Description

Retablo artists use simple wood tools and a plaster made with potato starch, to bring colorful, hand-shaped hand-painted figurines to life. Dia de los Muertos is a celebration of family, reuniting the deceased with the living....connecting the past to the present. While there is sincere reverence for the deceased, the festivities are also engaged in with humor and fun. Muertos artists create popular figures of calaveras in tin, clay, paper, scene boxes and other materials to decorate altars.