MARKING PERIOD 1 - Sarah-Charlotte Brown Journal

1. Explain in your own words what a sugar skull is. - A sugar skull is a decorated skull, often made out of sugar, that is used as decorations in celebrations. 

2. Explain how you came up with the design for your mask/skull.- When we first got this project, I looked up sugar skulls on google images to see what they usually looked like. From this I got the idea for my design. I tried to make it similar to the traditional looking ones, but also how I wanted it. 

3. Explain the process from beginning to the end, the process that you went from having   no mask to having a finished and painted mask.- First I designed my skull. Then I helped someone else plaster their face. When doing this I realized that the plaster made my skin break out. Because of that, I did not plaster my own face, but used someone else’s. After I had my skull, I waited a day for it to dry and then painted it with my design. 

Below are pictures of my mask, the design, as well as some other work from this quarter. 

The drawing of the girl is based of of this.