"All Saints Night" at Mexico, well it's not...but something similar. The girl is holding a cempazuchitl bouquet, the traditional flower for this day. I made another drawing with the same subject in previous years, but this is the first "no dark or sad" one. Dia de Muertos is my favorite Holly Day: bread, cempazuchitl, dinner with our dead ones, "calaveras", altars...bread again...is delicious!
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"Dia de Muertos" means literally "Dead ones day", it's a Mexican holly day (November 02). That
day we build altars in home for our love ones who have died, the altars are decorated with cut paper (purple, pink,
black an orange)of many figures, candles, traditional bread, cempazuchitl flowers, food, water and many other symbolic
things, including sugar and chocolate skulls...oh, and of course, a photo of the deceased relative. Tradition says that
night, the dead will come and eat the offering of the altar. During the day or even night, the family visits the grave
of the deceased, clean it, place flowers and eat or dinner right there. Lot of people hire a band or mariachi to perform
favorite songs of the deceased.
That's how we remember our love ones.
Media: watercolor and ink over bond paper, background in Photoshop.
Time: 3 hours.
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This is gorgeous. I learned something from ur comment. It's pretty cool. ^^
merged: 11-04-2009 ~ 02:35pm
This is gorgeous. I learned something from ur comment. It's pretty cool. ^^
merged: 11-04-2009 ~ 02:39pm
This is gorgeous. I learned something from ur comment. It's pretty cool. ^^
I like the cutout look that you did with the background, and the pattern too.
Overall, I think this is a simple, but very charming work, and it's refreshing to see hand drawn lines instead of
the crisp digital ones.
Love the oranges and purples in this one. So complimentary! XD In addition, I like her umbrella (I like to collect bright/fun patterned umbrellas) as well as the dress design.
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