Duende #3

Duende #3. Carved wood, pounded copper pieces for eyes, goat horns, and horse hair, painted with acrylic paints. Part of the artists' original CuCui Series (spanish for the Bogeyman). Artist describes these "demons" to be good demons, pretending to be bad to scare the "heck" out of you if your are misbehaving. Inspired by the Japanese style demon masks.

Full mask of male figure with goat horns and dark brown hair. Expression of mask is angry. Eyebrows painted brown and carved to point upward on the sides of the forehead. Carved V shaped wrinkle and furrowed brows in center for forehead. Eyes are pounded copper circles with holes punched through center and white paint on the sides. Separated mustache extends to sides of mouth and then goes downwards, painted brown. Mouth carved in a wide growling expression, with lower lip having two downward facing points. Lips painted red. Full set of top and bottom teeth are painted a light yellow. Teeth edges are all very flat and smooth except the incisors and lower canines which are long and pointy. Lower lip has a patch of hair carved in an upside down triangle shape, also painted brown. Overall mask painted a reddish/orange color.