Aloha Tiki Tribe!
Check out may latest artist-blog-post - it's all bout the creation of the "KAAN TOOK" Tiki Mug.
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• KAAN TOOK - this project started as an artist-jam with my best art-buddy also living on the big Island...
- Jacob Medina -
Jacob Medina is a Tiki Artist of Mexican heritage livin' on the big island of Hawaii & painting Tiki Art with a heavy "Dia de los Muertos" flavor. (So many things I dig!) I knew we had to work on something together.
• I saw a concept drawing he had made. A drawing of Kaan Took. I couldn't stop thinking about this weird tiki creature.
Kaan Took
He told me it was a character his father used to tell him stories about when he was little.
His Dad said KAAN TOOK was an ancient Mayan King with supernatural powers. Sometimes he seemed more like a mythological god.
Sometimes a great warrior of the Mayan Empire. Sometimes a powerful priest of the snake god Kukulkan.
I never found out if Kaan Took was real. Was the "Snake-King" was a pre-historical figure, or an actual Meso-American / Mexican legend, or perhaps a bed time story his father made up to scare & thirll little Jacob.
GOOGLE the name KAAN TOOK and you get various vague Messo-American people, places, and things.
But really who cares?
It's not the point.
The point is KAAN TOOK fairly drips Low-Brow !
The point is... it's a GREAT story, it's an awesome character, an' ready-made to perfection for habitation in some Low-Brow Tiki Art.
• I knew I had to talk about this totally unique tiki-creature / being / king... some how... in my Art.
• Jacob and I did a painting together of KAAN TOOK. • It was part of my last show at La Luz: "Mean Green Jelly Bean". It sold quickly.
https://www.tikishark.com/pages/mean-green-jelly-bean
• Then, we went on and designed a KAAN TOOK Tiki Mug.
• We felt we had more to say about this ancient Meso-American Snake-King of the dead.
( That, plus we had many requests to create A KAAN TOOK tiki mug. )
• The Limited Edition SOLD OUT - ( signed by both artists, numbered, and certificated ) - that edition SOLD OUT in about one hour.
• A further "open ended" (kinda') edition is on the way soon (-ish ) .
• "KAAN TOOK" is coming!
The second part is not signed by both artists, not numbered, and no, they don't have a cool Certificate of Authenticity.
However, they WILL be just as full of supernatural mythological Low-Brow Tiki Art mana as the first swanky limited edition.
So, down on yer knees mortals, - get ready to a tremble in fear, - dare ye' enter the taboo temple of the snake god Kukulkanl, - and raise your mugs of rum & blood to the mighty K A A N T O O K !
Check out my latest Artist's blog about the making of the KAAN TOOK Tiki Mug. M A H A L O & A L O H A
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