purchase.

The 2011 Skull Appreciation Day - The Exhibition was a collective art show celebrating the 5th anniversary of Skull-A-Day.com and its tremendous audience of artists and readers.

Throughout year 5.0 we will be featuring artwork from the show a few times a week. This is a chance to see all of the excellent skulls that were on display, and FOR SALE. Some of these pieces may still be available and this is a wonderful opportunity to own an original piece of skullriffic artwork. There are many well known artists who have contributed very reasonably priced works and many of them have donated their portion of the sale to benefit a great charity, the Richmond Peace Education Center.

Please take a moment to view all of the remarkable work that was created for the onset of this annual festivity. Your skull will appreciate you for showing it some love.

Chalkboard Ukulele Skull

Stephen Sloan the brains behind Chalkboard Ukulele wrote: “Thanks so much for your Skull-A-Day site. I love it! Here is a little Skull-A-Day tribute I did for you.”

Key of C says:

This is a great idea. I love that not only are you a facilitator of the art, but you are also a participant. Who knew there was so much artistic diversity in the ukulele world. Thank you for sharing your project with us and keeping us up to date on the ukulele music scene.

Roman Zelgatas & Kristy Lee- “Livingston Skull”

On June 4, 2011 Skull-A-Day celebrated Skull Appreciation Day with an exhibit of over 100 skulls at Gallery 5 in Richmond, VA. If you didn't have a chance to make it to the gallery while the show was up, we now proudly present: "Skull Appreciation Day - The Exhibition".

Roman Zelgatas & Kristy Lee- “Livingston Skull” $220.00


Please visit this artist's exhibition page for purchasing info.

The 2011 Skull Appreciation Day - The Exhibition was a collective art show celebrating the 5th anniversary of Skull-A-Day.com and its tremendous audience of artists and readers.

Throughout year 5.0 we will be featuring artwork from the show a few times a week. This is a chance to see all of the excellent skulls that were on display, and FOR SALE. Some of these pieces may still be available and this is a wonderful opportunity to own an original piece of skullriffic artwork. There are many well known artists who have contributed very reasonably priced works and many of them have donated their portion of the sale to benefit a great charity, the Richmond Peace Education Center.

Please take a moment to view all of the remarkable work that was created for the onset of this annual festivity. Your skull will appreciate you for showing it some love.

Luckless And Long Tooth Skulls

If you're the kind of person who " works in a stuffy corporate office where I am the one weird guy that rides a motorcycle to work and prefers to wear hotrod/counter culture tshirts" then you would have a lot in common with graphic designer Jake Heaton. He has a couple of simple and great looking skull designs with some neat backstories.

"Luckless Skull"

"A while back some friends and I organized a motor club. We are all gearheads and have been frustrated by the different clubs that were out there because they were either too specific or were too traditional... neither of these fit our interests. Thus 'The Luckless' was born and is designed to be about motors and pretty much anything they are attached to. The concept behind the name and the companion logo is that we build what we have and not just buy it, and then pass ourselves off as car guys. Sometimes this means we get burned, but in the end it's a labor of love that will be with us till we die!"

"Long Tooth"

Maybe my dreams are messed up, I'm not sure but either way that is how I found the inspiration for this skull. I woke the next morning, ran to my desk and drew out what I could remember of the skull I saw in my dream. Some refinements and trial drawings later, this is what I ended up with.

I love the idea of the Luckless Skull logo for your club. It's one thing to be a member, but when you have an official patch it just makes it that much better, right? Of course it does. If you haven't done this yet, Jake, then I suggest you do. I'd sign up just to get one. Thanks for sharing these.

Skull Woodblock Print

Ramon Rodrigues from Brazil, returns to us with more of his great woodcut prints.

What always amazes me with Ramon's work is the high level of detail. They look like pen and ink drawings, but in fact, they are made from cutting a wood block. This takes a lot of time and patience, but obviously it's worth it.

[BONUS] The Gift of Skulls - Papercuts

I ran into my friend Corey Marie at a wonderful local street fair and she gave me this awesome little recycled notebook with her original illustration on the front...

She sells this design and many other awesome things at her Etsy store so be sure and check them all out  HERE.

Sunday Simulacra - Version 5.11

The skull hunters are taking to the streets to find more hidden skulls. Let's see what the streets bring us this week...

I found this frightful fellow on the bricks in front of the fantastic Gallery 5 in Richmond while I was visiting for the Skull Exhibit for Skull Appreciation Day.



