Woman with ScissorsThe weekends really aren't weekends at the Shoppe right now friends, the weekends consist of at least eighteen hours of painting and sketching. As I've also been working another job I manage to do about twelve hours of painting during the week, so the light math is thirty hours of painting a week, plus an average thirty five hour work week. The man has some stamina folks.
Q. Why is that ?
A. I wait all year for this, as soon as I have the hard dates for my Cameron House show, I take all the notes, photos and sketches that I"ve been jamming into moleskines and cramming into sketchbooks and I start laying it out. It's all about preparation, some people may think that I paint quickly, it does look that way, but it's the preparation that gets me there. Once I'm ready it's time to get it all out.
Q. But wait, I thought you despised sketching !
A. Oh yes that I do, I can't stand it, if you've see me at any of the local pubs, you'll know that I take the first pint to scrawl a whole bunch of stuff down and then can relax to read the paper and chat.
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I do have more to say about this, but I need to go for my daily constitutional, take care
A.S Hahn
