Sugar Skulls & Screen Printing

This past week my students and I had fun learning about the cultural history and tradition of Dia de Los Muertos.

While exploring the annual celebration that has taken place in Latin and Mexican cultures for centuries, we learned much about their popular colorful decorations and artwork.

In particular, we worked with making sugar skulls.

In order to create our designs, I taught the kids how to take a vector artwork (our sugar skull outline), create a transparency, develop it on a printing screen, and screen print onto pieces of fabric and t-shirts using fabric printing ink. We heat set the ink and then colored the designs with bright colors using Sharpie markers.

Here are the young masters of creativity at work:

Summer 2012 in Review...Post #4 Screen Printing for a Cause

My first opportunity to use my screen printing skills for a great cause came toward the beginning of this summer while doing early moring boot camp with my friends from First Anna. We were training hard with our fearless leaders Crystal and Andrea (who are awesome by the way!) to do a 5K run that would raise money for a very special missionary. This missionary, Mandi, is a friend of theirs who sold everything she owned and followed the Lord's leading to move to Cambodia and share the Gospel and the Love of Jesus.

 

So the first project was creating t-shirts to wear for our run.

 

 

 

To learn more about the ministry and work that Mandi is doing please visit her website http://www.mandisilvers.com or follow her on facebook http://facebook.com/mandi.silvers1.

 

 

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My second screen printing for a cause project came just recently when I had the opportunity to design a t-shirt to promote a very exciting event.... our fall 2012 Women's Conference. I'm so thrilled to be a part of this conference where there will be some amazing speakers, fellowship and worship.

 

*Side Note: I will be leading a painting class for the women at the conference, yay! 

Check out more information on this event

 

http://www.firstanna.org/10399/event/event_id/311874/Womens-Conference

 

(and pre-register if you are in the area and would like to attend!)