Kmo...Góngora sends in this brain case look alike from a bustling boulevard. "Look what I found in a metal post on the streets of Usaquen in Bogota Colombia."



And pensive pumpkin shares these wonderful earrings that she found while walking the streets. "I did not make these, let me be clear. But I found them in a vintage jewelry shop (Alana in Seattle) and know nothing about them, so I am really hopeful that someone will know something. When I mentioned to the salesgirl that they were skulls, she looked at me like I was insane. But I know a skull when I see one, and I thought these were exquisite. Very understated skulldom, so I can wear them in the straight world and not get kicked out of boring courtrooms.



Keep your peepers peeled for those hidden skulls about you and submit them to keep the hunt alive. You never know where they might turn up. Except for every Sunday here on Skull-A-Day. That's a given.

[BONUS] The Gift of Skulls - Wenchkin

Just had to share the wonderful package of goodies that arrived at Skull HQ from Wenchkin this week. Along with the original hand drawn version of my calaca portrait, she included silkscreen prints of Frankenstein's Monster and The Bride of Frankenstein, along with a set of silkscreened note cards and a bunch of great little magnets...

See more of Wenchkin's wonderful work on her Facebook page HERE or even better, get some for yourself on her ArtFire page HERE.

Hidden Butterfly Skull

Do you see what Rachel Hong-Kei Ho sees? This shady skull is hiding a secret counterpart in it's steely smile.



To loosely quote a musical trio, "If you can see what I'm seeing then it's an artistic masterpiece. If you can see what I'm drawing with then that's cool at least."

Suttle shades of graphite grey bring a concealed revelation to our site today. Thanks for the great submission, Rachel, and here's to the rest of your weekend holding pleasant surprises.

Primary Skull

Raye wrote: “I am sending you this schoolhouse skull because I love your site.”

Adjunct C says:

Here at Skull-A-Day we subscribe to a no skull left behind policy. If we do our jobs this skull will be able to move on to college rule in the future. Just this week around the web I am hearing people talk about their children going back to school. So it looks like summer is almost over. Thank you for submitting your work for us to share and keep us in mind when your skull graduates.

Oh and it is Friday so here is a notebook flashback from the original project.

[Flashback Friday] 5.10 - 336. (Beware of) Dog Fur Skull

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

336. (Beware of) Dog Fur Skull



It's the dog days of summer and I can't keep from thinking back to this piece. I'll bet every pooch out there would enjoy a summer hair cut to beat the heat. Let's give a shout out to the hot dogs that helped make this piece happen as well as the top dog himself, the Skull Master.


**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.

Tere Hernandez-Bonet - “Untitled”

On June 4, 2011 Skull-A-Day celebrated Skull Appreciation Day with an exhibit of over 100 skulls at Gallery 5 in Richmond, VA. If you didn't have a chance to make it to the gallery while the show was up, we now proudly present: "Skull Appreciation Day - The Exhibition".

Tere Hernandez-Bonet- “Untitled” $50.00


Please visit the artist’s exhibit page for information on if this work is available for purchase.


The 2011 Skull Appreciation Day - The Exhibition was a collective art show celebrating the 5th anniversary of Skull-A-Day.com and its tremendous audience of artists and readers.Throughout year 5.0 we will be featuring artwork from the show a few times a week. This is a chance to see all of the excellent skulls that were on display, and FOR SALE. Some of these pieces may still be available and this is a wonderful opportunity to own an original piece of skullriffic artwork. There are many well known artists who have contributed very reasonably priced works and many of them have donated their portion of the sale to benefit a great charity, the Richmond Peace Education Center.

Please take a moment to view all of the remarkable work that was created for the onset of this annual festivity. Your skull will appreciate you for showing it some love.

Dia de la Abby #58 - Feathered Skull

This skull was inspired by working on millinery recently.

If you don't know, I don't make only skulls. I make way more hair accessories. In the past year, I've taken up millinery, as a way to expand my skills. I've been hand sewing since I was a small child, so this wasn't a far reach of skill expanding, but it's a new application for my skills. I have a varied collection of feathers, but I've been working with black feathers recently. This is an arrangement of some of the black fluffy feathers. It's a bit reminiscent of Noah's 205. (Light As A) Feather Skull.


Every other Thursday in the 5.0 year, I will post my own Dia de la Abby creations   Every Thursday in the 4.0 year, I posted my Dia de la Abby creations and occasionally tutorials with instructions on how I made my pieces. 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  Facebook, Google+ and/or Twitter.

