Untitled {Red Birds}As many of my friends know, I love DVDs, I love watching them, listening to them while I work, playing commentaries and featuresttes, I don't listen to music as much anymore as listen to commentary on DVD, music can be incredibly distracting, changing songs, playlists etc, things may not fit the mood of what I'm working on, it just gets in the way, I spend more time walking to the stereo/laptop instead of putting in solid "easel time". What I love is the "Voice in the room" aspect of DVD commentaryI find it relaxing since I spend so much time working alone.
Similarly I think what I enjoy is the idea of process and access to the process of creation on a DVD commentary, I do like to show work in progress here at the Shoppe site from sketch to completion. Shoppe emails have also told me that you out there like to see it also. I started to make a list of certain film stills that I enjoy the composition, find inspiring etc. This is the first, the still, which I have absolutely zero permission to use on this site {apologies} is from "Fight Club" it's a small moment but compositionally it blows my mind, so I adapted it to suit my needs. About two years ago I'd started a painting of a flock of red birds on a white ground, it wasn't working, there was an element missing, once I saw this sequence from Fight Club, the lightbulb {or whatever it is in my head} popped. Over on Facebook of course people start immediately sending "Flock of Seagulls" jokes and rips about the Eaton Centre, but that's fine, if that's what comes out of you, I still want to hear it.
I'm still doing a couple of small touch ups on this piece, nothing too significant, some highlights and toning, nothing radical, I'm happy with everything that's here.
thank the lord the sun has come out,
A.S Hahn
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I love your work!
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