Day of the Dead -Preview

Only a little over week and it will be time for

 Dia de Los Muertos - Day of the Dead.

 I get a bit of an early start and made this tag, using red rosin
paper, gessoed and textured with cheese cloth.

 Colour laid on with acrylic paint and oil pastels. Then I used the oil pastels on a xerox copy of a sugar skull, after cutting out various designs on it so the background would show through. It was affixed with gel medium.

 

Two final touches - a glass skull and a mix of Mexi-coloured

 yarn and fibers through the hole at the top.