Wood Shavings Skull

Laura Marr of Flourish Creative said, "Andy and I were building a mantel and the wood shavings seemed to want to become a skull, sort of naturally fell in a semi-skull-like shape, although I obviously helped it out a little having fun playing with the pieces."

I like use of the natural curls of wood plane shavings. The curves remind me a bit of gingerbread edges on Victorian houses. They also remind me of peeling bark on a birch tree. I've always liked "helping" the pealing process and crumbling it into dust.

Skull-A-Day on tour: Schoolhouse Craft

Hey folks, just wanted to remind you that I am going to be leading a workshop at the upcoming Schoolhouse Craft event September 23-25 in Seattle, Washington.

If you're in the area I hope you'll sign up for this unique experience. My session will be about Generating Creative Energy and there will also be a whole bunch of other really great folks scheduled to teach a wide range of classes.

More details on the event and how to get your tickets can be found HERE.

I hope to see you there!

Gordon Stettinius- “Nappy Hour”

On June 4, 2011 Skull-A-Day celebrated Skull Appreciation Day with an exhibit of over 100 skulls at Gallery 5 in Richmond, VA. If you didn't have a chance to make it to the gallery while the show was up, we now proudly present: "Skull Appreciation Day - The Exhibition".

Gordon Stettinius- “Nappy Hour”

Gordon Stettinius- “Nappy Hour” $600.00

Gordon Stettinius' work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, his photography can be found in both private and public collections, and he is a winner of the 2009 Theresa Pollak award for Excellence in the Arts.


Please visit the artist’s exhibit page for information if this work is available for purchase.


The 2011 Skull Appreciation Day - The Exhibition was a collective art show celebrating the 5th anniversary of Skull-A-Day.com and its tremendous audience of artists and readers.

Throughout year 5.0 we will be featuring artwork from the show a few times a week. This is a chance to see all of the excellent skulls that were on display, and FOR SALE. Some of these pieces may still be available and this is a wonderful opportunity to own an original piece of skullriffic artwork. There are many well known artists who have contributed very reasonably priced works and many of them have donated their portion of the sale to benefit a great charity, the Richmond Peace Education Center.

Please take a moment to view all of the remarkable work that was created for the onset of this annual festivity. Your skull will appreciate you for showing it some love.

8-Bit Colorful Skull

Steve in Baltimore, MD the creator of 8bitliving.com wrote: “I came across Skull-A-Day while searching for a skull images to base my wall art on. I thought you may like the finished result.”

You can see more of the process of making this work HERE.


Levittown C says:

This a very interesting idea in artwork. A temporary piece that is constantly changing based on what interests you at the moment. The piece I am sure also dramatically changes by where you are in the room. I find the idea of low cost modular pieces that can be easily assembled a concept that brings the technicallity of the art into a realm that anyone could accomplish, an updated color by number for the digital age. Thank you for giving me an idea of what to do with my collection of paint swatches from the local paint store and for allowing us to share living in your 8bit world.

Amy Whitehurst- “ Captain Basura”

On June 4, 2011 Skull-A-Day celebrated Skull Appreciation Day with an exhibit of over 100 skulls at Gallery 5 in Richmond, VA. If you didn't have a chance to make it to the gallery while the show was up, we now proudly present: "Skull Appreciation Day - The Exhibition".

Amy Whitehurst- “ Captain Basura” $35.00

Photographer Amy Whitehurst is currently working on her 365 project which involves photographing a snowglobe everyday for a year.

Amy documented the creation of her piece for the exhibit HERE.

The 2011 Skull Appreciation Day - The Exhibition was a collective art show celebrating the 5th anniversary of Skull-A-Day.com and its tremendous audience of artists and readers.

Throughout year 5.0 we will be featuring artwork from the show a few times a week. This is a chance to see all of the excellent skulls that were on display, and FOR SALE. Some of these pieces may still be available and this is a wonderful opportunity to own an original piece of skullriffic artwork. There are many well known artists who have contributed very reasonably priced works and many of them have donated their portion of the sale to benefit a great charity, the Richmond Peace Education Center.

Please take a moment to view all of the remarkable work that was created for the onset of this annual festivity. Your skull will appreciate you for showing it some love.

Twosday Skull Paintings

Keith Finelli is here today to creep me out today with these killer skull paintings. It's not that I think they're spooky, but I keep getting this eerie feeling that they're staring at me.



And don't tell me you didn't think of this. Thanks for the submission, Keith.