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Link to the Photos taken for this assignment: Here

Number Meaning

One:
One is often associated with being the best (I am number one)
"The Pythagoreans referred to number one as the "monad". It symbolized the creator. It was a male number. Number one represented strength." (www.mysticalnumbers.com)

Two

"Two is the number of balance, but also the number of conflict and opposition.

Male and Female	Light and Dark	Day and Night
Good and Bad	Life and Death	Sun and Moon

(www.mysticalnumbers.com)

"The symbolic meaning of number Two is kindness, balance, tact, equalization, and duality" (http://www.whats-your-sign.com)

Three
"The spiritual meaning of number Three deals with magic, intuition, fecundity, and advantage. The number Three invokes expression, versatility, and pure joy of creativity. Three is also a time identifier as it represents Past, Present and Future." (http://www.whats-your-sign.com)
"Three was considered the number of harmony, wisdom and understanding" (www.mysticalnumbers.com)


Four
Four is an unlucky number in Chinese, due to it's similar sound to the chinese word for 'death', although this pronounciation can difer with the different dialects.
"Number four is the number of stability, order and completion of justice. Number four is the number of the earth and mankind." (www.mysticalnumbers.com)

Of these, I'm going to go with the number 4, since that is the only number I can find that has 'unlucky' connotations.  Also, since I am making a skull, the 'death' association seems appropriate.

Bibliography

Wikipedia, viewed 20th September <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_in_Chinese_culture#Unlucky_numbers>
Mystical Numbers, viewed 20th Sept <http://www.mysticalnumbers.com/Number_2.html>
What's your sign, viewed 20th September <http://www.whats-your-sign.com/spiritual-meaning-of-numbers.html>

Día de los Muertos

There can be nothing more dystopic than Día de los Muertos, The day of the dead (actually, I lie. There can be plenty of things more Dystopic than colourful candy skulls, but we're going to ignore all that)

Rejoicing Quietus

by Thaneeya McArdle

 
Día de los Muertos is a Mexican Holiday in celebration and honour of the dead. The skulls are decorated in bright colours, which is what I think is interesting:

 Bibliography

Wikipedia, viewed 20th September <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead> 
Art is Fun, viewed 20th September <http://www.art-is-fun.com/day-of-the-dead-art.html>

Artist - Skullgrrl

Just a few images of something that another artist has done that I think is pretty neat. Artist is known as skullgrrl online.

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The art seems to be dystopic, and the combination of skulls and the plush medium is an interesting combination of cute and the concept of death.

Bibliography

Flickr, viewed 15-09-2011 <http://www.flickr.com/photos/29033586@N08/6129411692/#/>
Deviantart, viewed 15-09-2011 <http://skullgrrl.deviantart.com/>

Reference Image Post 2

Some more reference images, this time for the painting that I want to draw on the feathers.

Gargoyle Images

Just some refernce images of gargoyles. I still need to decide on a design for the Gargoyle.

Architecture References

Reference Image Post

Just some reference images of skulls. I still have to figure out how I'm going to incorporate the teeth into my sculpture.

Horse Skull

Camel Skull

Badger Skull

Cat Skull

Dog Skull

Ram's skull

This is pretty neat, it's a skull made out of melted cassette tapes and the 

horns appear to be made out of the tape inside.

Link to webpage

Cow Skull

All images viewed on the 15th-9-2011

Feather Painting

Just some quick links about feather painting:
Tutorials:
http://novawuff.deviantart.com/art/Feather-Painting-Tutorial-52542510
http://www.ehow.com/how_4870125_paint-feathers.html

Images:

All links viewed 9-9-2011