Theatre Series

The Lighting Designer

sixteen x twenty inches

acrylic on canvas

SOLD.

more on this later.

Had to use most of the day to continue touch ups and corrections on the last two pieces from the "Flight" series, there were aspects of both pieces that were driving me batshit and could not let them leave the studio as they were. It's 2:42 and I feel much better about both of them and can now move onto "the Liberty Boot" project which will now eat my entire weekend. So I hope the weather sucks even worse than today so I won't be tempted to leave the house until I have to work at the pub.

A.S Hahn

Best laid plans.

Always feel like a bit of a liar when I post something and then I realize that what I think is possible ends up being impossible, I may have a couple of pieces for Friday, but instead of finishing them all, I started a new piece for the Liberty Show, so that's six on the go right now. I also realize that I originally intended to do 10 pieces for the show, but if I want them all to be at a quality that I am content with I can only do nine.

While I'm throwing myself into this new venture, I would reccomend buying something.

Saturday Update: It's great having a short break to look at the six pieces, I am confident that I can finish one a day for the next six days (starting Monday) and have them posted, then work on the next three. This is the best route that I can take, luckily each of the six is more than halfway completed so I should be able to get through them in fine style, it's the lettering that kills me, and the layers, they kill me too. Stay tuned for some hot cowboy boot action.

A.S.H

Lots of news...cont'd.

Hey folks, hop on over to my online comic "Any How Town" to read about why I'm even bothering to do an online comic. See the links section.

best, A.S Hahn

Oh and I almost forgot, click the One Thousand Fiances Tag, I forgot how much I love those paintings until I put them in a row together, someone should buy the remaining three as a set.

MY EYES! OH GOD, MY EYES! or 4:34 pm

It's usually around this time Shoppers that I have to get up from the easel for a good long walk. I usually sit/stand for about seven hours a day when I have a series to work on (with a short break for lunch, coffee refill, run to the store etc.) sometimes I'll go longer if things are going well, it's the eyes that get strained. Not my back, not my neck, no real head aches, but my eyes start to dry out and feel a bit like a rubber band about to snap (or any cartoon simile equivalent.).

I have five of the Libery Boot pieces on the go and am enjoying their development immensely. It's a stylistic choice to do them more as posters than paintings, requiring finer lines, more thin layers of colour than I am used to, and a straight graphic plan as opposed to the organic form that comes to me so quickly with painting.

My intention is to have five of them finished and posted for your gandiferous praise by Friday barring any physical interruption (working for someone else) or spiritual deflation (cheques not arriving when they should).

So we'll talk soon,
A.S Hahn

From back in the day

Below is a link sent by my buddy Sammy, back in University (and I mean way back in the Winters Residence days) I was doing the occasional comic inspired by things me and my crew, "the Abjeerks" said on pub night, here's the link, bear in mind I was doing this over twelve years ago, in a pub surrounded by my pals. Who are still my pals to this day. I'll write more on this later...

http://web.archive.org/web/20030501143040/www.globalserve.net/~ratpack/Abjerks/abjerks.htm

Upcoming Events

Woman with Wings

twelve x twelve inches, acrylic on canvas

$120.00

Man and Woman with Hammers (Dyptych)

each piece eighteen x eighteen inches

dyptych $600.00

Hey there Shoppers, I have some dates for you

First up in for the month of April we will be at the Cameron House (Queen, 1 bl. W of Spadina, building in covered in giant ants, how could you miss it ?) with the Liberty Boot Co. show, "Pop Goes the Cowboy". No date for the Opening but I assume it will be the first Saturday in April, The Cameron Family Singers will be playing, no doubt. If you scroll here you can see, works in progress for the show and there's a link to see the Liberty Boot Co. website which is a great site to zip around on.

For the month of May the mad craft shoppe celebrates it's 4 year Anniversary with a SALE at the Press Club (850 Dundas St.W ) the party will be Saturday May 9th, from 7-10 get there early as work will be leaving in quick fashion, check the Tab, "Fables", "Ladies of the Flowers" "Sets" to see what is available for purchase. Eventually I'll put up a posting of work and the sale prices but that will have to wait a day or two.

Sunday, this Sunday from 4-10 I'll be slinging ale at the Cloak and Dagger come by to see Banjo Frank and his Bluegrass Troopers, (I just made that name up, except for the Banjo Frank part) , it will be a party

I don't know what's up with the link to my email, but if you need to contact me it's still
madcraftshoppe@live.com but clicking on it won't get you far.

all the best,
A.S Hahn

Flight, commissioned project

Top "The Blessing at Kittyhawk"

bottom "The Offering"

each piece twenty four x twenty four inches

acrylic on canvas, from the series "Flight"

Here are the last two pieces for the commissioned series "Flight", it has been a great pleasure for me working on this series, as I'm sure I've mentioned before flying and its many aspects features very prominently in my work particularly in the "Fables" series. These four pieces use a good bit of the "language" I used in Fables, the masked figures and red airplanes have been featured in my work since probably 1997, the giant women of "The New Dress" and "The Tea Party" (as seen above) from Fables occurs again, the above image startles and surprised me as a concept, incredibly happy with the surreal element of the piece.

Originally I'd intended the four pieces to have a continued narrative, I am very happy that I changed my mind, after much sketching and deliberating and discussion, and just stayed with the concept of "Flight" as the unifying idea behind the pieces.

All four are framed in walnut stained "Floating" frames that look quite sharp. The next step will be hanging the work in the client's house, which we are going to do together to pick the best location (s) in the residence.

A.S Hahn

Lost Man, Found Dog #4

Lost Man, Found Dog #4 ,

from the continuing series "Small Towns"

Twenty Four x Twenty Four inches

four hundred dollars

I haven't posted a Small Town in a quite a while, people ask if I still do them, the answer is yes, commission one from me today, but first buy this one, they look great in pairs.

madcraftshoppe@live.com

A.S Hahn

promise to fix this link this week, contact me via your provider.

Mad Craft Shoppe visits Hawaii...

We are everywhere baby, everywhere but getting around to fixing the email link, so contact us through your provider. Many thanks to Tyson for sending theses photos along.

More to come this week, but I will also be taking the job of Sunday bartender at the Cloak and Dagger, which I have promptly changed the position to "Celebrity Bartender". Once we're on our feet we will inform you of all kinds of Sunday Afternoon events, that I will be organizing.

all the best,

A.S Hahn

Liberty Boot Project, Cont'd.

Top are the Sunflower's done in a beige tone that I quite like will probably do a pretty straight ahead cowgirl theme for them.

The style below are called "Butterfly '06" and they are incredible to behold, for the image, since the boot will be displayed beside it, I decided to do a different take and have the "monarch fairy" perched on the boot, this piece is coming along but doing all that plotting on the lettering to give it a Grateful Dead vibe is going to be exhausting.

The show will be hung at the Cameron House on the Twenty Eighth of March, I think, here's a link to the Liberty Boot Company, don't be alarmed when the music player starts, to turn it off click the red button the amp.

http://www.libertybootco.com/default.aspx

have to get back at it,

A.S Hahn

I haven't fixed my link yet, so email me through your provider for the time being

madcraftshoppe@live.com