During my Sugar Skull workshop you will learn many things:
- Design the sugar skulls for 3 dolls as well as the basics to develop your own style.
- Learn how to use acrylics as if you were painting with watercolors, light and simple.
- Learn to design the sugar skull with a Sharpie
- Learn multiple ways to decorate the Sugar skull from two tone black and brown to color
- Painting and Finishing three different Sugar Skull Spirit Art Dolls
- Learn to assemblage a figure supported by a kitchen whisk
- Lean how to weave a basket or nest with yarn and the whisk
- Learn to build the body with tattered cloth, embellishments, yarn, silk flowers and fibers
- Learn to find beautiful materials from unexpected places
- Learn how to make jewelry for your own doll with wire and beads
- Learn about the origin of the Sugar Skull, Dia de los Muertos tradition.
- Plus a "secret" bonus project!
Optional Kit available at Etsy: (while supplies last)
DVD: Available for pre-oder (ships March 2020)
Spirit Art Dolls & Sugar Skulls
Griselda Tello
Session Two
July 16 - August 26, 2019